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'''Rajiv Goswami''' ({{circa}} 1971 - 24 February 2004) was a 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 reservations for backward castes in India. Goswami spearheaded a formidable movement against the Mandal Commission and his act of self-immolation led to larger protests and a series of self-immolations by college students throughout India. During Mandal commission agitation, the [[AIIMS]] intersection in Delhi was temporarily renamed by students to [[Rajiv Chowk]] in a celebration of his act.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hvk.org/articles/0304/34.html | title=Why India forgot a hero | first=Chandan | last=Mitra | publisher=Sify News | date=1 March 2004 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706045301/http://www.hvk.org/articles/0304/34.html |archivedate=6 July 2009 | accessdate=15 March 2020 | via=hvk.org }}</ref><br />
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Subsequently, he was elected to position of the Delhi University Students' Union president. He later gave up active politics due to health problems and started his own business. In the following years he was frequently in and out of hospitals because of severe health complications resulting from his self-immolation bid.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/2004/02/25/stories/2004022501841301.htm |title=The Hindu : Rajiv Goswami dead |publisher=Hinduonnet.com |date=2004-02-25 |accessdate=2013-09-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/two-generations-one-issue/story-u0OfQ02cwYOVEDG3VTou7I.html | title=Two generations one issue | date=21 August 2011 | newspaper=Hindustan Times | first=Aasheesh | last=Sharma | accessdate=29 September 2018 }}</ref><br />
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He was a resident of Gomti Apartments at [[Kalkaji]] in New Delhi. He died on 24 February 2004 at the age of 33 in Holy Family Hospital [[Okhla]], [[New Delhi]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/The-man-who-sparked-anti-Mandal-agitation/Article1-87941.aspx |title=The man who sparked anti-Mandal agitation |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=2006-04-17 |accessdate=2013-09-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830140830/http://www.hindustantimes.com/The-man-who-sparked-anti-Mandal-agitation/Article1-87941.aspx |archivedate=2011-08-30 }}</ref> His mother, Nandrani Goswami, was one of the speakers at anti reservation protests in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|author=Teena Thacker |url=http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=68541 |title=Rajiv Goswami's mother appeals to protesters |publisher=Express India |date=2006-06-01 |accessdate=2013-09-09}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Mandal Commission protests of 1990]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000101/windows/pages/30.htm Rajiv Goswami attempting self immolation]<br />
*[http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/feb/24rajiv.htm Obituary]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110830140830/http://www.hindustantimes.com/The-man-who-sparked-anti-Mandal-agitation/Article1-87941.aspx The man who sparked anti-Mandal agitation]<br />
*[http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/feb/24rajiv.htm Pioneer of anti-Mandal stir dies]<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090706045301/http://www.hvk.org/articles/0304/34.html Why India forgot a hero]<br />
*[http://www.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/03swami.htm Young men at the barricades]<br />
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