Hydrabad: The protest over the suicide of a Dalit research scholar in the University of Hyderabad intensified with Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi joining the agitators at the campus on Saturday. For more than 12 hours, Rahul Gandhi sat with students and the family members of Rohith Vemula, who are on hunger strike, demanding justice.

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi with students at the University of Hyderabad during a protest over Rohith Vemula’s death in Hyderabad. pic/PTI