Ambedkarite Action Committee

parked off hundreds of protests across the country in which people demanded justice for Rohith. Despite the nationwide protests calling upon the government to arrest Rohith’smurderers, no action has been taken yet. Appa Rao Podile has not been sacked from the post of Vice-Chancellor. The Hyderabad High Court has put a stay order on the arrest of BJP MLC Ramachandra Rao and ABVP President Susheel Kumar. To cancel out the SC/ST Atrocities Act charges, the government is trying to prove that Rohith was not a Dalit. Instead of taking demands raised by people’s struggles seriously and acting on them, the RSS-led BJP government and student wing ABVP have branded the protestors as “anti-national.” They are using the police as their instrument to spread terror among students and progressive forces as can be seen from the brutal police lathicharge on students, the police crackdown on university campuses and the arrest of students under draconian sedition law. Since these Hindutva Fascist forces cannot defeat progressive ideas through debate, they have raised their repressive weapons to curb the anti-caste and rational thoughts. To carry forward the struggle for Justice for Rohith, a call has been declared by Ambedkarite action Committee, and We the students, workers, cultural activists, intellectuals, will Fight in memory of Rohith’s martyrdom, to fight for justice and freedom and to realize the India of our dreams. Our demands are :

- Enact “Rohith Act” against the caste discrimination in educational spaces.
- Punish the culprits (Smriti Irani, Bandaru Dattatreya, Appa Rao, Ramchandra Rao, Alok Pandey and Susheel Kumar).
- Remove Appa Rao from post of Vice Chancellor.
- Employ a family member of Rohith in the university.
- Pay a minimum compensation of 50 lakhs.
- Drop the false police cases against the five research scholars.
- Appoint a special public prosecutor in the concerned case of Rohith.
- Constitute a judicial inquiry (non-MHRD members) into all cases of discrimination and harassment of Dalit, Adivasi, OBC, Religious Minority students in all higher educational institutions.
- Implement Affirmative action policies in all higher education institutions, irrespective of the management of the colleges.