Lucknow students give shock to PM; chant ‘Modi murdabad’, ‘Modi go back’

Lucknow, Jan 22: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is accustomed to listening chants of ‘Modi Modi’ whenever he addresses a gathering be it in India or abroad. However, perhaps for the first time, he was confronted with opposition outside the Parliament when a group of students chanted ‘Modi murdabad’, ‘Modi go back’.

The incident occurred in Lucknow when Prime Minister Modi took to the dais to address students in the convocation ceremony of BR Ambedkar University.

As PM Modi started speaking, a group of students started chanting ‘Modi wapas jao’, ‘Modi go back’, ‘Modi haay haay, ‘Modi murdabad’. The security present there and some students of the university dragged the protesting students out of the hall. The protest was related to the suicide of Dalit student of Hyderabad University.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who spoke about the Dadri lynching after many days that led to Opposition slamming him for his silence, expressed his anguish at the untimely death of the student. The teary-eyed Modi said Mother India lost her son and he empathise with the mother who lost her son.

Following the national outrage over Rohith Vemula’s suicide, the executive council of the Hyderabad University revoked the expulsion of the remaining 4 Dalit scholars.

Five Dalit scholars were expelled from the hostel December. Rohith committed suicide.

Sontha Prasanth, Pepapudi Vijay Kumar, Sheshaiah Chemudugunta and Velpula Sunkanna were not allowed to use college amenities. Though they were allowed to attend the classes.

“The council after taking into account the extraordinary situation prevailing in the university, and after discussing the issue in detail, has resolved to terminate the punishment imposed on the students concerned with immediate effect,” a news paper quoted a council.