Pawan faults BJP on handling Rohith suicide

​Hyderabad: Jana Sena party leader Pawan Kalyan, continuing his tirade against the BJP on his twitter handle, on Friday faulted the BJP for the manner in which it had handled the issue of Rohit Vemula who committed suicide in January.

The actor suggested that Vemula was after all protesting in a 'democratic' manner, but the party big wigs took it on a personal level. Pawan said, “There is no doubt that ‘Rohith Vemula’ hated BJP like many millions of individuals.

But that doesn’t give them a licence to harass individuals who don’t align with them or are against them; and, that too, when his protest was within ‘democratic means’. This applies to any group or party, not to BJP alone.”

“Even if Rohith Vemula had said something in haste about saffronisation with his university rival groups, the ‘Centre’ could have just seen it as a part of the ongoing students’ ideological disagreement.

And, if their rivalry was causing law & order issues, then they could have let the concerned authority to enforce the disciplinary measures.

But the Centre took it personally in this case for reasons unknown,” he tweeted. Mentioning that it was the punishment meted out to Rohith Vemula through suspension and alienation from the campus that drove him to suicide,

Pawan said that, instead a proper student counselling with a humane approach would have saved an intelligent student who was philosophical in nature.

“The most tragic part of Rohith Vemula suicide was when anti-BJP parties were busy trying to gain political mileage out of it, BJP and its allies were busy proving that Rohith was not a Dalit.

But all of them have forgotten to answer: ‘How to prevent such young lives from committing suicides in future? Out of despair, disappointment and resentment..” he tweeted.