Hyderabad: It has been announced by the Andhra Pradesh government that it will offer jobs to the mother and brother of Rohit Vemula, the Dalit research scholar at Hyderabad Central University who committed suicide on Sunday.

The family also received an amount of Rs 5 lakh as ex-gratia by the ruling Telugu Desam Party said State Social Welfare Minister Ravela Kishore Babu.

“On behalf of the party, the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu offered Rs 5 lakh to the family. And on government’s behalf, we will be providing a contract teacher’s job to Rohit’s brother who is doing MSc. We will also give Rohit’s mother a job appropriate for her qualifications,” Ravela told media sources.

The minister and some TDP leaders also visited Vemula’s mother and offered condolences.