Where were you when the Mandal Committee recommendations were implemented by the VP Singh-led government in 1990?
For the third episode of ‘Where Were You When’, we speak with four journalists – Raghav Bahl, MK Jha, Ajmal Jami and Nutan Manmohan – who were all part of a small team of India's first video news magazine Newstrack based in New Delhi when the central government proposed to provide 27 percent reservation, based on the reports of the Mandal Commission, to ‘Other Backward Classes’ in government jobs and educational institutions.
The Mandal Committee report didn't get much attention from any central government for almost a decade until the VP Singh stood at Red Fort on Independence day to announce his government's commitment to the committee's recommendations and the violent mass protests that began after was unprecedented. Tune in to the podcast for more!