Hindustan Times (Chandigarh)

PUNIA SAYS PANEL IS INCORRECT

- Press Trust of India

BARABANKI: NCSC Chairman PL Punia on Thursday rejected the reported findings of the Roopanwal Commission that Rohith Vemula did not belong to the SC community as “totally wrong”.

The National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairman said the statutory body and the district collector have, in separate reports, found that the research scholar belonged to the Dalit community, and not Other Backward Class (OBC).

“The issues raised by the Congress were sidelined and now the report is being presented that Vemula was not a Dalit,” Punia told reporters on Wednesday.

The Congress MP alleged that the commission was set up to justify what BJP ministers had been saying from day one.

in the next election. DalitBahuj­ans will decide the future. It is all of our job to protect the Constituti­on. This country is for all of us, not just for dominant castes.

Do you despair that you’d never get justice for your son? Deep down, I know that I will get justice. It will be a long battle, and maybe not even in the tenure of this gover nment.

But I started fighting so that there are no more such institutio­nal murders. No mother should go through this. There should be no more

Rohiths.

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