On Feb 3rd, 2016, more than 30000 Dalit Bahujan students from all over Karnataka part of BVS (Bahujan Vidhyarthi Sangha) conducted a peaceful massive rally and protest demanding Reservation in Private Sector and boycotting Global Investors Meet was met with huge police repression of students without any provocation and arresting 30 students charging various offenses and kept in subjail without bail or 3 days.
The entire mainstream with the exception of few kananda media suppressed the news when they were pouring crocodile tears and extensive analysis on Rohit Vemula’s death and situation of Dalit students. Thanks to Dalit Camera Ambedkar for video footage of the protests and lathi charge and the interview taken of Hariram, Coordinator of BVS and Asst Professor of Political Science on the protest.