Condemning the various reports questioning her caste, deceased UoH research scholar Rohith Vemula's mother Radhika Vemula on Saturday asked why some people were now making a fuss over the issue.
Speaking to the media on the campus on Saturday, Radhika said she was an SC (dalit) Mala and had married a person belonging to the Vaddera (BC-A) caste. She said that she bore him two sons and one daughter, and divorced him after Rohith's birth.
Rohith's brother Raja Vemula, too, lamented that a section of people were raising a controversy over their caste after Rohith's death. He also found fault with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for responding to his brother's death only after five days.
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