The lopsided caste-based Reservations are the root cause of the ruckus where vote banks and vote power politics ruled the day.
The shocking pictures of the attacks by the jealous Gujjars & the threats by the Meenas and their show of aggression and the violence, clearly depicts their typically "tribal" characteristics.
Rajasthan Me Aarak-shan Ki Aag http://www.rajasthanpatrika.com/reservation/1.htm
Rediff, why were there no news updates from you till this evening?
Akhil Bharatiya Gujjar Vikas Sanghatan has called for Delhi Bandh tomorrow (Monday).
Gujjar leader Colonel (retd) Kirori Singh Bhainsala, who had said there would be no further talks, after the fifth round failed, has agreed to meet CM Vasundhara Raje once again for talks. Hopefully both sides will try and defuse the alarming situation; as the caste cauldron in Rajasthan remained largely incident-free today (Sunday).
There are reports that CM Raje has agreed to pay Rs 5 lakhs for each Dead Gujjar. She may give in to the Gujjars (just or unjust) demands it seems. She may even let some Meenas step down if they really want to, and let them go.
What she needs to do is present both groups with a choice between hegemony and harmony.
But she also needs to explicitly let them know that the Indian Nation, not her State nor any other State, can ever be held to ransom by lumpen elements, and their political goons to dominate and call the shots.
Those -- Tribals and Wannabe Tribals -- who broke the law, hurt inhumanly their fellow men and their livelihoods, damaged private and public property for their own selfish reasons must be punished severely. That is, and should be, the most civil thing to do.
Put them behind bars. Now. They have done no good and much harm.
Anybody who expects that, since the NSA has been implemented, the morning after will be the same as the day before, are wrong...and sadly mistaken.
This spark can ignite the country.
Mr Shreekant Joshi, below, has made some keen observations and lighted up the path ahead with very pertinent pointers.
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. That would have been true "affirmative action" on this sub-continent. Not the sort of stuff the Arjun Singh and others have been touting.
Strike while the iron is hot, Rediff. Rise and Shine.
Progress will be real when only the really marginalised people are given the opportunities for upliftment. Peace may then just about return.
RE:RE:RE:Diatribe.
by keshav kumar on Jun 04, 2007 11:02 AM Permalink
DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN OF YOUR OWN ? DO YOU LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM? DO YOU WANT THEM TO PROGRESS OR RUIN THEM? IF YOUR CHILDREN MAKE DEMANDS WOULD YOU KILL THEM AND HIT ON THEM THEIR HEADS FOR HOSPITALISATION ?
RE:Diatribe.
by keshav kumar on Jun 04, 2007 11:02 AM Permalink
DO YOU HAVE CHILDREN OF YOUR OWN ? DO YOU LOVE THEM OR HATE THEM? DO YOU WANT THEM TO PROGRESS OR RUIN THEM? IF YOUR CHILDREN MAKE DEMANDS WOULD YOU KILL THEM AND HIT ON THEM THEIR HEADS FOR HOSPITALISATION ?
