Hyderabad: Radhika and Raja Vemula, mother and brother of Rohith Vemula, who have hit the road in protest since his suicide in January face a financial crisis.
Raja, a project fellow at the NGRI, has been on leave for two months to deal with legal affairs, NGOs, the media, even as he travels from one place to another and speaking at various forums about Rohith.
His contract for the project at NGRI comes to an end in March and he is not sure what his next source of income will be. When Rohith was alive, he used to send a part of his fellowship to his family.
The promised financial package and the job offered by two ministers of the TD government in Andhra Pradesh have not materialised. Ms Radhika Vemula has been taking ill ever since Rohith’s death, says Raja. On Saturday, Raja was in hospital where his mother was admitted with high BP.
“After Rohith died, I was hopeful that justice will be done to my brother and the culprits will be punished soon but I am losing hope now. The government is bent upon proving we are not Dalits but it is not bothered to examine the circumstances which led to his death,” Raja told this correspondent.
