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Saturday, September 23, 2006 (New Delhi):
Video images of AIIMS students burning books written by Dalit leader BR Ambedkar has been found circulating among fellow students, according to reports.
The footage on CD was filmed in an AIIMS hostel and the students are said to be anti-reservation activists, reserved category students said.
"These are AIIMS students, and they are burning Baba Saheb's book in the campus. They are doing this to propagate caste bias among students, they support caste hatred," said Ajay Kumar Singh, a final year student at AIIMS.
Members of Parliament had intervened with a letter to the Prime Minister on discrimination against students and the Prime Minister took note last month.
But the AIIMS administration and the Health Minister's office has not reacted so far to cases of discrimination reported to them.
Faculty members at AIIMS say the caste bias must be taken seriously.
"It's a very serious incident, when it happens in elite institutions and caste hatred is spread like this, definitely we will go to the SC/ST commission, minorities commission," said Professor Murmoo.
Reservation category students were told not to speak with reporters about the CD or make the images public, reports said.
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"Ours is a battle not for wealth or for power.
It is a battle for freedom. It is a battle for the reclamation of human personality."
- Dr BR Ambedkar
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