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Congress begins indefinite fast to press for CBI inquiry into Sidharthan’s death

The Congress dug in its heels on the demand for a CBI probe into the Students Federation of India’s (SFI) ‘criminal culpability’ in the suspected death by suicide of Sidharthan J.S., a second-year student at the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) at Pookode in Wayanad last month.

Youth Congress State president Rahul Mamkoothathil; Mahila Congress State president Jeby Mether, MP; and Kerala Students Union (KSU) president Aloshious Xavier have commenced an indefinite fast in front of the Government Secretariat to press the party’s demand.

‘On trial for dissent’

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