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Do not politicize education: Irani

Do not politicize education: Irani

| | 24 Feb 2016, 08:13 pm
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IBNS) The Lok Sabha turned into a battlefield on Wednesday with politicians debating over the JNU row and the suicide Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula as an emotional Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani urged lawmakers not to 'politicize' education.

She said children should not be used as vote banks.

"Do not politicize education and make it a battlefield..Our children are not vote banks," Irani said in the Parliament.

"Do not play politics over body of a child. Rahul Gandhi never visited a place twice but in Rohith Vemula he saw political opportunism," she said.

She said the university council that suspended Rohith was appointed by the previous UPA government.

"Rahul Gandhi could have asked me to go together to JNU to address the students. My request is help me build this nation and not destroy it from within," she said.

Debating over the JNU row in the Lok Sabha and the suicide of Rohith Vemula, Congress leader Jyotiraditya  Scindia on Wednesday tried to corner the government and said blacklisting the premiere university of 8,000 students for the actions of 8 students is 'unacceptable'.

"It is not acceptable that a university of 8,000 students blacklisted for the actions of 8 students," Scindia said.

Attacking the Centre, he said: "Union government and ministers are trying to encroach into varsities."

He said: "The government has the mindset of damaging people who hold different mindset from them."

Scindia raising the issue of Rohith Vemula said: "The thinking of this government is...My way or the highway."

Both the Houses of the Parliament are debating the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) episode and Rohit Vermula's death in Hyderabad University to corner the Narendra Modi government.

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