four other students suspended from the university's hostel, he was booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The previous August, he wrote a letter to Smriti Irani, the minister of Human Resource Development claiming the university had turned into a "den of casteist, extremist and anti-national politics". Dattatreya denied any wrongdoing and claimed that he had received the letter from Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and just forwarded it to Irani with his official letterhead. Other students of the university claimed that his letter was a "part of the larger discrimination of Dalit students". References External links Parliament of India Biography |- |- |- |- |- |- India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 1999–2004 India MPs 2014–2019 1947 births Bharatiya Janata Party politicians from Telangana Labour ministers of India Living people Lok Sabha members from Andhra Pradesh Lok Sabha members from Telangana Narendra Modi ministry People from Telangana Politicians from Secunderabad Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh pracharaks Telangana politicians Telugu politicians Union Ministers from Telangana Osmania University alumni Governors of Himachal Pradesh