Rohith Vemula’s suicide has hit headlines once again after a media report unveiled how Vemula’s mother Radhika Vemula was promised money to attend some anti-government rallies.
Rohith Vemula’s suicide has hit headlines once again after a media report unveiled how Vemula’s mother Radhika Vemula was promised money to attend some anti-government rallies.
The BJP on Wednesday accused the Opposition of deceiving and exploiting the sentiments of Vemula’s mother for petty political gains and also sought apology from Congress president Rahul Gandhi over this.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal cited the reports that Vemula's mother Radhika Vemula had accused Indian Union Muslim League, a Kerala-based party, of not giving her the promised Rs 20 lakh to attend political rallies where false allegations against the BJP were levelled.
"How long opposition parties will continue with such abhorrent tactics for petty political gains. The condition of the family (Vemula) was not good and she was promised money for political reasons so that she could share stage with opposition leaders and level allegations," he told a press conference.
Baseless and wrong allegations were levelled, Goyal said.
He said Rahul Gandhi had also shared staged with her and claimed that it should be found out what allurements were offered to her.
"The Congress president should apologise," he said, claiming that opposition parties have been unmasked for their politics based on lies.
The BJP condemns this low level of politics and political misuse of such an incident, Goyal said referring to the suicide. "People will not forget these parties," he said.
However, Radhika Vemula has gone on record and said that ‘it's true that Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) promised to provide me with money, but they haven't used me for political gains. It was my wish to speak against PM Modi & if needed I will speak again in any of their meeting.’
Rohith Vemula, a PhD scholar at University of Hyderabad, had committed suicide in the campus on January 17, 2016. Opposition parties had blamed Vemula's alleged harassment by groups affiliated to the BJP and the RSS for his suicide, and had launched protests against the saffron party.
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