The shameless attempts by the Congress and Aligarh Muslim University to accord it minority institution status and thereby reserve 50% of the seats for Muslims flies in the face of India's claim to be a secular state.
What is the need for such reservations?
If universal education at the primary level is the goal of the Government, shouldn't this enable everyone - irrespective of caste, creed or religion - a platform from where to find their deserved position in the society in a meritocracy? Where then, is the role for reservations at the Higher Education level? What's the overall strategy here?
If someone is not capable of getting into an insitute of Higher Education, what is the purpose of providing him the crutches of reservation? Won't this merely delay his eventual settling down to his steady state where his job/role fits his capabilities?
Vote bank politics is screwing the country and no one is thinking of the long term implication of such short sighted appeasements. Tomorrow, if Benaras Hindu University reserves 50% seats for Hindus, will it be acceptable?
People asking for reservations on each and every count of caste, religion and region is a dangerous trend that can tear the unifying fabric of the coutry (or whatever remains of it).
Can someone drill some sense into Arjun Singh, the HRD Ministry, the Congress and the Government? Manmohan Singh and P Chidambran - two of our learned politicians and our hope - are you listening?
An Agitated Me
