PM Expresses Grief Over UoH Student's Suicide

Finally breaking his silence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today expressed his grief over the suicide of a Dalit scholar in the Hyderabad Central University (University Of Hyderabad).

A visibly emotional Modi said, "When there is news that a youth of my country, Rohith, was compelled to commit suicide, what his family must have gone through. Mother India has lost a son. There will be reasons, there will be politics (surrounding it). But the fact remains that a mother has lost her son. I feel the pain very well."

The Prime Minister was speaking as the chief guest at the convocation ceremony of the B R Ambedkar University at Lucknow.

The event was marred by protest with some students raising slogans of "Modi go back". However, they were whisked away by the police.

To recap, the suicide by Rohith Vemula, a dalit Ph. D. student of the Hyderabad Central University, has kicked up a major row with Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani and Labour Minister Bandaru Dattatreya coming under intense attack from political rivals, who have blamed them for the incident and demanded their removal from the Union Cabinet.