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RAHUL GANDHI URGES KARNATAKA CM SIDDARAMAIAH TO ENACT ROHITH VEMULA ACT FOR ENDING CASTE-BASED DISCRIMINATION

April 19, 2025

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In his letter to Siddaramaiah, Rahul Gandhi highlighted the discrimination B.R. Ambedkar faced in his lifetime.

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Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has written to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, urging the State government to enact a law named Rohith Vemula Act for ensuring that no one faces caste-based discrimination in the education system.

In his letter to the Karnataka CM, Gandhi highlighted the discrimination B.R. Ambedkar faced in his lifetime.

"Here he describes an incident during a long bullock cart journey: 'There was plenty of food with us. There was hunger burning within us; with all this we were to sleep without food; that was because we could get no water, and we could get no water because we were untouchables'.

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