Not by providing good schools, primary health centres, good roads, continuous supply of electricity and a sound agricultural sector BUT by setting the cat of "reservations" amongst the pigeons, the ill-informed people of India. The electoral strategy of the Congress Pary, now copied by SP, DMK and a whole lot of these modern rulers of India, is quite simple: Keep the Hindu votes DIVIDED, appeal ONLY to the numerous caste in each state AND appeal to the Muslim vote-bank by keeping the Mullah's happy. Marshall the support of the Marxist historians and social activists like Arundhati Roy to show that all of India's troubles were, and still are, entirely due to the caste system. A system that the brahmins, who made their way into India via the Khyber Pass, "flaged off" with Manu selling copies of his Smriti in street corners. Of course, the simple, egalitarian people of India, decided to give up on their idyllic paradise of equality, they enjoyed before the brahmins came, to opt for this inequitous system. With that view of history, it is easier to win elections through constant caste fights set off amongst the Hindus. In the Congress dictionary, whoever tries to unite the Hindus is "communal". Muslim parties are Congress' allies in upholding "secularism" - which is what Rajeev Gandhi was doing when he denied a poor talaqued muslim woman, Shah Bano, her monthly paisa from her former husband so that she can buy food. Helping her would not help Congress to win the muslim votes, se
