Leaders of the Kula Vivaksha Vyatireka Porata Samithi (KVPS), an affiliated union of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), have demanded enactment of the proposed ‘Rohith Vemula Act’ to safeguard the right to education and dignity for the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes and minorities. They said educational institutions should be free of caste discrimination to allow students to focus on their academic pursuits.
In a statement on March 23 (Saturday), the organisation’s State general secretary, A. Malyadri, alleged that B. Navadeep, a first-year Dalit student from Bapatla Engineering College, was beaten up with a stick and abused with his caste name by the drawing teacher Balaji. He said the boy sustained injuries on his hand and had to be shifted to the Bapatla government hospital for treatment.
