Bengaluru: A post by Bengaluru-based CEO Anuradha Tiwari has gone viral after she shared a news article of a Brahmin woman, who reportedly died by suicide. The girl reportedly decided to take the extreme step as she could not pursue her desired stream in Class XI, due to financial constraints in her family.
Taking to X, she wrote that a Brahmin girl is driven to die by suicide as her father was unable to afford her education. “Budget allocation for Reserved categories is around 2.8 lakh crores. Lakhs of crores for them while poor Brahmins and GCs are left to die. This is why we must unite and fight back !”, she added.
Not a single politician has spoken about this Brahmin girl’s suicide!
If she were from reserved community, they’d be making huge uproar. Since she’s a Brahmin, nobody gives a damn—neither left nor right wing.
Spread this news everywhere so it reaches deaf ears of politicians. https://t.co/YRce1pAYux
— Anuradha Tiwari (@talk2anuradha) September 3, 2024
Blaming her politicians in the country for her death, she wrote If the girl had been from a reserved community, they would have made a huge uproar. “Since she’s a Brahmin, nobody gives a damn—neither left nor right-wing,” she wrote in another message on X.
The victim’s father expressed inability to get her admitted in the desired stream
Tiwari was referring to a news report published in ‘The Times of India’. The 19-year-old girl died by suicide after her father expressed his inability to get her admitted in the Science stream due to financial constraints. She had reportedly consumed poison. On August 22, she showed signs of recovery after which she was discharged from the hospital. However, after her health deteriorated again on August 25, she was again admitted to the SMIMER hospital. The girl died on Saturday during a treatment. Her father runs a grocery shop.
CEO’s message led to debate earlier too
Earlier in August 2022, she had shared a message on social media, that led to debate on the platform. She wrote of knowing a family where both parents work as government teachers, yet kids work in government banks, after getting selected through reservation. “How is this not an exploitation of Reservation? If parents have already benefited from Reservation, why are kids using it?”