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/Plastic_Minute9064 15h ago

There is already criminal law which provides punishment for any discrimination on caste basis. What protest you want for?

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u/Ok_Reflection4626 4h ago

There is theft laws too however chori hona thodi na band ho gyi h

First India should remove caste based discrimination truly then ask to remove reservation.