Friday 30 March, 2007

Reservation in Politics???

I was reading about the stay order by the Supreme Court of India on the extension of Resrvation quota for OBC's being implemented in the institutes like IIT's and IIMs, and its really wonderfull to see the political parties coming to con sensus on the same topic. If they could do so on lot more issues of national interest I am sure India could have been a totally different country all together. The political party in on voice are raising voices against the intervention of judicary in the poilitcal system of India, which for the least have been beneficial for the greater mass in most of the cases. This stay order is an interesting one as it does not rule against the reservation system but has raised the concern over the % of OBC popultaion and questions the base i.e. the 1931 population distribution. So if the political paries can come with the manipulated census indicating the OBC population to be approximately the same as they are forecasting right now, then this stay does not have any significance. The future, of the more deserving, un reserved candidates already fighting for the very few available seats in these institutes, looks to be quite bleak.
Another interesting thought that came to my mind was will these politicians who are standing together for reservations in education and in private jobs will be as willing to have 49.5% reservation in politica also. Will they allow to have half the people coming into Parliament and Legislative Assembly be from the SC, ST and OBC's ? I am sure none of them would even dare to think about such a thing as it would reduce their chance to gain such powerfull positions where they can make the money for their whole life and next 7 births, give all kinds of benefits to their family. At that time they would never think of the equality rights to education and work. If we need reservation in all the other fields than I think we do need reservation in politics also to represnt the "true" India. And most interesting would be the case of T.N which has about 75% reservation :D
Lets see if these politicians have the enough guts to do so.

1 comment:

Arpit said...

another blogger!
great.. lage raho :)