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Rajiv Goswami was an Indian activist who attempted self-immolation in 1990 to protest against the Mandal Commission recommendations for job reservations for backward castes. He became a symbol of the anti-Mandal movement and later died in 2004 at the age of 32.
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,...
Rajiv Goswami was a student who attempted self-immolation in 1990 to protest against the Mandal Commission recommendations for reservation in government jobs based on caste. He was the first to spark a series of self-immolations and a movement against affirmative action in India.
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.
Dec 30, 1995 · 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. Pictures of him in flames hit front pages and magazine covers. Students around the country, some as young as
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.
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...
Jul 2, 2007 · Rajiv Goswami, a final-year student in Delhi University, immolating himself on September 15 to protest the implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations. He died in 2004.
Aug 7, 2021 · Things changed after 19 September 1990, when Rajiv Goswami, a college student in Delhi, set himself on fire in protest against V.P. Singh, his Government and the Mandal recommendations. In quick succession, there were other suicide attempts in Delhi, Hissar, Sirsa, Ambala, Meerut, Lucknow and other towns across the Gangetic valley.
Feb 25, 2004 · Pioneer of anti-Mandal stir Rajiv Goswami dead. New Delhi, February 24 Rajiv Goswami, who grabbed the headlines when he attempted self-immolation protesting against the implementation of the...
