We are probably the only country in the world where masses clash for getting branded as oppressed. They have so much strength to fight for their oppressed rights. There are lot of countries where certain groups were really oppressed, like some tribes in Africa were sold as slaves by the more dominent ones, attempts at ethinic cleansing took place even in the history of Europe, yet there are no reservations based on historical oppression. USA has accorded some benefit to African Americans based on the current state of their being and not any historical oppression. Politicians are not to blame, they are not leaders but are followers, all of them try to play by winning the popular sentiment, some of them succeed sometimes and fail sometimes. The middleclass which voted for BJP, Shiv Sena, TDP now is happily immersed in the bliss of economic development, they are barely able to manage time to spend the monthly salaries in the glittering shopping complexes of the crowded cities leave alone going the polling booth. The politicians are the first to read the signs and hence the new wave of reservations aimed at winning the people likely to vote. This new system will not create more education for the so called oppressed since all the top class institutes of higer education will no more be topclass...as the student composition will no longer be based on merit. However the government machinery will be full of the so called oppressed, the government jobs are ideal ..here one does not
