With Modi government under attack over a Hyderabad University student's suicide, BJP today accused the Ambedkar Students Association (ASA) of being a part of 'Hate-India campaign' chain and alleged ultra-Left bodies have created a 'camouflage' student fora to conceal 'nefarious objectives'.
Rohith Vemula, a Dalit research scholar who committed suicide, belonged to ASA.
BJP also attacked Congress for joining Leftists to create an 'orchestrated campaign' against the Modi government and was making Hyderabad varsity a big issue keeping in view Hyderabad corporation elections in mind. It asked why going to Malda, Kashmir, Pathankot was not a priority for Rahul Gandhi.
BJP general secretary P Muralidhar Rao claimed police investigations have revealed that the caste of both the parents of Vemula was Vaddera, which is an OBC in Telanagana.
"Organising Beef Festival, celebrating Mahisasur, Hiranya Kashyap, conducting prayers for Yakub Memon's death, supporting terrorism in various parts of the country shows for what these organisations stand for. Divisive forces organise these in campuses. Ideologies which want to see India as weak are promoting Divide India Campaigns. ASA in HCU is part of this chain," Rao said on Twitter.
Answering queries on social media on "Activities on campuses in support of anti-national forces", Rao said "Great conspiracy to malign Modi government as anti-dalit. In last one and half years relentlessly, they tried and were exposed repeatedly. HCU is the latest in sequence. For Congress and other pseudo secular forces, this time too they got exposed."
He said "Whole campaign is based on falsehood. Congress, Leftists have joined to create an orchestrated campaign against Modi government."
"All over the country ultra-Left organisations have created camouflage student forums to conceal nefarious objectives," the BJP leader said.
In reply to a question, Rao said "Police investigation has revealed his parents belong to Vaddera caste which comes under OBC in Andhra & Telangana." Asked again, he confirmed "Yes, both belong to Vaddera it is on record by the parents."
He said Rohith's suicide note is "self-revealing." "Connecting suicide to ideological adversaries is baseless and all the forces will be exposed in days to come," Rao said.
