The lopsided caste-based Reservations are the root cause of the ruckus where vote banks and vote power politics ruled the day.
Those -- Tribals and Wannabe Tribals -- both of whom, according to their websites -- Meena Samaj website and also the Gurjjar Community Site -- are prosperous communities, who have already broken the law earlier; inhumanly hurt their Indians and their livelihoods; damaged private and public property (in late May and June this year) for their own selfish reasons. They must be punished severely. Preventive Detention of all their leaders -- both of Meenas and Gujjars, in one stinky 'kothri' . That would be, and should be, the most civil thing to do now before they get out-of-hand again.
Put them behind bars. Now.
They have done no good and much harm to private and public property earlier. Any one who expects it will be a peaceful stir are wrong...and sadly mistaken.
This spark can ignite the country again ! The law of the land should be enforced vigorously !!
Please Rediff, the public debates here are too often obsessed with the bogeymen of the past. I urge you to work with all the powers at your command to evolve the much-needed consensus. Sixty years have already been WASTED BY VESTED INTERESTS. Fifty years ago the divide-and-rule policies should have been reviewed and purged out of our democratic system on grounds of social justice.
