NEW DELHI: The anti-reservation stir Saturday spread to South India and Delhi with students courting arrest in Andhra Pradesh state while protestors blocked traffic in several cities of Rajasthan and set fire to a railway coach in eastern Bihar,
In the Andhra Capital Hyderabad over 50 students demonstrated and burnt copies of their degree certificated in protest against the Mandal commission report. They have been arrested.
For the first time a counter offensive supporting quotas was launched in Bihar town Ranchi where about 350 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha party workers took out a march through the main streets shouting preservation slogans,
The federal government has issued a notification Monday allowing for 27 per cent reservation of government jobs for the socially weaker and backward classes. This followed the government acceptance of the Mandal commission report which made the recommendations.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 24, 1990
