The Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Social Justice of University of Hyderabad planned to take out a march in New Delhi on February 23 demanding justice for Rohith Vemula suicide. The students, workers, cultural activists, intellectuals will participate in the rally from Ambedkar Bhawan to Jantar Mantar.

The JAC comprising student’s group is demanding a legislation ‘Rohith Act’ end caste discrimination in education. They said that the Act should punish Central Ministers Smriti Irani and Bandaru Dattatreya, Vice Chancellor Appa Rao, BJP Legislator Ramachandra Rao, University Official Alok Pandey and ABVP Leader Susheel Kumar for what they call ‘institutional murder’ of Rohith.

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JAC alleges to remove Appa Rao from the post of Vice-Chancellor, provide job for a family member of Rohith in the University, a compensation of Rs. 50 lakh, withdrawal of false police cases against the five research scholars, appointment by a special public prosecutor in the case and a judicial inquiry into all cases of discrimination and harassment of Dalit, Adivasi, OBC, religious minority students in all higher educational institutions.

“It has been a month since the institutional murder of Rohith Vemula at the hands of BJP, ABVP and the HCU administration. Rohith was one of the five Dalit research scholars expelled from the hostel and faced social boycott for raising his voice against injustice perpetrated by the fascist and brahmanical forces in the country,” JAC said in a statement.

They questioned that the Government instead of doing justice to Rohith and his family, people involved in this have received promotions and were shielded from judicial scrutiny.