Surinder Singh Chauhan
Surinder Singh Chauhan was the first student to perform self-immolation while an evening student of Deshbandhu College (Delhi University) on September 24, 1990 to protest against implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendation for reservation to candidates based on birth. He left a suicide note stating that "The responsibility for my death lies with those people who consider reservation a vote bank, people like V.P. Paswan, Yadav ...".
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“Saint, saintliness is a long way off.
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—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.