Several students here today took out a candlelight vigil to protest against the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and the government crackdown on students in Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The event, held in Colaba in south Mumbai, was jointly organised by Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), Progressive Students' Forum (PSF) and Student Federation of India (SFI).
The march began at Regal Cinema and the participants made their way towards the Gateway of India.
DYFI also organised a screening of the controversial documentary "Muzaffarnagar Abhi Baki Hai", whose screening was allegedly disrupted by Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of RSS, in Hyderabad Central University, where Vemula studied.
"Political interference in campuses of educational institutions is wrong. It was not long ago when we were demanding justice for Vemula, and now we see our friends from JNU being declared anti-national," said a student from the Nirmala Niketan College of Social Work.
