New Delhi: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi is set to visit the University of Hyderabad today to meet the students after the suicide of the Dalit scholar who was expelled from the university following a tussle with students affiliated with the student wing of the BJP, Akhil Bharatiya Vidhyarthi Parishad (ABVP).

One of the five dalit scholars, expelled from the University of Hyderabad 12 days ago, hanged himself to death on Sunday. 25-year-old Rohith Vemula, who belonged to Guntur district of Amravati, was doing his PhD in science technology and society studies for the past two years, before the scholar allegedly got involved in a tiff between two student groups in August last year.