I write now with a heavy heart. Whenever this topic is raised by a person, the discussion ends with a few fanatic people stressing on their point of view without thinking about others, and end up hurting sentiments, fueling more ire from others.
I was going through an article where a person was stating his anger on the merit students association's demands of reservation roll back. There was a well written thought provoking reply from a lady who said that because of few reservations, many merit students suffer a lot of injustice. The author replied back saying that she was arrogant about her merit!!!
I regret reading that post.... When you read an article, please try to empathize with the author. Try to understand his feelings,rather than giving blunt replies because the authors views are different from yours.
I come from a forward community and would have been placed better in my life without reservations! But that would really be injustice as a few really backward people got seats, and I am happy for them. I know of people a lot of backward people who genuinely benefited because i lost, and i am actually happy. It really doesn't matter to me that I did my MBBS from Coastal AP because i lost my seat in Hyderabad to reservations. Many people who deserved reservation got it.
I don't think the problem lies in reservations or our view on reservations. Reservation is a potential vote bank issue in India, and politicians have to use it! What happened to the BJP govt. that tried to impose economic backward class reservations, regardless of the caste???
Why the hell do you think Chiranjeevi wants to include the Kapu community into BCs in AP??? I agree many people in that community may have limited resources, but so do a lot of reddys, brahmins, rajus, choudaries so on and so forth. It was his ticket to the polls. He expected that kapu community would vote for him just for that issue. Some of my friends too were happy about it as they would not have to compete in open competition for a PG seat. It is a totally different issue that his polls bombed because of various reasons.
I don't agree with people who say "yeh india hai bhai.... yahaan sadiyon se aisaa hio ho raha hai, aur aisa hi hoga".... somebody has to start a change.
I totally welcome a gradual repealing of the current reservation system and adding up more reservations for the economically backward classes. This has to be done by a committee of highly learned unbiased scholars. But then, as soon as the committee is declared, there will be a huge outcry on WHY THE GOVT. DID NOT ENSURE THAT THE COMMITTEE WAS COMPOSED OF PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT CASTES ACCORDING TO THEIR RESERVATIONS???
FUNNY. ISN'T IT?
No matter how far the issue travels, it will end where it began....
BACK TO SQUARE ONE....
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