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Caste-based Reservations Demands Increasing
DeeptiA
To say that caste-based reservations demands are increasing is probably a major under-statement, given the events so far over the 2 separate agitations that have taken place in 2007 and 2008. Crores worth of public property have been destroyed, the railways have suffered massives losses, both because of destruction of railways lines and equipment and due to large scale cancellation of trains. Tourism in the region will take a knock (especially with the bombs of just a few weeks back in Jaipur) with advisories already having been issued and coverage of these protests in the international media; and normal people have been put to massive hardships. But, this is not the end. As long as the politics of reservation continues to be patronized by various Governments, they will face such issues. For example, who would have believed that the North East could see such a problem:
SHILLONG: As protests of the Gujjars, who are demanding ST status, spread to fresh areas, the community living in the North-East will also take up the cudgels and launch an agitation in support of the cause.There is no good solution. If the Government bows down to these demands and grants them the ST status (it makes no logic to give the Gujjar community an ST tag, the only reason is that the Jats have been granted OBC, and hence the Gujjar community sees the ST as a way to get more benefit of reservations, and hence these pressure tactics of violence). If they do get such benefits, then other communities will also want to avail of similar benefits, and this is a very slippery slope to go down. Already, both the Central and Rajasthan government have come under fire for letting the agitations causing so much disturbance.
Representatives of the community from the entire region met in Guwahati on Friday to chalk out a programme to join the protests.
The courts also know this, and from time to time, they have asked the Governments about whether there is plan to take empowered communities out of the net so that only the truly backward get such benefits, but any political party will find it suicidal to remove reservations for any benefit. And yet, parties continue on this policy, well knowing that any benefit is only transient, and other parties will also try to garner the same benefit. As an example of Governments trying to provide reservations even when courts have ruled against this, here is an example of the Tamil Nadu Government providing reservations on the basis of religion:
The Tamil Nadu government on Friday issued orders to "ensure" that Muslims and Christians got 3.5% reservation each in government services to overcome some 'practical problems' faced by the two communities in availing the benefit.The Andhra Pradesh Government attempts in this regard have been periodically rejected by courts, yet here is another State Government trying the same.
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Pingu
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May 31, 2008
12:28 PM
See there will be riots anyways. If gujjars get the ST status, they will "steal" the jobs of the meenas , both the communities belonging to Raj, and hence there will be a meena backlash there. Otherwise gujjars will periodically portray their outrage at the so called "injustice" and come out on the streets of gurgaon.
Atlantean
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June 2, 2008
10:05 AM
I want to become a Gurjar. I'll get ST status - lots of jobs, schemes, scholarships. Life ban jayega. Yay!
Atlantean
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June 2, 2008
10:12 AM
Hey Sujai... wherever you are (long time!), are we all blood thirsty upper caste Hindu fascists now that we oppose the Gurjars' violent blackmail of the govt. demanding ST status?
Chandra
June 2, 2008
11:20 AM
This is called the race to the bottom :-)
Man Singh
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June 2, 2008
02:11 PM
Being native of North Indian rural India, I have a grassroot information which communities stand where.
Yadav, Jat, Gujjar and Kurmi the major communities enjoying the malai of OBC quota , all are landlords.
Jats Gujjars and Yadavs has been kings and rulers.
No so called `Brahmins' barred them from taking education , temple entry or declared them untouchable.
then based on what logic landlords should be given reservation.
SC/ST reservation is understandable. OBC reservation should be limited to landless communities no matter which cast they belong to as in rural Area the only criteria to determine status is determined by land ownership.
In a village known as Naangal people from weavers community are landlords as a reward to them to save life of a British soldier during 1857.
Children of landlords always bully the children of landless. I myself is victim of the same. These bullying landlord kids never study sincerely due to their tendency to do dadagiri.
Allowing reservation to Landlords in the name of their educational backwardness is like rewarding for their Bullying and dadagiri.
Man Singh
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June 2, 2008
02:15 PM
Being native of North Indian rural India, I have a grassroot information which communities stand where.
Yadav, Jat, Gujjar and Kurmi the major communities enjoying the malai of OBC quota , all are landlords.
Jats Gujjars and Yadavs has been kings and rulers.
No so called `Brahmins' barred them from taking education , temple entry or declared them untouchable.
then based on what logic landlords should be given reservation.
SC/ST reservation is understandable. OBC reservation should be limited to landless communities no matter which cast they belong to as in rural Area the only criteria to determine status is determined by land ownership.
In a village known as Naangal people from weavers community are landlords as a reward to them to save life of a British soldier during 1857.
Children of landlords always bully the children of landless. I myself is victim of the same. These bullying landlord kids never study sincerely due to their tendency to do dadagiri.
Allowing reservation to Landlords in the name of their educational backwardness is like rewarding for their Bullying and dadagiri.
I am sure Col Bainsla could have opened few schools and led a movement of deaddiction of his community from Desi Sharab that's killing community.
Its so poor in taste to hear that ex-army officer is leading such a narrow castis compaign and media and so called intellectuals are not speaking against as they do in case of any demand by Hindus as a whole?
Gill
June 2, 2008
04:23 PM
Gujjars are a Kshatriya sub-caste and so are Yadavs... and they are both very power both in terms of resources and numbers..... So whats this crap about OBC or OB or ST status......
Bottom line this is all "results" of "Nehruvism"......
And the best one is someone trying to make the victim of "blood thirsty upper caste Hindu fascists"........Long live fetish "Nehruvism"!!!!!!!!!!!
Gill
June 2, 2008
04:23 PM
Gujjars are a Kshatriya sub-caste and so are Yadavs... and they are both very power both in terms of resources and numbers..... So whats this crap about OBC or OB or ST status......
Bottom line this is all "results" of "Nehruvism"......
And the best one is someone trying to make them victim of "blood thirsty upper caste Hindu fascists"........Long live fetish "Nehruvism"!!!!!!!!!!!
Gill
June 2, 2008
04:23 PM
Gujjars are a Kshatriya sub-caste and so are Yadavs... and they are both very power both in terms of resources and numbers..... So whats this crap about OBC or OB or ST status......
Bottom line this is all "results" of "Nehruvism"......
And the best one is someone trying to make them victim of "blood thirsty upper caste Hindu fascists"........Long live fetish "Nehruvism"!!!!!!!!!!!
ranjeev yadav
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October 18, 2008
04:33 AM
yes gujjars and jat and yadav are royal caste but they need OBC quota because they are back
ranjeev yadav
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October 18, 2008
04:33 AM
yes gujjars and jat and yadav are royal caste but they need OBC quota because they are back
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