Will Chandrashekhar Azad be Opposition candidate against Modi in Varanasi?

Chandrashekhar follows the same principles of organising the Dalits as Kanshi Ram: Via education, through the bureaucracy and in self-defence

Aditi Phadnis 

Will Chandrashekhar Azad (or Raavan, the name he has given to himself) be the Opposition candidate against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi? Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s recent meeting with him has everyone talking about this. You need to be exceptionally brave to fight Modi in Varanasi and Raavan certainly is.

On the face of it, Raavan is fighting everyone. He was born in Dhadkauli village of Saharanpur in a Dalit family, studied at a Thakur-owned college in nearby Chhutmalpur, witnessed the discrimination against Dalit students and vowed to fight it. Being ...

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First Published: Sun, March 17 2019. 22:20 IST