A PhD scholar at the University of Hyderabad , in July 2015 the University reportedly stopped paying Vemula the fellowship of per month after he was " raising issues under the banner of Ambedkar Students Association ( ASA ) " , though a university official denied the allegation of non-payment of scholarship , citing the delay on " paperwork . " At the beginning of August 2015 , Vemula and four ASA members protested against the death penalty for Yakub Memon , a convict in 1993 Bombay bombings in which 257 people were killed . They also condemned the ABVP protest on the screening of the documentary '' Muzaffarnagar Baaqi Hai '' in Delhi University . On 3 August 2015 , he and other ASA activists demonstrated at the Hyderabad campus . In response , ABVP 's university unit president , Nandanam Susheel Kumar , called them " goons " on Facebook
1993 Bombay bombings
1993 Bombay bombings
Suicide of Rohith Vemula