Sack Vice-Chancellor if your tears are real, Rahul Gandhi tells PM Narendra  Modi

#Bundelkhand : Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. On Friday, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi  broke his silence over the issue and expressed agony on the suicide of Vemula.

Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his emotional remarks on Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula, who allegedly hanged himself to death after he was expelled from his hostel, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday challenged the Prime Minister to sack the Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad University if his “tears are real.”

“The PM gave a speech where he expressed grief and agony over the death of the scholar. People say he even had tears…I would ask him, ‘If you are saddened, if your tears are real, then act against the V-C who crushed and intimated that boy and sack him,” Mr. RahulGandhi said.

On Friday, while addressing a convocation ceremony here Mr. Narendra  Modi broke his silence over the issue and expressed agony on the suicide of Vemula.

Mr. PM #NarendraModi  should “stop talking and start doing,” Mr #Rahul Gandhi said, accusing the NDA government of trying to suppress the voice of students.

“The nation’s poor and Dalit are looking up at Mr. Modi seeking answers, will our PM take action,” the Amethi MP said. Mr. Gandhi visited Hyderabad recently to show solidarity with the grieving family and friends of Vemula.

Taking a swipe at the the Vice Chancellor, Mr. Gandhi said that to further a particular ideology a student was compelled to commit suicide. “Weak sections are being oppressed. Be it a farmer in Bundelkhand or a Dalit youth in Hyderabad. Whenever you see a weak oppressed, you will find Congress party and Rahul Gandhi,” Mr. Rahul Gandhi told farmers after a 7-km padhyatra in Mahoba district of drought-hit Bundelkhand region.

The Uttar Pradesh government has declared 51 out of 74 districts in the State as drought affected and some of the worst affected areas fall in Bundelkhand.