Cong ‘politicising’ issue: Venkaiah

Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Wednesday accused the Congress of indulging in “cheap politics” over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar at the Hyderabad University, Rohith Vemula, for which an FIR had been registered against Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya.

“Congress is engaging in cheap politics,” he said at the international airport on his way to Uppala in Kasaragod district of Kerala to flag off BJP’s Kerala march. He said nine Dalit students had committed suicide at the university when the UPA was in power and nobody was talking about it now.

Naidu alleged that tje Congress was always trying to delay and disrupt the Central government’s development projects. “The Opposition is following a 4D policy of disruption, diversion, delay and defamation,” he said, adding that their only aim was to "defame" Prime Minister Narendra Modi.