Rahul flays Modi for not referring to Vemula in Parliament

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi today slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "failing" to mention names of Hyderabad University student Rohith Vemula and JNU Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar in his Parliament speech.
"In Parliament he (Modi) did not give a second to Rohith and Kanhaiya because the Prime Minister thinks that there is no necessity to answer the questions India is asking, that our students are asking, as he has become the PM of India. This is wrong as the Prime Minister is not the country and the country is not the Prime Minister," Gandhi said at a party rally here in Assam.

"Rohith's mother was very hurt. The Prime Minister cannot say one word on it. He cannot say that I am sorry that Rohith Vemula committed suicide," he said.
The Gandhi scion asserted that Vemula was "forced to commit suicide due to a letter from a ministry in Delhi to his University".
"One letter from a ministry in Delhi went to Hyderabad University that you have done wrong. The country's entire weight was put on one student's shoulder and he committed suicide. It's sad", Gandhi said.
Stating that those who were protesting against this

tactic of BJP-RSS were being framed, Gandhi noted, "Sedition charges have been put against me when I work all day for the poor, visit their homes and two of my family members were killed. The country is in my blood."

"And I am a deshdrohi!", he remarked.
The Congress leader further said, "Don't understand why those working for the poor, down-trodden are called deshdrohi (anti-national) and the one who works for 3-4 industrialists is a deshbhakt (patriot)".
Noting that the country was actually being run by the poor, farmers, workers, students in universities, the AICC Vice President said, "If the Prime Minister does not listen to them and answer their questions then the loss will not be theirs but the PM's".
"Elections are coming (in Assam) and the evil forces that forced Rohith Vemulla to commit suicide, put Kanhaiya in jail on sedition charges are trying to do the same in Assam also.

"They are trying to impose an ideology whose remote control is in Nagpur (RSS headquarters) and Prime Minister's Office. We will never allow that. Assam's remote control will be with the people of Assam," Gandhi said.
On the MGNREGA scheme, he said, " When Modi came to power he said in Parliament that he has never seen a worse scheme and that he would not allow it to continue. But his finance Minister Arun Jaitley told me that MGNREGA had a big role in the economic growth in our time (Congress) benefiting the poor".