Sainath compares Smriti Irani to Rohith Vemula, says she is worst education minister ever – video goes viral

January 30, 2016, NewsCrunch

An edited version of the speech made by noted journalist P Sainath at Hyderabad Central University has gone viral.

P Sainath had spoken to HyderabadCentralUniversitystudents rcently, who are protesting the suicide of PhD scholar Rohith Vemula.

He said coming from a humble and marginalised background it took great effort for Rohith Vemula to rise to the position of a research scholar at HyderabadCentralUniversity.

He compared Rohith’s accomplishment with the credentials of the Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, whom he described as a college dropout.

Criticising Irani as the worst education minister ever, Sainath also made fun of her  Yale university certificate course, which she had mistaken as a degree.

In his 20 minute long speech, Sainath spoke about how the country’s institutions were becoming elitist and urged the students to oppose the trend.