Need law to fight discrimination, says Rahul on Vemula anniversary

NEW DELHI: On the 10th decease day of Dalit pupil Rohith Vemula connected Saturday, Congress person Rahul Gandhi stressed the request for an anti-discrimination law, saying Dalit younker proceed to look favoritism and different challenges connected campuses. Vemula, a 26-year-old pupil of University of Hyderabad, died by termination connected Jan 17, 2016, pursuing alleged harassment.In a station successful Hindi connected X, Rahul said, "And today? Has the world for Dalit younker changed? The aforesaid contempt connected campus, the aforesaid isolation successful hostels, the aforesaid feeling of inferiority successful classrooms, the aforesaid unit - and sometimes, the aforesaid death. Because caste is inactive the biggest admittance signifier successful this country."That is wherefore Rohith Vemula Act is not conscionable a slogan but a necessity, helium said. "This combat is not conscionable successful Parliament, it is simply a combat of the youngsters connected campuses and 'it is our fight'," Rahul asserted."We request an anti-discrimination instrumentality now," helium emphasised. The Congress govts successful Karnataka and Telangana were successful the process of implementing the instrumentality arsenic soon arsenic possible, helium added.Meanwhile, Congress connected Saturday lashed retired astatine the Modi govt, with enactment wide secretary, in-charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh saying successful a station connected X, "In yet different stroke to the self-proclaimed Vishwaguru's self-boastful diplomacy, the US Central Command has conscionable issued a connection saying that US and Pakistani Army soldiers person completed associated grooming exercises codenamed 'Inspired Gamble'."

Ramesh highlighted that US President Donald Trump "himself has repeatedly expressed his heavy admiration for Field Marshal Asim Munir, whose inflammatory and communally provocative remarks had provided the contiguous backdrop to the Pakistan-orchestrated panic attacks successful Pahalgam connected April 22, 2025."