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.
Fifty years ago the divide-and-rule policies should have been reviewed and purged out of our democratic system on grounds of social justice. That would have been true "affirmative action" on this sub-continent; not the gobbledygook that Arjun Singh and others have been touting.
For far too long we have allowed our 'leaders' to herd the masses via reservations based on religion and caste-based political trickery.
The 'leaders' have got away scot-free after sparking hatred between communities while the burning issues of poverty alleviation and bigger better opportunities for ALL who really need affirmative upliftment, have been relegated to the road side as vote-banks.
Sometime back one of our Supreme Court Judges had gone on record, saying: "Nowhere else in the world do castes, classes or communities queue up for the sake of gaining backward status. Nowhere else in the world is there competition to assert backwardness and then to claim we are more backward than you....the creamy layer rule is a necessary bargain between the competing ends of caste based reservations and the principle of secularism."
Strike while the iron is hot, Rediff. Rise and Shine.
Progress will be real when only the 'really marginalised, truly needy' people are given the opportunities for upliftment. Peace may then just about return.
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by Pankaj on Dec 18, 2007 09:48 PM Permalink
Hi DARA,
I totally agree with you. The funny part of this happenings is that now EVERYONE wants to be get into ST/SC categories, whereas it was a taboo way back in India.
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by mahesh kumawat on Dec 18, 2007 11:04 PM Permalink
Considering that everyone wants to be either in OBC or SC/ST category, these categories should be called elite ones. Since these are elite categories, they dont need reservation any more!
