‘Reservation Hatao Andolan’ gets caste and merit wrong
On July 22, as the protests against Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan gathered momentum, something unusual began happening online.A new movement suddenly appeared. Reservation Hatao Andolan.At first, it barely had any followers. But on the very day Pradhan resigned, its reach exploded. It now has millions of followers. The people behind Reservation Hatao Andolan position themselves as the ideological opposite of those who had forced Pradhan’s resignation. At the same time, they insisted they were not aligned to any political party.Was it simply a coincidence that an anti-reservation…
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