Vote against Reservation

There are events that badly batter the soul of a country. The terrorist attack on Mumbai was one such moment. However there are passages of time when the nation’s leaders infest into it such diseases that slowly and gradually are bound to bring the nation down to a lifeless carcass. One such disease infested the Indian Nation when Congress’ HRD Minister Arjun Singh made a statement that reservation in educational institutions would be increased to 49.5%. There were protests across all educational institutions, but they died down soon. Unsupported by political parties all of which lacked the spine of standing up against this measure for the fear of losing votes, the protests were literally crushed.

The country goes to polls again and maybe due to its Chalta Hai attitude is choosing to neglect the disease. New populist manifestos with further reservations and affirmative action have been proposed. The most notable amongst these is the Congress manifesto that promises reservations in the private sector, increasing reservations in educational institutions further and instituting reservations for Minorities.

No one, neither the press, nor the Indian middle class, nor any political party seems to pay any heed to this issue. Apart from a couple of articles in the press there have been no efforts to highlight the issue. Lets save the soul of the nation, pledge to go an vote against a government which promises nothing but Reservations. For once a government like this comes to power again, not even God can save the Nation from this disease.

Jai Hind

Realize that this not just another passage of time when we can shrug our shoulders and say Chalta Hai. Once more than 50%, possibly 80% of the spaces in the country are reserved, it will become almost impossible to bring about any change!