Apparently succumbing to the uproar over the recent incidents starting with Ph. D. student Rohith Vemula's suicide, the University of Hyderabad authorities lifted the hostel suspension on the remaining four Dalit students.
The University Executive Council met this morning and took a decision withdrawing the suspension on the remaining four students - Prashant, Vijay, Sheshaiah and Sunkanna. However, they said that that a police investigation and two court cases in the matter might alter things again.
The sequence of incidents started off with five students being expelled from the hostels in connection with an alleged attack on an ABVP activist Susheel Kumar. The students have been staging protests for the past fortnight demanding revocation of their expulsion, and one of them, Rohith Vemula, committed suicide on the campus on Sunday, sparking off a furore all over the country. In the wake of the suicide, top political leaders including Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, CPI-M general secretary Sitaram Yechury, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and YSR Congress Party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy air-dashed to Hyderabad and expressed their solidarity with the agitating students of the university. The intense pressure this built up quite likely forced the University to repeal the hostel expulsion.
However, the students said that they were yet to receive any communication about the revocation of suspension. They said their agitation would continue till justice was done to Vemula.
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