Opposition leader Udhayanidhi has strongly criticized the video released with tears by Tamil Nadu student Bharathidasan, who is pursuing research studies in Malaysia under the Ambedkar Overseas Education Scholarship Scheme.
In the video released by student Bharathidasan, he says, “I have been asking for the scholarship since April. But even now, I have not received it. A situation has arisen where I may be expelled from the university.”
I kept receiving emails from the government. But the grant amount still has not arrived. You have raised questions about the details of the equipment purchased for research. You asked whether all of these were bought for research purposes. “Are you telling me not to study?” she had tearfully posted in a video.
In this situation, in the X post released by Udhayanidhi, urging that this TVK government should help student Bharathidasan, he pointed out that Bharathidasan, a Tamil Nadu student pursuing research studies in Malaysia under the Ambedkar Overseas Education Scholarship Scheme, had said that this government had delayed and withheld his educational scholarship. Now, he has released a tearful video saying that these rulers are putting even his education itself in jeopardy.
Minister Vanni Arasu, you speak of “sharing power in governance for the oppressed.” But Bharathidhasan Raman, who is pursuing a PhD under the overseas higher education scholarship given in the name of Annal Ambedkar, is facing issues with his education itself because of a problem related to scholarship funds… pic.twitter.com/4VRJzyQWLo
— Sandhiya (@j_sandhiya) September 17, 2026
On Social Justice Day, I strongly condemn the TVK government for staging such a social injustice.
These rulers, who shift the blame onto others to hide their own mistakes, are at the height of disgrace for targeting the student who said he had not received the scholarship under the Ambedkar Overseas Education Scholarship Scheme, pressuring him, and trying to expel him from education.
It is unacceptable that this government has taken up the task of ruining student Bharathidasan’s education in order to take revenge on him.
This government must not create any obstacle to Bharathidasan’s education, after he has spoken in anguish that the same cruelty done to Rohith Vemula is being done to him.
Tamil Nadu student Bharathidasan, who is pursuing research studies in Malaysia under the Ambedkar Overseas Education Scholarship Scheme, had pointed out that this government had delayed providing him with his scholarship. Now, these rulers have even…
— Udhay (@Udhaystalin) September 17, 2026
Udhayanidhi has urged that this government must stand by him so that he receives the scholarship due to him and can continue his research studies.
