Where is the expected outcry from Dalit groups?This PM is bloody touchy. He gets offended if students discuss his failures or criticise his communalised and corporatised politics.

This PM is bloody touchy. He gets offended if students discuss his failures or criticise his communalised and corporatised politics.

This cannot only be the students' fight. It's got to be everyone's.

Why are Congress, CPM, CPI, AAP, JDU all silent on this?  Are they waiting to make it an issue only if it affects their own fiefdoms?

Not even a whimper of protest from DMK, PMK, AIADMK, all of who claim Periyar.

Where is the expected outcry from Dalit groups?

"Though the platform created a space for the students of IITM to discuss and debate on issues directly affecting the peasants, labours and the common mass, APSC continuously faced threats from rightwing groups inside IITM. Even the administration tried to curtail the activities of APSC, in June 2014, the DoS Dr.M.S.Sivakumar directed us to change name stating that the names 'Ambedkar and Periyar' are politically motivated and thus the study circle should be renamed with some apolitical titles without any personolity's name. APSC took stubborn decision to stick with the same title. We also indicated, the activities of right wing groups under the banner of Vivekananda Study Circle, but the Dean of Student's said they have been using the name (Vivekananda) for many years and he denied to change the name of "Vivekananda study circle". For a second time in September 2014, he sent a mail for the same reason, through MITR (the general counseling unit for students run by IITM admin) rather than from Dean's office stating that the name is polarising the students. We clearly explained the Dean, the motto of the study circle and relevance of Ambedkar and Periyar's name."


http://www.countercurrents.org/apsc290515.htm