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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 ...
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, 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, 2004. He was...
Dec 30, 1995 · ISSUE DATE: Dec 31, 1995 | UPDATED: Dec 31, 1995 00:00 IST. RAJIV Goswami, 2 5, was born on September 19, 1990. The moment the lighted matchstick touched his kerosene-soaked clothes that afternoon, the nation caught fire. The agitation against Mandal had found its symbol.
Oct 15, 1990 · Dr. B.K. Bhattacharya, the principal of Deshbandhu College - where Rajeev studied, believes it was because the press and the intelligentsia were decrying the Mandal report. His friends say the only option he had after V.P. Singh's decision to implement the Mandal report was suicide.
Mar 6, 2016 · That young man was Rajiv Goswami, a commerce student of the college who had planned this act of protest that would engulf the VP Singh government and eventually lead to its downfall. Political...
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Aug 15, 2022 · It took a gory turn in September 1990 when a Deshbandhu College student, Rajeev Goswami, self-immolated. Though Goswami survived, he became the face of the agitation, and more immolation bids...
