says rediff and economic times puts its well. This comes close on the heels of an announcement by Arjun singh abt reservations in IITs/IIMs and other central institutes.
Obviously, all these reservation moves are aimed at 'minority community' votes. What I find unbelievable is the direction of vote bank politics. Let us analyze the premise for reservations: people from backward classes dont fair well because of socio-economic reasons and hence need a push to ensure that they are 'well represented' in most fields. Agreed. So, this means that 'majority community' is omnipresent because of whatever reasons and to strike a balance we will take away something from majority community and give it to minority community. Logically, isn't this a political suicide? You are trying to appease minority community at the cost of majority community? A second standard kid can say which community has more votes and 'arithmetically' speaking, whom should you try to win over. The other possible explanations for wooing minority community could be that political parties have taken majority community for granted or political parties are very confident of majority community support for some reason(which i can't make out)...wait a minute..is minority community really a minority community in terms of population or more precisely, population that actually votes?
Disclaimer: Strictly speaking, I am not against reservations, I am just against the way it is being implemented and in this post I am not hinting that majority community should raise in protest or some such thing..I was just wondering about the arithmetic of vote bank politics.
PS:some stupid thing happened with blogger and i lost my previous post. Fortunately, I had copied it before publishing..but if the same post appears twice..blame it on blogger.
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There is no majority community, all they have in common is that they have enough sub-castes and enough differences among them, that a politician can exploit it at will.
For reservation, ideally(wishful thinking) there should be a quantifiable metric of how a given reservation policy actually benefits people. If it doesn't then other alternatives like rewarding meritorious students can be tried.
mera do paisa.
Sudeep : You have got it wrong. As Kummi puts it there is majority religion - but there are several backward castes in this and the reservations are meant for these people. Essentailly its tapping the vote bank of these ppl, who form about 90% of the Hindus.
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