Reservations about the reservation controversy
What they are not saying:
Caste system is a social reality and needs to be dealt with. We want it abolished.
We have been guilty of being casteist ourselves and we would like to make amends.
The society is already divided on caste lines and we recognise that. We want all lines to be dissolved.
The industry and other professions haven’t contributed towards social upliftment of the needy classes as much they should have to help the govt.
Why are they not saying it?
(The reasons are highly subjective but let me make a few sure-shot guesses)
They are in denial about the caste-system actually existing in every nook and corner of India (barring a large part of North-eastern India-thank god for that!)
Their education has been so flawed that they have not been sociologically sensitised.
They haven’t travelled across the country beyond the major cities with theme parks and beautiful monuments and not with people other than their own caste/class peers.
They have neither read the constitution nor unbiased historical writings.
Their only goal in life is to secure themselves a way to earn a living.
~So what’s the problem? If you haven’t figured it already, lots!
Problem #1- The politicians:
The politicians are obviously playing the caste politics so that they can get votes and earn a good name for taking up humanitarian measures for the deprived and oppressed sections of Indian society. The govt knows that the bill cannot be stopped in parliament for not only is it in majority but also because the opposition cannot protest against it for ear of being labelled anti-dalit.
The reason could be that the Sarva Siksha Abhiyan and other primary education programs are running slow and not gathering enough attention of the public or the oppressed classes. Also, it is in the CMP to do more for these sections of society. And providing quotas is really really very simple! This is more so, because the caste system is a social reality and a very integral part of traditional Indian society (particularly Hindu society).
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