‘Might’ve Despatched Dalit Or OBC…’: Udit Raj Sees Casteism In Shubhanshu Shukla’s House Mission Choose
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Udit Raj questioned the selection of Shubhanshu Shukla for the Axiom 4 mission, suggesting a Dalit ought to have been despatched.
It has been a historic journey for Shukla, who grew to become the primary Indian to journey to the ISS. (Pictures: ANI + Axiom House)
Udit Raj, Congress chief and former Lok Sabha MP, on Tuesday questioned the selection of Shubhanshu Shukla for the Axiom 4 mission.
Raj, who represented North West Delhi between 2014 and 2019 in Lok Sabha, stated India ought to have despatched an individual from Dalit or Different Backward Class (OBC) to house.
“When Rakesh Sharma was despatched earlier, the SC, ST, OBC folks weren’t that educated. This time, I believe it was the flip to ship a Dalit… It isn’t that NASA carried out an examination, after which there was a variety. Any Dalit or OBC may have been despatched instead of Shukla ji,” he instructed information company ANI.
The Congress chief additionally alleged that the BJP-led authorities isn’t giving sufficient alternatives to the OBCs.
“I congratulate Shukla. I hope he’ll share his inputs with others. Nevertheless, I really feel an OBC or a Dalit ought to be given an opportunity. The scientists in South India are largely from the OBC background. Science and expertise have been developed in South India. This authorities isn’t giving sufficient alternatives to them,” he stated.
Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others from the Axiom-4 mission are set to return to Earth on Tuesday, touchdown within the ocean close to San Diego after a 22.5-hour journey from the Worldwide House Station, the place they spent 18 days.
The Dragon ‘Grace’ spacecraft carrying Shukla, commander Peggy Whitson, and mission specialists Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland and Tibor Kapu of Hungary, undocked from the house station at 4:45 pm IST on Monday.
Who Is Shubhanshu Shukla?
Born in Lucknow in 1985, Shubhanshu Shukla accomplished his education from Montessori to Class 12 at CMS Aliganj. He later graduated from the Nationwide Defence Academy and was commissioned into the Indian Air Power in 2006. With over 2,000 hours of flying expertise on prime fight plane, he was chosen in 2019 for India’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme and was finally chosen because the pilot for the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) mission.
With this house journey, Shukla grew to become the primary Indian to journey to the ISS and solely the second to journey to house after Rakesh Sharma’s pathbreaking spaceflight as a part of the then Soviet Union’s mission to Salyut-7 house station in 1984.
ISRO paid roughly Rs 550 crore for Shukla’s journey to the ISS, an expertise that can assist the house company within the planning and execution of its human spaceflight programme, Gaganyaan, set to take to orbit in 2027.
(with inputs from ANI, PTI)
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