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A 34-Year-Old From India’s Lowest Class Challenges Modi’s Party
A well-known activist for the rights of Dalits is challenging India’s ruling party.
28 Aug 2021, 06:42 PM IST
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- “I’d seen so much corruption in politics when I was younger, I didn’t want to become a politician,” says Chandrashekhar Azad. “But I knew I wanted to go into activism.” He ended up doing both. Azad, 34, is a well-known activist for the rights of Dalits, a group long oppressed under the Indian caste system, and other marginalized groups. Last year he formally moved into politics, founding the Aazad Samaj P...
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