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Rajiv Goswami (12 June 1971 – 24 February 2004) was an Indian activist and a former commerce student at the Deshbandhu College, Delhi University who came into prominence when he attempted self-immolation on 19 September 1990 to protest against Prime Minister V. P. Singh's implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations for job ...
Jan 9, 2019 · Madan Goswami, whose son Rajeev Goswami set himself on fire against OBC reservation, says his son would approve of the new quota for upper-caste poor. He adds that the quota should reach the actual poor and not the relatives of the implementers.
Rajiv Goswami, the former Delhi University Students' Union president who set himself afire during the anti-Mandal agitation in 1990, died in a hospital in New Delhi on February 24,...
Oct 3, 2015 · Rajeev Goswami was a 19-year-old student of Delhi’s Deshbandhu College when he attempted to immolate himself, sparking off a series of self-immolations by other students against the implementation of the Mandal Commission’s recommendations for reservation of OBCs in government jobs.
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Rajiv Goswami was the first student to attempt self-immolation while a student at Deshbandhu College, Delhi University in October, 1990 to protest against Prime Minister V.P. Singh's implementation of the Mandal Commission laws for Affirmative Action (reservation) recommendations.
Dec 30, 1995 · Sitting in his modest home in Delhi's downmarket Govindpuri area his body stiff and his speech impaired from the burns he suffered Goswami says uncon-vincingly: "I have no regrets about what I did." Another blow came when the Supreme Court upheld the recommendations of the Mandal Commission in 1994.
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Aug 31, 2015 · In September, Rajeev Goswami, a Delhi University student, set himself on fire, sustaining 50 per cent burns. He survived the immolation bid, but the spark had been ignited. In cities and towns near Delhi, a number of youths set themselves on fire.
