I've written a lot about the whole quota issue, and frankly, I am getting more and more disenchanted by it every passing day. Apparently, the protesting people don't mean a thing to the government, because for them, this whole quota issue is a 'closed' chapter. So all the youth of this country who feel let down can go home and prepare to be pawns in this great game of vote bank appeasement. The Prime Minister came out with a statement that he has not been silent on the whole issue, and that the issue is final. I wonder why the Prime Minister needed to make a statement in the first place defending his position on the issue. I think its because of that same old charge that has been brought up again and again, its the Madame that runs the show, and Arjun Singh is definitely a more thoroughbred buttkisser than dear PM can ever dream to be.
I'm not silent, quota is final: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally broke his silence on the reservation issue and made clear that the decision to implement 27 per cent quota for Other Backward Classes in institutes of higher learning was final. Asked as to why he had remained conspicuously silent on the issue so far, Prime Minister said it was not correct to say he had been "silent or not visible" on the issue.
"I have earlier appealed twice. I once again appeal to call-off their agitation and we will find a viable and credible way to protect the interest of all," he said.
Outlining the future course of action, Singh assured that the Government would set up committees of vice-chancellors of Central universities and directors of Indian Institutes of Management and Indian Institutes of Technology. This will be done to facilitate the increase in infrastructure in all these institutions in a manner that the interest of all groups of students is protected.
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So there you go, how dare we say the PM was silent! He asked the protesting youth to calm down, twice! But I must commend the excellent job Mrs. Gandhi is doing behind the scenes. Not once during the whole charade has her name cropped up, as if she is not a part of this entire episode. Very well played Ma'am, but unlike what your yesman, Arjun Singh, might say, this issue is far from over.
I came across this nice article by a retired IAS officer, Mr. V Sundaram. Undoubtedly he is one of those anti-minorities who is opposed to this whole quota BS, and his sarcasm is biting. We all know of the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy of 1919, that heinous act that sparked this nation's quest for freedom. The way Reginald Dyer killed the innocent Indians in that public park in Amritsar, the same way Arjun Singh is plotting to kill the millions of youth in this entire country. From now on, we should not identify ourselves as Indians, but of the caste we belong to, because for the Government, that is a more important identification.
On Baisakhi day on 13 April, 1919 about 25,000 men, women and children, including Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians had gathered for a peaceful protest meeting against a set of draconian laws known as the Rowlatt Acts which gave the British rulers sweeping powers such as press censorship, detention without trial, and arrest without warrant. A British officer called Brig-Gen Reginald Dyer, blocked the only exit from the enclosure and, without any warning, ordered his troops to fire into the crowd. This sparked off the freedom movement under the magnificent leadership of Mahatma Gandhi.
The Jallianwala Bhag record of British Raj will be put to shame from June, 2007 when our Human Resource Destruction (HRD) Minister wants to install the Congress monarchy sponsored anarchy of Quota Raj. Brig-Gen Reginald Dyer killed only 379 people or a little more than that on 13 April, 1919 at Jallianwala Bhag. By launching Quota Raj from next year, Arjun Singh wants to deal a death blow to the flower of India's youth who want to compete and survive in a competitive world of intelligence and knowledge.
A political war in India is one in which everyone shoots from the lip. The UPA Government's political machine is a united minority against a divided majority. For petty politicians like Arjun Singh, politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
I am not therefore surprised that National Knowledge Commission Convenor Pratap Bhanu Mehta and another member, world famous Sociologist Andre Beteille have resigned from the panel over the on-going Quota Raj Reservation Controversy, declaring that quotas in elite institutions violate the cardinal principles of a knowledge-based society.
In his resignation letter Prof Andre Beteille has clearly indicated that the quota proposal is a cynical misrepresentation of recently-enacted provisions of the Constitution. In his view, any such policy would be unwise and has clearly stated that caste-based quotas are not mandatory under the Constitution. Pratap Bhanu Mehta has said that the government's measures are not based on an assessment of effectiveness and the whole proposal of Arjun Singh is incompatible with the freedom and diversity of national institutions of excellence. According to him, such a move would thoroughly politicise the educational process, injecting an 'insidious poison' that would harm the nation's long-term interests apart from the fact that such measures would never lead us to social justice.
Arun Shourie in his brilliantly written piece ?The State as Charade? V P Singh, Chandrasekar and the rest? quoted from the Mandal Commission Report based on which the fraudulent superstructure of Quota Raj is being raised by the Human Resource Destruction Ministry today. Mandal wrote: 'In the end it may be emphasised that this survey has 'NO PRETENSIONS TO BEING A PIECE OF ACADEMIC RESEARCH'.
On the basis of such an 'unscientific' and inaccurate report, the fate of 'yet-to-be-born' are being decided in an authoritative manner by a minority Government in 'SECULAR INDIA' today. In an incisive article in the print media recently, on this subject, Dr P V Indiresan, former Director, IIT (Chennai), wrote: 'Reservation in Tamilnadu can also be declared as a failure on two counts: Even after three-quarters of a century, the backward castes are unwilling to compete openly. There are third, even fourth generation beneficiaries of reservation who are unable to get over their dependence on the handicaps reservation provides for them. It appears reservation is a crutch, not a remedy.'
Arjun Singh wants to provide a crutch, not to the genuinely physically handicapped or the genuinely economically handicapped persons in India but to the politically-sponsored, politically promoted and politically sustained so called backward classes of India which is just a sordid creation of our political parties for being used as powerful instruments of caste-based vote-bank politics.
As a natural corollary of the Reservation Principle, teaching posts have been reserved on caste basis in India. That is a cardinal error. What our students need most are the best teachers available, not the least qualified ones.
I am imagining what will India be like after sixty years in 2066 when Arjun Singh's dream of total Human Resource Destruction based on Quota Raj would have been realised in full measure: At an Alumni meeting to be held on 1 January, 2066, I expect to participate not as one belonging to OBCs (Other Backward Castes) but as one belonging to MBFCs (Moderately Backward Forward Castes) along with my friends belonging to the NSTs ('Non-Scheduled Tribes') then expected to be in a political league with the OBCs.
Further, I cannot help visualising a non-secular, non-communal proposal in the Human Resources Destruction Ministry for coming out with a nationally declared National Anthem of Quota Raj. It is called Arjun Singh's Anthem 'Disunited Heart'. It runs as follows:
May we be secularly disunited in heart
May we be secularly disunited in speech
May we be secularly disunited in mind and mindlessness
May we be secularly disunited in our prayer
May we be secularly disunited in our goal
May we be secularly disunited in our resolve and irresolution
May we be secularly disunited in our misunderstanding
May we be secularly disunited in our offering
May we be secularly disunited in our feelings
May we be secularly disunited in our hearts
May we be secularly disunited in our thoughts
May there be perfect unity of heart, mind and soul and body if alive
Only in our solemn commitment to Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka
To the complete and total exclusion of Bharat Mata!
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