Tamilnadu is in the 'forefront' of 'backwardness'. The decision to include so called minorities in the backward class list is just another vote bank politics and it will further divide the society along caste lines, and bring polaisation of votes. The Chief Minister Karunanidhi recently proudly claimed that the state sponsored bandh against supreme court observations on 27% reservation for B.C's was a great success and the PMK leader Ramadoss said that the bandh has created a sort of awareness through out the country. The poor, innocent & truly backward people, for whom the reservation is required /considered, are suffering in silence without realizing that their political masters are taking them for a solid ride in the name of social justice. Nowhere in the world castes & communities queue up for the sake of getting backward status. Nowhere in the world is there a competition to assert backwardness and then to claim we are more backward than you. The 40 years of Dravidian rule has certainly brought Tamil Nadu to the forefront of backwardness.In Tamil Nadu the numerical strength of lawyers, police men, politicians, etc belonging to so called forward Community( read Brahmin community, since all the remaining communities have been bundled in one backward caste or other) is less than 5% and hence the legal fraternity in the state can be called as "100% backward". It is sad & unfortunate that the God fearing people of Tamil Nadu have not woken up from their deep slumber. May God save Tamil Nadu!