27 % OBC Reservation: Politics Win Over Social Justice

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Supreme_Court_approves_27_OBC_quota/articleshow/2940232.cms

The main reason for India emerging out of economic wilderness is its large educated genext. Imagine the heights we can achieve if the next generation is equipped with quality education based on merit and free from interfering vote seekers like Arjun Singh, Anbumani Ramadoss, Laloo Prasad Yadav and D Raja who won’t think twice before taking the country to dogs with their reservation agenda. If these witless and self seeking politicians were seeking a 27 per cent quota for the deserving out a sense of social responsibility, the folly would have been forgivable. Unfortunately, the Congress and its communist allies have willingly joined the race for vote politics with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) to win the reservation race. That in the bargain the country faces a retrograde future, is of no consequence to them as long as their position in power is ensured. The plight of meritorious candidates deserving admission in these institutes is understandable. But their numbers are small and cannot hold any quid pro quo for the politicians, hence must suffer the unjust treatment silently, now that even the Supreme Court has dashed all their hopes.

The Supreme Court upholding 27 per cent reservations for the OBCs in central educational institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) and All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) is bound to encourage calculating politicians to rely on vote-bank politics to make their way to power rather than quality performance. The only saving grace in the Supreme Court ruling is the exclusion of the creamy layer and children of MPs and MLAs from the 27 % quota. But the country can trust the politician-babu combine to find ways to circumnavigate the Supreme Court rider.

Although the issue has been settled once and for all by the Supreme Court ruling, there is still a way to show dissent for the reservation policy. The people must identify the politicians and political parties favoring the policy and ensure their defeat in the next elections. Arjun Singh, Anbumani Ramadoss, RK Dhawan, Laloo Prasad Yadav, D Raja, Mayawati are some of those who advocate reservation to make a career; Congress, RJD, BSP and the Left parties would bid for reservation again, not out of any sense of social justice, but to win elections and gain power.

Apparantly, Rajeeve Goswami and others who lost their lives in 1989-1990 fighting against reservation were mere sacrificial lambs for the political predators and unconcerned political parties.