It may sound provocative yet it is true. On the contrary, demand and statutory enforcement of reservation policy are outrageous in nature. It is a dole extended by the nation to those who may not deserve it at all. With very low marks, joining IITs/IIMs/AIIMS/PGI, holding the chair of Foreign Secretary and behaving strangely before foreign diplomats, playing sectarian politics in every organisation wherever they are…many times not allowing others to work etc., are tales that are often heard from responsible ones endlessly, in addition to the corruption imbued with a sense of vengeance (Politicians like Mayawati/A. Raja are remarkable examples in this regard) prevailing among them, are truly disturbing to say the least. When you are gifted something on a platter without struggle or hard work, without paying its price, you are sure to make a mockery of all those privileges meant to be invoked to serve the nation. Those are inevitable consequences that quota-beneficiaries have been indulging in almost all organisations wherever they are.
Reservation is an alms that cannot be compared with subsidy because beneficiaries largely do not contribute anything concrete to nations progress. It is a way of ensuring that the society/nation remain backward (not even mediocre) by wasting national resources on frivolity. Huge amount of talent has already been ruined in the country since enforcement of reservation in past seven decades of our independence. Even then, our moronic politicians are deliberately keeping their eyes tightly shut.
Reservation destroys self-respect, dignity and the sense of honour for themselves. Even the famished, starving ones wish to be respected, earn before enjoying. Reservation debilitates them on mental/psychological level. Worst aspect of reservation is the strange creature called CREAMY LAYER !! They crave to remain backward eternally. To continue enjoying reservation everywhere, creamy layer contested, resisted every onslaught tooth and nail, even up to the level of Supreme Court ! Can you expect an IAS probationer selected under quota to submit an undertaking to Government declaring that his/her family would no more claim reservation benefits ?? No such magnanimity has been heard by anyone so far.
Whenever reservationists find themselves cornered on issues as diverse as performance appraisal or indiscipline, they brazenly flash “DALITA-VICTIM-DISCRIMINATION-PERSECUTION CARD” to carry on with their unacceptable activities/demands much to the detriment of organisation. This is an audacity that deserves to be tackled sternly. Often, frivolous complaints against ‘casteist conduct’ is lodged whenever management acts to discipline them. An instance of the complaint filed against Vice Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University who acted tough to discipline an errant quota benefited employee as reported in newspapers, is immensely worrisome. Long ago, even UTI Chairman was in the dock owing to such a frivolous complaint. Such irresponsible complaints damage organisations to no limits. Prolonged reservation has already antagonised so-called Savarna-s and pitted them against so-called Dalita-s. It is one of the most unfortunate developments in this country that has taken place owing to irrational policies of vote-hungry divisive governments. With reservations, we are simply back to square one with respect to caste/class tension throughout society.
Seven decades of open-ended reservation is truly moronic. Those who support reservation are not well-wishers of the nation and those who enjoy, want to enjoy perpetually, are nothing short of determined parasites. Reservations in government, PSUs has led to exodus of talent/excellence to private sector and abroad. Quality of governance has gone down the hill. There are some worthies who are demanding reservation in private sector too, out of sheer frustration because reservation in government/PSUs has failed to meet their myopic mirage of utopian equality. Reservation can never succeed simply because the concept itself is absolutely wrong and diabolical in nature. It is yet another way to plunder and destroy the nation. Political unworthies have created a Vote-Treasure on the lines of British White ‘DIVIDE & RULE’ Policy. Reservation in private sector shall not improve their lot. In turn, it will destroy the private sector too. What will happen then ?? There shall be a mass exodus of talent and capital to foreign countries and economic growth shall come to a grinding halt. What shall be then, left to reserve for reservationists ?? The tell-tale “Pancatantra” story of Bihar under benign leaderships of destructive, casteist politicians shall be replicated, transplanted at the national level and the whole nation would become a cesspool of miseries like Bihar. These ‘visionaries’ destroyed all centres of excellence in Bihar in order to meet their agenda of vengeance i.e. ‘REVERSE JUSTICE’ leading to mass-migration from all over Bihar in very large numbers. The State is yet to recover from Karoori Thakur/Lalloo Yadava brand of ‘social engineering’. It is not that so-called Dalita-s are recovering their imaginary, so-called ‘Long-Outstanding Dues’ from the so-called upper-caste for their so-called past sins. It is only that the nation is bleeding profusely, bleeding to mediocrity, backwardness and wretchedness.
Reservationists appear to be sponsored by hostile, anti-national forces based overseas to ensure, nation remain backward, fail to rise to attain full potential and become a world power. So long as reservation is there, national talent shall continue migrating abroad, work for other countries at discriminatory wages.
The issue of reservation is now drifting in a dangerous direction with the demand of reservation for ‘Dalita-Muslims & Dalita-Christians’. If Islam & Christianity have failed so miserably to ameliorate their lot, then why should they not revert to Sanatana Dharma before demanding reservation ?? Why are they continuing as Dalita-Muslims and Dalita-Christians then ?? That should be the stern pre-condition to tackle the sinister demand of religion based reservation.
Reservation for so-called OBC-s is entirely irrational and absurd. So-called OBC-s were never backward, have been land-owners and well-to-do segments of the populace. Their past track-record of contribution to society in various white-collar professions has always been too glorious to justify their demand for reservation. There have been several Kings from OBCs who deftly ruled over and defended Sanatana Dharma outstandingly. They do not need, do not deserve reservation at all. They are a brilliant lot capable of leading the nation to glory from the forefront. Reservation for SCs/STs was visualised for those who were deprived of physical assets, self-respect and dignity while OBCs always possessed these assets and now they naggingly wish to barter that with white-collar urban jobs. Dr. Ambedkar was a visionary who mandated periodic review of reservation as his aim was to uproot casteism from society. Diametrically opposite is the objective of Mandal Commission, to preserve OBC castes and raise an empire of quotas based on that, perpetuate till eternity !! Commission based it on the dubious social backwardness criteria in spite of their educational and economic advancements.
BJP have been demanding Uniform Civil Code for better unification of the country. Why not Uniform Socio-Economic Development Code instead of Uniform Civil Code, to exclude the menace of reservation, exclusivity for every section of society ?? Why should BJP support reservation at all, of all political parties ?? How long and up to what extent this dragon of reservation spew fire upon the nation ? Who is being incinerated by this fire of reservation ? Country and so-called Dalita-s, of course. No one else. So-called Dalita-s are humiliating themselves more and more by depending upon reservation instead of standing-up and struggling to prove their worth in gold. In this mystical world, there is a bill to be paid for every breath inhaled inside your lungs. Nothing is free, absolutely nothing. And they wish to enjoy the dole of reservation indefinitely, without any significant contribution !! I hope they are aware, we all have to pay back for all benefits incurred, across several lives. The principal of Cause & Effect is a scientifically and universally accepted axiom, sacrosanct and inviolable.
The only level-headed, far sighted policy to address the issue effectively is massive meaningful investment in economic & non-economic affirmative actions coupled with scrapping of reservation altogether. Economic measure may be something like a Dedicated Backward-Caste Development Tax. Former President R. Venkataraman set a brilliant example of non-economic affirmative action when he threatened to lead a delegation of so-called Dalita devotees into Nathdwara Temple in Rajasthan to smash autocratic, casteist rules of the Temple imposed by Pujari-s prohibiting entry of so-called Dalita-s. I must add a word of caution. We must not follow what Karunanidhi did in Tamil Nadu in the name of upliftment of Dalita-s through non-economic affirmative actions. Indian Express, Chennai edition published a photograph few years ago, showing a Dalita-Pujari worshipping potrait of Karunanidhi hanging on the temple-wall, inside Garbha-Griha, well over the Sivalingam, much to the humiliation, embarrassment and chagrin of Bhagavana Siva !!!
Reservation works well only in Mamata Banerjees Duranto-s and Praful Patels commercial flights diverted from Coimbatore to Chennai by his daughter !!! But there too, you have to pay extra for that !!! Only if the so-called visionary Nehru had resorted to the policy of affirmative actions way back in fifties, nation would not have known Mandal-Reservation at all. There was hardly any agitation when Dr. Ambedkar introduced reservation for SCs/STs decades ago contrary to Mandal agitation for OBCs. I am astounded and aghast to observe that even enlightened people have demanded reservation albeit based on economic criteria. Reservation on the basis of economic parameters is all the more irrational. Economic criteria can be addressed only through economic affirmative measures and not by promoting mediocrity through reservations. I certainly expect them to be far greater visionaries than what they are purported to be at present as any nationalist worth his / her salt, would oppose reservation stridently in the interest of this nation. We all must be RESOLUTE BELIEVERS in the culture of MERITOCRATIC EXCELLENCE alone.
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