However, some of the recent controversies have yet again betrayed the RSS’s upper caste bias. Repeated statements by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat calling for a review of the caste based reservation policy were slammed even by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members. The BJP and the larger Sangh Pariavar’s mishandling of the suicide of Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula, where its leaders questioned the genuineness of Vemula’s claims of having been a Dalit and even his mental balance, lost them goodwill among the Dalits.