Rahul Gandhi, in a letter addressed to the Congress chief ministers, urged them to enact the Rohit Vemula Act. In the letter dated April 17, he addressed Telangana, Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka chief ministers to enact legislations to ensure no one faced caste based discrimination.
“Unless every student receives respect, security and equal opportunity without discrimination, our education system cannot be fair to all. After writing to
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah ji, I have written a letter to Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu ji and Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy ji and requested them to implement a ‘Rohit Vemula Act’,” he said in a post in Hindi on X.
“The Congress is fully committed to providing equal access to education to every child and eliminating caste discrimination,” he added, sharing the letters to the two chief ministers.