CM condemns Nithin Raj’s death as public sentiment galvanises against management of Anjarakandy dental college

Public sentiment is galvanising against the backstage absorption of Anjarakandy Dental College pursuing the suspected termination of aesculapian pupil Nithin Raj, with his household attributing his decease to entrenched casteism connected campus. In a Facebook station connected Ambedkar Jayanthi connected Tuesday (April 14, 2026), Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan termed Nithin Raj’s decease “extremely painful”. He said progressive Kerala would ne'er “forgive those who drove Nithin Raj to his death”. 

Mr. Vijayan said the Central authorities has turned a deaf receptor to the request to enact the Rohith Vemula (Prevention of Discrimination, Exclusion oregon Injustice) (Right to Education and Dignity) Bill. The instrumentality projected by the Karnataka authorities seeks to forestall caste-based discrimination, harassment, and atrocities against students from the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes, Other Backwards Classes scholars from number communities successful each government, private, and deemed higher acquisition institutions.)