Rohith suicide: NSUI gherao Smriti’s residence; charge her with lying in Parliament

27 February, New Delhi

Members of the National Students’ Union of India (NSUI) today protested outside the residence of Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, charging her with lying in Parliament on Dalit scholar Rohith Vemulas suicide and deliberately misleading the nation.

Addressing protestors, NSUI president Roji M John said, ”We condemn the manner in which HRD Minister Smriti Irani twisted the facts related to Rohith Vemulas case and gave a highly dramatic speech full of lies.”

He said, ”We want to remind the HRD Minister that Parliament is not a TV set where she can make such speeches without having a fact-check. By doing so she has demeaned the dignity of the respected institution. We demand that Ms Irani should come out and apologise to the people of this country.

”The HRD minister’s campus politics is a stamp of how ruthlessly she is hell bent on clamping down the voices of dissent.

“The Minister has not only been economical with the truth but has also misled Parliament on the unfortunate suicide of a young Dalit student,” the leader said.