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We remember Rohith Vemula on his martyrdom day!!
COLLECTIVE Mumbai put up an art exhibition at Mumbai University, Kalina Campus gate to commemorate Shahadati of Rohith Vemula. As Rohith imagined a world where one individual is not reduced in its immediate identity, as a number, we showed a history of that same imagination which braved severe repression of oppressive forces but dared to imagine a caste free world. The art exhibition put up at a bus stand showed the heroic anti-caste struggle from Savitribai to Mahad Satyagraha to Bhagat Singh to Namantar Movement to Dalit Panthers and the struggle of inspiring characters like Rohith in educational campuses against persistent manuvadi attacks by current dispensation. Both Public at Bus Stand and Students from the campus, following a parcha campaign, engaged in the assertive history of people to battle brahmanism and task in front of us to democratise campuses and imagine a free education in a free society.
At a time when policies like nep2020 are being pushed for a neoliberal commodified education model at a rapid pace, ignoring that SC/ST, OBC and minority students are already heavily underrepresented in higher education institutions. We reject such policies.
And we demand:
Enact Rohith Act
Reinstate Pre Matric scholarship for SC/ST and girl students
Bring back MANF, release NFSC, NFOBC scholarship lists immediately
Repeal NEP 2020