Dalit student's death: HRD ministry dispatches panel to find facts

NEW DELHI: Following an uproar over the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula in the Hyderabad Central University, the Union human resource development ministry dispatched a two-member fact-finding committee to the varsity on Monday.

The committee has been asked to look into facts on ground and report back about the same to the ministry, HRD ministry spokesperson Ghanshyam Goel said. On the committee are Shakila T Shamsu and Surat Singh from the ministry’s Higher Education Department. The committee is expected to return with the report in two days, a ministry source said.

Telangana BJP President G Kishan Reddy rejected Congress demands for dismissal of Dattatreya suggesting this as an “internal administrative” issue of the university where “BJP has nothing to do with it”. “Bandaru Dattatreya merely forwarded a letter from the students to HRD minister about the need to correct the administration (of University). Except that there we (BJP) have nothing to do with it,” Reddy told ET over phone.