Spearhead of Vemula movement quits SFI; BJP trains guns at Congress and Left

BJP MP and joint secretary Bhupendra Yadav said, “The Left and the Congress are using their student leaders to fulfill their individual political interests.”

Sahu was the protagonist of the agitation at the University of Hyderabad after Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula’s alleged suicide. Sahu condemned the role of Joint Action Committee (JAC) over their irreconcilable investigation process. Sahu claimed that he was being isolated unlike Vemula.

 

“My loneliness and isolation are affecting my studies and also apparently driving me towards the unfortunate path undertaken by Rohith Vemula. I think coming into the open and getting distanced from the wrong way would save me from the doom”, he stated in his resignation letter.

Sahu alleged “opportunistic politics of the SFI, irrelevance of the movement and false propaganda carried out by certain students” as reasons for his resignation. He said that the students’ agitation was “funded by the Congress, Left and other opportunist forces of the country”.

Sources said Sahu was expelled by the SFI after the allegations he levelled against the outfit, maligning it and the movement for justice for Vemula. They accused him of ‘parroting’ ABVP’s claims.

The BJP has also alleged that both Left and Congress manipulate vulnerable issues according to their political interest. “The Left and the Congress are responsible for JNU tension also. They both have politicized the issue unlike Rohith Vemula’s suicide. 

They are responsible for escalating both JNU and University of Hyderabad tension. The conflict between DSU and SFI defines the entire scenario,” Yadav said.