Dalit student suicide: FTII students sit on hunger strike

Expressing "solidarity" with students protesting over alleged suicide by a dalit scholar in Hyderabad, the students of Film and

Television Institute of India (FTII) on Tuesday sat on a day-long hunger strike outside the institute's gate here.

"We are in solidarity with students protesting the death of Rohit Vemula, and as many as eight students sat on hunger strike for a

day," FTII Students' Association president Harishankar Nachimuthu said.

The hunger strike started with eight students and slowly other students too are joining the protest, he said.