Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Will someone come out with a white paper on this dalit vs brahmin reservation dilemma ? On one hand we have Rohit complaining ( posthumously) about the brahmins depriving him his rights and reservations ( fully supported by Rahul Gandhi & co ); on the other end we have the Patel agitation which complains that so many reservations have been given to others and these have ended up leaving no job space to upper castes ( again fully supported by Rahul Gandhi & co ). There is now a controversy about the Aligarh muslim univ denying reservation to SC/STs ( the university being supported by Rahul G & co since the muslim votebank is larger than the SCs ). Is it not time some one at the top stood up to tell this nation that this whole reservation tamasha has turned us into so many monkeys dancing to the tune of these political madaris and this has to stop ! 
There are things which need to change. The reservation system needs to be applied to weaker sections only upto college beyond which the man must rise by his abilities, reservation beyond that is ending up creating mediocre doctors, engineers to play with our lives. There is also casteism in our offices where people should move up the ladder by virtue of ability, not caste, can one suggest an ombudsman type system in our places of work ? Second, the society needs to make deliberate efforts to do away with casteism. The government making reservations & programmes is not enough, the will has to come from within society and the Leaders & maharishis of hindu society need to start sermonising on encouraging such social change. Will some enlightened maharishi rise to the occassion ? Third, every aspect of our democracy has been subverted by our political class to perpetuate its existence. One would think that a state govt would treat all its citizens, dalits, brahmins, rich and poor equally without fear or favour, that is how democracy is expected to work, but this will not happen if we have politicians being elected by virtue of their caste leanings like Laloo, mulayam, mayawati. It speaks of the depth of perversion to which our society has sunk that Casteist Laloo receves more votes than Nitish the able administrator ! The political system itself needs to change, our multi party system allows any mafia don to start a party and exploit a segment of people as a votebank, maybe a political pundit could suggest a system more suited. The last person to suggest change was Indira Gandhi with her suggestion of a presidential form (with a two party system perhaps)
Someone needs to bell this caste cat, as things stand it is doubtful if a man big enough can be found from within our political parties to suggest this change, one would suggest Kalaam but Kalaam is gone , a wild guess would be the president...
Would it be beyond his duties to provide such direction ?

No comments: