Recently in a landmark judgment the honorable Supreme Court of
India quashed the reservation given to the “Jat” community in the jobs
concerning central or union government.
Actually the Jats were given reservation by the UPA government last
year by including them in the OBC (Other Backward Classes) category but the apex
court of the nation slammed the Centre’s decision to overlook the report of an
OBC panel which lucidly stated that “Jats” cannot be included in the central
list of the OBC category. The Supreme Court clearly stated that only caste
cannot be the sole factor in determining the backwardness of people pertinent
to that community and hence Jats cannot be given reservation just because of a
minority category.
Actually the landmark judgment by the Supreme Court stands
justified. For long parties have been including various castes in the OBC
category just to help them get reservation under the Mandal commission
recommendations on OBC reservations. Not only UPA but even NDA government too
supported the reservations of Jat just to garner a vote bank for them too in
states like Haryana etc. where there is a large population of people from Jat
communities.
Actually the whole concept of reservation that is prevalent
in India is somewhat misunderstood by people and hence is always deliberately misinterpreted
by the government in order to make as much vote banks as they want. If we look
on the real meaning of reservation then reservation was meant to be given to poor
only. Our constitution makers after ingeniously mulling over the matter reached
over the conclusion that only those people who have till now not got full
benefits of the things they are entitled to as the citizens of the nation must
be the beneficiaries of reservation and according to me after 67 years of
independence, castes can’t tell whether a person is poor or rich.
Even today many people continue to get reservation on the
politics drafted back in 1950s but surely India is not the same today, India has
undergone so much progress but financially and socially that considering the
old school values to fit correctly today makes no sense but still our politicians
continue to make the old laws carry on just to strengthen up their vote banks
and to secure their place to the parliament, no matter how many people are
being affected badly with it.
If the government is willing to give reservation, give it to
those who really need it, the pauper people. Who can guarantee that a Brahmin
in today’s era can’t be a poor guy and a Shudra can’t be a millionaire but
according to our laws, the Brahmin would never get any reservation but those
who were destined to take it in the 1950s would surely get it no matter even if
they are counted among the richest personalities of the nations or the biggest
politicians in the country.
Those who are currently the beneficiaries of reservation use
it and become successful but then again this thing doesn’t stop here, their
children use it and move up and the chain carries on but on the other hand
those who are not entitled to it continue to reach the nadir. Today children
from wealthy parents despite of scoring low marks get easy admission in
universities, easily get their jobs but children (those not entitled to take up
the benefit of reservation) despite of hailing from impoverished families and
scoring high marks lose out on admissions and jobs. What’s their fault? Aren't they Indians or are they born with some superhuman powers? These nasty
politicians continue to exploit the whole nation on the basis of this thing.
And now even a new trend has come up. Those who are not getting
reservation come on street, block roads and trains, even set public properties
ablaze and forcefully ask for reservation despite of not being impoverished. This
is in itself a new form of extortion which first the government too wants to
give out willfully because it is getting more votes from people from this
community and if Supreme Court passes ruling against such discrimination, government
to woo the community would try to reverse the law in parliament.
And after such things our politicians, our government say
that India is moving ahead and is not behind any other nation. First we divided
nation on the basis of religion, now we dividing on basis of caste. If we
continue to play like puppets in hands of politicians one day we would not
exist to even divide. In fact, this is so much stupidity by NDA as well as UPA
government that such things are allowed to function up. Mr. Modi talks of
making India a vibrant economy but on the other hand his government supports
things like “reservation on castes”. On one hand Mr. Modi talks of making
Indian a global economy and on the other hand his government silently supports “reservation
on basis of caste”. Same with the congress government that ended up last year.
I ask them, what’s the fault of those people who belong from upper caste, are
poor, intelligent, deserving but lose out on jobs from those who are not as
intelligent as them but richer and from lower caste. I don’t mean to saw that
those from lower castes secure places in college; jobs etc. just on the basis
of their caste and are otherwise nothing. There are many people from lower
caste who have been great in various fields and actually those who really
deserve don’t need a reservation to carry on and reservation is actually used
by those who do not deserve.
In today’s era nobody can say that you are rich because you
are a member of upper caste and you are poor because you belong to lower caste
and hence reservation on caste must be banned and if the government still want
to continue it, then it’s nothing less than an act of stupidity not expected
from our leaders who represent us globally.
JAI HIND,
JAI BHARAT
JAI MA
BHARTI
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