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Budget Session Day 2: Mayawati's BSP Yells 'Dalit Virodhi Sarkar'

Mayawati's BSP Yells 'Dalit Virodhi Sarkar' During Budget Session
NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Mayawati Supremo BSP talking to media personnel after Rajya Sabha passes SC/ST Bill, supplementary demands without debate during the Winter Session of the Parliament at Parliament House on December 21, 2015 in New Delhi, India. As pressure mounted on it for early passage of the Juvenile Justice Bill, the government today listed the crucial legislation in Rajya Sabha for passage tomorrow and blamed Congress for blocking it in the past due to its obstructionist politics even when it was listed on 15 occasions. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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NEW DELHI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Mayawati Supremo BSP talking to media personnel after Rajya Sabha passes SC/ST Bill, supplementary demands without debate during the Winter Session of the Parliament at Parliament House on December 21, 2015 in New Delhi, India. As pressure mounted on it for early passage of the Juvenile Justice Bill, the government today listed the crucial legislation in Rajya Sabha for passage tomorrow and blamed Congress for blocking it in the past due to its obstructionist politics even when it was listed on 15 occasions. (Photo by Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

NEW DELHI -- Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today triggered an uproar in the Rajya Sabha by raising Rohith Vemula's suicide, with lawmakers from her party shouting "Dalit virodhi sarkar" (anti-Dalit government) in the Well of the House.

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned multiple times on the second day of the Budget Session.

"Dalit virodhi ye sarkaar, nahin chalegi, nahi chalegi, Ambedkar virodhi ye sarkaar, nahin chalegi, nahin chalegi," BSP lawmakers shouted over and over again.

"Rohith ke pariwar ko nyay do (Give justice to Rohith's family)," they said.

During the course of the Budget Session, opposition parties are closing ranks against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government over three issues: the arrest of students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in a sedition case, the violent Jat agitation over quota in the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category, and Vemula's suicide at the University of Hyderabad.

Irate over the Modi government's handling of the Dalit student's suicide, last month, Mayawati demanded the sacking of the university's Vice Chancellor, resignation of two union ministers, and the inclusion of a Dalit member in the Enquiry Commission probing the incident.

"Dalit students are being targeted," she said.

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani accused the Opposition of using "a child as a political tool."

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