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Rahul counter attacks Modi over his tweet after Smriti Irani's speech

India Blooms News Service | | Feb 28, 2016, at 03:44 pm

#Rahul Gandhi # Satyameva Jayate tweet # PM Modi # Rohith Vemula suicide # Smriti Irani speech

New Delhi, Feb 28 (IBNS): In a sharp criticism to Narendra Modi's tweet in praise for Smriti Irani following her fiery and emotional speech in the Parliament, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi has asked the Prime Minister to listen out the version of mother of Rohith Vemula, the Hyderabad Central University scholar who committed suicide.

"Satyameva Jayate! Modiji do hear these words of Rohith Vemula's mother," Rahul Gandhi wrote on Twitter while posting the link of Rohith's mother's version.

PM Modi had posted "Satyameva Jayate" right after Smriti Irani's stormy speech in the Parliament.

However, the family and friends of Rohith Vemula called a press conference on Friday in New Delhi to clear the air on what they called ‘lies’ being propagated by Smriti Irani in Parliament.

Vemula’s friend Prashant said Irani, in her speeches in Parliament on Wednesday and Thursday, was not telling the truth regarding the events associated with the scholar’s death.

He said Irani is an actress and was acting in Parliament like a film.

He said political involvement of BJP led to the suicide of Rohit Vemula who was struggling to receive his seven month fellowship.

The family and friends of Rohit also said that the minister's contention that "nobody allowed a doctor near him" when he attempted suicide is also a lie.

During her speech on Wednesday, Irani had suggested that the Opposition was using Vemula to attack the government while the scholar didn’t want to blame anyone for his death.

Irani said in Parliament: "The police has reported..... not one attempt was made to revive this child. Not one attempt was made to take him to a doctor. Instead his body was used as a political tool. Hidden. No police was allowed till 6.30 the next morning. Not me, but the Telangana police is saying this."

Separately, Dr. Rajashree P the Chief Medical Officer, University of Hyderabad, the doctor who was on duty at the university's health centre refuted the minister’s claims that nobody allowed a doctor to visit Vemula to revive him or take him to a hospital, according to media reports.

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