The policy of reservations, at least the way it is practiced now is abhorring and should be abolished, not add community after community. If they want to keep it, it should be limited to one or at most two generations and cannot go on for ever to the same guys.
Christians do not practice caste system. Hindus do, although they blame the caste for everything, they do not want to leave it. Once a person is taking up Christianity, he wants to be out of this caste cycle. Once a Dalit becomes a Christian or Muslim, he is that. He is not going to establish caste system in that religion. He will not have a caste there and claiming the Neglect of his caste when he was a Hindu does not and cannot apply. The purpose of conversion, as I understand is to be Castless-How does Dalit come again into picture? Vijaya kumar
The matter of reservation for dalit christians should not be in the hands of court or the parliament exclusively.It is a matter of public opinio and every citizen of this country has a right to decide how the reservation policy is framed.It is crucial that vested interests alone are not heard, but the voice of every citizen is heard.All along in the name of supremacy of parliament the lives of the ordinary citizens have been mercilessly trampled and vested interests have fashioned a constitution which coccoons them in niches created out of the blood and sweat of millions of hapless and unsuspecting citizens of this country.The end result is that entire political class, the government machinary and all government funded agencies are filled with parasites and absolutely immoral depredators at every rung leading to almosat complete breakdown of governance right from the block level to the centre in Delhi.Why should the productive and economically contributing class be a silent spectator in this most crucial issue? So logically neither the parliament nor the SC have exclusive right to decide on such crucial issues.The voice of the people (by referendum)is the only way to decide.
It should not be given. Once they become Christians then they are part of the local church and community and would get financial assistance also in addition to other facilities like admissions to convent schools run by christian missionaries.In most of the cases they get a lot of financial assistance from foreign funds.
It will open a pandora's box. We should make many changes to constitution as envisaged by its founding fathers. How much ever we talk of equality we should remember that once conversion takes place these people no longer can relate to Indian culture and would be following a foreign culture with pope as its head.
I am from AP and frankly most of the converted christians just have "hindu" as their religion with names like "yesu, yesuratnam, yesudas, johnson etc etc" otherwise they would be treated as BC's rather than SC's.
I pray that in the name of secularism India should not become a irreligious state. Remember for all the praise in English press for Bobby Jindal, would he have become an MP if he was not a christian (but for votes of Indian community he still says his parents are hindus). Hindus are easy fodder for everyone and it is high time we stop that
I do not see this as an issue at all, leave alone its being a crucial one. When they convert thinking that they wll be able to shed their castes and the baggage related to it, why should they get benefits of the baggage after conversion?
Also, as far as I know, Christianity does not have or permit castes. Ask the pope in case of queries and concerns. Therefore, the term "Dalit Christian" is a misnomer.
I'm really surprised to hear that Sikh Dalits are given reservation when Sikh leaders and followers shout at the top of their lungs that Sikhism do not believe in caste system. And that theirs is very superior religion. Why double standars. And the same theory goes for Christiaans. People who coverted to Christianity and the people who did the conversion argue that the converts are no longer Dalits. Then why the special treatment. What did these converts get out of Christianity when they are still refered to as dalits?
