Patna,(BiharTimes): RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bihar’s food  minister and a Janata Dal (United) leader belonging to  Scheduled Castes, Shyam Rajak, on Friday strongly denounced  the action of banning a Dalit outfit by IIT-Madras management  on the directive of the Union human resources development  ministry.

While Lalu tweeted to flay the Narendra Modi government for  this undemocratic action Shyam Rajak, in a statement,  questioned the very move to ban a Dalit organization simply  because it has a different stand on beef-eating and  criticized the policy of the NDA government. He said that  this is worse than Emergency. 

This is suppression of Dalit voice, which is an illegal and  unauthorized act, he added. It needs to be mentioned that the IIT-Madras has banned the  Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle (APSC), which was mobilising  Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe students against the  Narendra Modi government’s policies.

Media reports from New Delhi and Chennai said that IIT-Madras  banned the organization on the complaint of criticising Modi  and spreading hatred against Hindus. IIT-Madras took the action following an anonymous complaint  which said that the Dalit outfit had criticised the Central  government’s policies and spread “hatred” against Prime  Minister Narendra Modi and Hindus. The prestigious technical education institute acted after the  Union human resource development ministry forwarded the  anonymous complaint