They say the Communists have the best brains in Parliament. Well, Prakash Karat made a very valid point today when he opposed the Supreme Court's judgment staying the 27% reservation in institutes of higher education.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist also had strong words on the judgment with party general secretary Prakash Karat calling it 'unfortunate and uncalled for.'He said that already several states had implemented reservation on the basis of OBC lists even in Central services and wondered what the problem in extending it to educational institutions was.
Karat's right. If the SC's objection is that the census data on which the percentage of OBCs in the population is based on is outdated, then the OBC quota in Government jobs in the 1990s in the wake of the Mandal report also ought to have been quashed with the same argument. Karat is right because the SC's stay is over an non-issue. By questioning merely the veracity of the data, rather than the basis for reservation itself, the SC has implicitly acquiesced to the Centre's twisted logic for the implementation of quotas.
There's a strange incongruity in the rationale for celebrations in the anti-quota camp today and the SC judgment. Somehow people don't seem to get it. I've heard "anti-quota spokesmen" (where did that epithet come from?) from across the social spectrum laud the SC for recognizing that "caste-based reservations only serve to divide the country". The SC has done nothing of the sort. How long will it take for a Government hell-bent on the idea of Quota to come up with more accurate figures?
The debate ought to be on the very raison d'être of reservations, not mere technicalities like this one.
There's a strange incongruity in the rationale for celebrations in the anti-quota camp today and the SC judgment. Somehow people don't seem to get it. I've heard "anti-quota spokesmen" (where did that epithet come from?) from across the social spectrum laud the SC for recognizing that "caste-based reservations only serve to divide the country". The SC has done nothing of the sort. How long will it take for a Government hell-bent on the idea of Quota to come up with more accurate figures?
The debate ought to be on the very raison d'être of reservations, not mere technicalities like this one.
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3 comments:
Rahul , I would like to know how many Commies you know to make a comment that they are the brightest , i come from a Commie ruled state and therefore trust me I know how decadent the CPI(M) are ....
Furthermore the OBC reservation is based on faulty design parameters , poverty is endemic in India and one is not poor because one is backward , for all you know there may not be any correlation between the two , so thankfully the SC has come up with the right speedbrakers to stop this nonsense
Bastard like Karat or you, No doubt you are another communist pig from Kerala. Days are started counting in West Bengal, soon communists will be buried across the country.
Rahul, I wonder if you are using some census of IQ of the parlimentarians to come to the conclusion that the Communist Party members are the brightest. If so, then it should be revised along with census on the population of India. Romantic as it may seem, upholding a forlorn ideology serves no purpose in India in this generation.
Also, the Supreme Court is not an insitution to get into the debate of whether reservation is good for the country or not. That is upto the legislature. Obviously seeing that the legislature is full of incompetent populists/communists (including the bright ones) the Supreme Court can only challenge the bill on grounds of technicalities. Unless, you are suggseting that the division of powers of the Judiciary and legislature be ignored.
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