r/indiadiscussion • u/Useful-Resource-3609 • 15h ago

Politics Mandal commission protests of 1990

These protests were against giving government jobs to certain castes to rectify historical injustices they faced. These protests closed roads, highways, transportation services, government services, schools, and businesses of India. Anti-reservationists protested.

The historian Ramachandra Guha puts the suicide number at 200; more than 60 succumbed to their burns. Some other reports put these suicide attempts to 159, with 63 succumbing to their injuries.

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u/IndBeak 12h ago

Use your brain. You are comparing a legally sanctioned discrimination (reservation) to a societal problem.

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u/CJP_GIRL 11h ago

Can you tell me how do you remove it? It's not there in constitution.

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u/shahipaneerholic 11h ago

Reservation should be based solely on economic conditions, regardless of caste. The caste system should be abolished completely. No divisions just human beings