Dalit student's suicide: Twitterati slam Smriti Irani, call her a puppet in the hands of RSS
New Delhi, Jan 19: Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani was a trending topic on Twitter on Tuesday as the Tweeple wants her to be sacked after the Dalit scholar's suicide.
On Sunday, a Dalit scholar, Rohit Vemula committed suicide by hanging himself in the hostel of University of Hyderabad after being expelled by the University board, along with four other Dalit students.
The issue took a political turn with allegations that the extreme action was a result of discrimination against dalit students at the behest of Union Minister Bandaru Dattatreya , who had written a letter to HRD Minister Smriti Irani, seeking action against their "anti-national acts".
It was reportedly HRD Ministry and Dattatreya's nudge that reportedly lead to Rohit Vemula's expulsion last year.
Though Irani said the government neither intervenes in the functioning of the university nor does it have any administrative control over it, Twitter seems to be angry and wants her to be sacked.
Here are few of the reactions:
Role
of
ministers
is
policy
formulations,
not
interfering
in
administrative
matters.
#SackSmritiIrani
—
Abdulla
Madumoole
(@AMadumoole)
January
19,
2016
Smriti
Irani
never
visited
any
college.
She
doesn't
know
what
it
takes
to
reach
to
phd
level.
#sacksmritiirani
—
Sudhanshu
(@Sudshek)
January
19,
2016
Smriti
Irani
is
busy
wasting
time
in
Amethi,
no
time
for
HRD.Just
promoting
ABVP
and
RSS
in
the
campuses.#SackSmritiIrani
—
Vinay
Dokania
(@vinaydokania)
January
19,
2016
#SackSmritiIrani
so
that
she
can
go
back
&
finish
her
Schooling
properly.
—
Swami
(@mohitraj)
January
19,
2016
Murder
by
a
Manuvadi
administation
and
saffron
groups.#SackSmritiIrani#SackSmritiIranihttps://t.co/Y0TUo8eDEz
—
Syed
Maqbool
(@maqbool_sm)
January
19,
2016
Is
there
a
better
proof
for
BJP
being
anti
Dalit
and
Anti
poor
#SackSmritiIrani
—
Abel
Sabu
(@abelsabu1)
January
19,
2016
#SackSmritiIrani
Modi
Govt
is
at
WAR
wid
even
Students.
FTII,
JNU,
DU
and
now
Hyd
University.
India,
Next
Time
Vote
WISELY!
—
जयश्री
(@AAPkSaath)
January
19,
2016
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