To continue from where I left, I am fed up of so called champions of the downtrodden: Mulayam, Lalu, Mayawati, Paswan, to name a few. I am fed up of reservations. If a policy has been followed for 60 years and has not resulted in any progress, then we need to have an overview of the same. I am not against Dalits. I am not one of those who believe that untouchability has ended. But i believe the system of reservation as practiced in India does more harm than good.
The main problem with reservations is that they just keep on increasing. A reservation once introduced is going to be there for eternity. Any talk about removing them and you are insensitive to the suffering of the poor Dalits. We are told about the way they had to suffer for thousands of years. But let me tell you one thing very clearly this system of reservation is the biggest bane for the Dalits/SCs/STs/OBCs only. Why? because the persons taking the maximum advantage of reservations are not the persons who need it. I believe that a person should be able to take the advantage of reservation only once in life. If he has got through an IIT on the basis of reservation, then why should he get the benefit of reservation at the time of post-graduation? Doesn't it imply that the professors at IITs are also partial and were discriminating against him because of his caste? If that were not the case then he would have received the same education as others and so the difference between him and a person of upper caste is because of each's intelligence and hardwork. I am not saying that all lower caste people are fools or all upper caste people are intelligent. But the incentive to work hard is not there for those who get reservation because they know they will get good sarkari jobs even if they get half the marks scored by the topper. Majority of them are not able to realize their full potential. Tell me honestly, if you can get a job by getting 50% why would you work to get 90%? And this does not stop after getting job, they also get preferential treatment at time of promotions. To expect people to give up this benefit on their own is too much to ask. Humans are selfish by nature. Hence, we need better regulations to ensure that same person does not keep on taking benefit of reservations. Also, tell me how is the child of an MP/MLA, Judge, Police Inspector, high ranked bureaucrat or Class A or B govt. employees unprivileged?
But persons like Lalu, Mulayam, Mayawati, Paswan just keep on raising these issues for their own benefits. They don't want these group of people to really advance and come out of poverty and ignorance, they only want them to remain as their vote banks. If you teach a person how to fish, he won't go hungry for the rest of his life but if you prmoise him a free fish everyday, he would become a beggar for his life. And these champions of the backward classes are trying to make more and more people in India beggars for life. Mayawati blames everything that is against her on Manuwadi Soch. According to her all the corruption cases against her are there because the upper classes are not able to digest the fact that a "Dalit ki Beti" is CM. Raja and Kanimozhi also say they are being targeted for being Dalit. Madhu Koda did the same. Mayawati also asks why can't she become PM. I have no problem in having a Dalit PM or a SC PM or a ST PM or a Muslim PM. But I believe that person should not be PM just because he is Dalit, SC, ST or Muslim. If the person is capable, then you make him PM not because he is from a certain caste. I have great reverence for Dr. B R Ambedkar. He was a visionary who played a major role in the framing of our great constitution. But I respect him for his works not because he was Dalit. It is sad that a person of his stature has been stolen from the majority of Indians. Also, Dr. Ambedkar was against permanent reservations, he believed that after some time if we don't remove reservations then Dalits would get used to them and continue to suffer, but these leaders are not interested in welfare of Dalits or other backward classes, they are only interested in getting power so that they can loot the nation. Lalu, Mulayam, Paswan and Mayawati are also sullying the name of great visionaries like JP and Ram Manohra Lohia. For them socialism only means vote-bank politics. The latest example of this was Rahul Baba telling a gathering how their fellow OBC Sam Pitroda was responsible for telecom revolution in India. What does Sam Pitroda's caste has got to do with the work he did or did not do in telecom revolution?
Now, CONgress is planning to give reservation to Muslims as well. This reservation is both unconstitutional and bad for the social fabric of the country. It will only increase the trust deficit between the two communities. So why is CONgress doing it? Because sadly majority of Indians (irrespective of caste, religion, gender, age, educational qualifications, region etc) are ignorant fools. To not talk about politics is fashionable among educated youths. You ask them 'why didn't you vote', you get the standard replies "ek vote se kya hota hain", "arrey all these politicians are bad", "politics in India is very dirty, don't want to get involved with that", "kuch nahi badlega" etc. Those who can make a difference are indifferent. While those who vote are ignorant. These politicians ask for your vote on the basis of caste, religion or dynasty. And the worst part is they get votes on these issues as well.
These persons talking on the behalf of Muslims and other downtroddens are really insulting the intellect and loyalty of the very group of persons they are representing. To think that Indian Muslim would feel pained when Afzal Guru or Kasab is hanged is a tight slap on the face of majority of Muslims, whose allegiance is with India. Let me make it clear just as terrorism has no religion, the religion of terrorist shouldn't make a difference to the execution of the punishment. It is good that Kasab is getting a fair trial but now that the trial is over and he has been given death sentence the government should execute the order soon. We are wasting valuable resources in keeping these persons alive and we leave ourselves open to the possibility that there might be another hostage crisis and we may have to trade them.
Another thing that pains me is these liberals, intellectuals, mediapersons, socialist politicians have a problem when Islam is associated with terrorism but have no qualms in using the term Hindu Terrorists or Saffron Terrorism. Just as Osama bin Laden is not speaking on behalf of all the Muslims, Sadhvi Pragya or any other terror suspects was not acting on behalf of all Hindus. I have not attended a single session of RSS but I still respect them because I have seen the good work done by them at the time of Gujarat earthquake and many other calamities. To accuse such an organization of being a terrorist organization is sad. To accuse anyone remotely associated with a terrorist is simply insane. But such is the secularism followed in India.
Jai Hind
The main problem with reservations is that they just keep on increasing. A reservation once introduced is going to be there for eternity. Any talk about removing them and you are insensitive to the suffering of the poor Dalits. We are told about the way they had to suffer for thousands of years. But let me tell you one thing very clearly this system of reservation is the biggest bane for the Dalits/SCs/STs/OBCs only. Why? because the persons taking the maximum advantage of reservations are not the persons who need it. I believe that a person should be able to take the advantage of reservation only once in life. If he has got through an IIT on the basis of reservation, then why should he get the benefit of reservation at the time of post-graduation? Doesn't it imply that the professors at IITs are also partial and were discriminating against him because of his caste? If that were not the case then he would have received the same education as others and so the difference between him and a person of upper caste is because of each's intelligence and hardwork. I am not saying that all lower caste people are fools or all upper caste people are intelligent. But the incentive to work hard is not there for those who get reservation because they know they will get good sarkari jobs even if they get half the marks scored by the topper. Majority of them are not able to realize their full potential. Tell me honestly, if you can get a job by getting 50% why would you work to get 90%? And this does not stop after getting job, they also get preferential treatment at time of promotions. To expect people to give up this benefit on their own is too much to ask. Humans are selfish by nature. Hence, we need better regulations to ensure that same person does not keep on taking benefit of reservations. Also, tell me how is the child of an MP/MLA, Judge, Police Inspector, high ranked bureaucrat or Class A or B govt. employees unprivileged?
But persons like Lalu, Mulayam, Mayawati, Paswan just keep on raising these issues for their own benefits. They don't want these group of people to really advance and come out of poverty and ignorance, they only want them to remain as their vote banks. If you teach a person how to fish, he won't go hungry for the rest of his life but if you prmoise him a free fish everyday, he would become a beggar for his life. And these champions of the backward classes are trying to make more and more people in India beggars for life. Mayawati blames everything that is against her on Manuwadi Soch. According to her all the corruption cases against her are there because the upper classes are not able to digest the fact that a "Dalit ki Beti" is CM. Raja and Kanimozhi also say they are being targeted for being Dalit. Madhu Koda did the same. Mayawati also asks why can't she become PM. I have no problem in having a Dalit PM or a SC PM or a ST PM or a Muslim PM. But I believe that person should not be PM just because he is Dalit, SC, ST or Muslim. If the person is capable, then you make him PM not because he is from a certain caste. I have great reverence for Dr. B R Ambedkar. He was a visionary who played a major role in the framing of our great constitution. But I respect him for his works not because he was Dalit. It is sad that a person of his stature has been stolen from the majority of Indians. Also, Dr. Ambedkar was against permanent reservations, he believed that after some time if we don't remove reservations then Dalits would get used to them and continue to suffer, but these leaders are not interested in welfare of Dalits or other backward classes, they are only interested in getting power so that they can loot the nation. Lalu, Mulayam, Paswan and Mayawati are also sullying the name of great visionaries like JP and Ram Manohra Lohia. For them socialism only means vote-bank politics. The latest example of this was Rahul Baba telling a gathering how their fellow OBC Sam Pitroda was responsible for telecom revolution in India. What does Sam Pitroda's caste has got to do with the work he did or did not do in telecom revolution?
Now, CONgress is planning to give reservation to Muslims as well. This reservation is both unconstitutional and bad for the social fabric of the country. It will only increase the trust deficit between the two communities. So why is CONgress doing it? Because sadly majority of Indians (irrespective of caste, religion, gender, age, educational qualifications, region etc) are ignorant fools. To not talk about politics is fashionable among educated youths. You ask them 'why didn't you vote', you get the standard replies "ek vote se kya hota hain", "arrey all these politicians are bad", "politics in India is very dirty, don't want to get involved with that", "kuch nahi badlega" etc. Those who can make a difference are indifferent. While those who vote are ignorant. These politicians ask for your vote on the basis of caste, religion or dynasty. And the worst part is they get votes on these issues as well.
These persons talking on the behalf of Muslims and other downtroddens are really insulting the intellect and loyalty of the very group of persons they are representing. To think that Indian Muslim would feel pained when Afzal Guru or Kasab is hanged is a tight slap on the face of majority of Muslims, whose allegiance is with India. Let me make it clear just as terrorism has no religion, the religion of terrorist shouldn't make a difference to the execution of the punishment. It is good that Kasab is getting a fair trial but now that the trial is over and he has been given death sentence the government should execute the order soon. We are wasting valuable resources in keeping these persons alive and we leave ourselves open to the possibility that there might be another hostage crisis and we may have to trade them.
Another thing that pains me is these liberals, intellectuals, mediapersons, socialist politicians have a problem when Islam is associated with terrorism but have no qualms in using the term Hindu Terrorists or Saffron Terrorism. Just as Osama bin Laden is not speaking on behalf of all the Muslims, Sadhvi Pragya or any other terror suspects was not acting on behalf of all Hindus. I have not attended a single session of RSS but I still respect them because I have seen the good work done by them at the time of Gujarat earthquake and many other calamities. To accuse such an organization of being a terrorist organization is sad. To accuse anyone remotely associated with a terrorist is simply insane. But such is the secularism followed in India.
“We have become, perhaps, the only nation in the world where people fight to be called backward rather than forward.“ - N R Narayana Murthy
Jai Hind
