The past two months India has seen some of the most interesting, disturbing and mind boggling activities, politically and otherwise. First the Gujjar agitation. This whole concept of getting a backward status for a few sops from the government had put the entire Rajasthan out of gear for more than a fortnight, trains disrupted and the entire state coming to a stand still. A lot of people were killed by police firing. Then after a lengthy parleys and meetings by the leaders of the state ruling party and the Gujjar leader Bainsla, it came to a "favourable end" for the Gujjar community. You could see that how an entire state could be brought down by a small community to the knees. Now the trend is any minority community can put in unreasonable demands and can get away with any atrocities committed during its agitation and get want they want. This can spread to other parts of the country. The leader of this agitation was seen flying all around in helicopters and the state treating him as a celebrity. But, what exactly the government should have done is arrest this character for disturbing peace, disruption of day-to-day activities, creating mob frenzy, loss of public property and bringing loss to the exchequer. He was given a high pedestal by the state government and his unreasonable demands were met. This way the government has set a precedent for people of every minority community to come up with this frivolous and unreasonable demands and hold the government for ransom.
Like other issues, this to ultimately boils down to appeasement of the so called minority communities in the society. I have no qualms against any protests, but as far as it remains peaceful and reasonable. We need politicians with strong backbone and tackle issues with a rational mind and not playing to the tunes of these so called minorities. I am not against reservation, but the reservations cannot go on and on for ever. It is more than 60 years after Independence and still the mindset is way back in the 1940s. Has there been any survey as to determine the status of the backward communities? NO. Has there been any study so as to find out who is benefited by this reservations? NO. Still the government depends on the survey done ages back when the British were ruling India. Times have changed and the only people who were benefited by this reservation is the people living in the urban areas, who had the resources to utilize these reservation and kept this to themselves, their progeny and vigorously protects their territory. They say the reservation should exclude the creamy layer of these backward community and after bringing in this resolution the government raises the bar for the average income of the creamy layer exclusion. Again, all this is done for vote bank politics. But, whereas these backward communities in the rural area are still in the primitive shacks, with no facilities for education, health and these people have no inkling of the entire reservation schemes and if they knew about this, they don't know whom to approach. The reservations is just restricted to the urban areas and whereas this should have benefited the needy in the rural areas.
The next issue is the ongoing mockery of the constitutional rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution, the tirade against the non Marathis in Mumbai. Raj Thackeray can go on issuing dikats and giving virulent speeches of Maharastra only for the Marathis and the north Indians and the others should not be allowed to co-exist there. This man should be arrested and criminal proceeding should be taken up. But, instead the government is still dilly dallying with these bigoted idiots, who think that the great city of Bombay was created by the Marathis and the long dead Chatrapatti Shivaji, who was just a guerrilla fighter who never had the guts to fight a full fledged war against the Moguls, but actually what Bombay or Mumbai is now, is because of the migrants and their hard work. When the tilling, sowing and taking care is done, these sons of the soils come for the harvesting. The same goes for the great Bal Thackeray, whose ancestors according to some reports say that they came to Mumbai as migrants in search of a better life. When the constitution has given every Indian the right to travel and make a living in any part of India, it has to be enforced to the core. This issue is not only subjected to Mumbai, but to whole of India, where this kind of discrimination is rampant, if not as outright. Migrants face a lot of taunts, abuses and ill-treatment by the local community, which is pretty bad in some cases. Or it would be the best to segregate India into linguistic and religious regions and all given the independence to be independent countries, with independent polices and rights.
The third one is the agitations going on in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, I find it funny when the government is allotting a few acres of land for the pilgrims to the Amarnath yatra, for their basic needs such as temporary shelters and toilets, at the same time the government is providing massive subsidies for certain community to go and perform religious duties in foreign countries. These agitating people must be ashamed of themselves as they think that by allotting of 100 acres of land would lead to the population explosion of the Hindus and thereby their majority would be reduced. Here again the local politicians play a big part in stroking communal emotions to disrupt the daily activities of the entire state.
Anyone can protest against anything in the country, but by peaceful means and not by these divisive tactics and resorting to violence at the drop of a hat. These leaders who instigate such riots and communal feelings should be arrested and taken to task. The should be made accountable to all the loss faced by the government and there should be a law to curb any violent demonstrations and strict action to be taken on all the perpetrators of this mindless and wanton disruptions and destruction. And not appeasing these so called minority leaders for a few more votes in the future elections The power hungry politicians in the centre and the state are to be blamed for all these issues, we need someone with a strong backbone to bring out some sense of responsibility and accountability to this country and its country men.
I am ashamed to live in a country where people want to call themselves backward and underprivileged, where the constitution says that all Indians are equal. This caste reservations, caste system, divisive policies, minority appeasement, religious bigotry and the list goes on are the true bane of the country and not the population explosion or illiteracy which are presumed to be the stumbling blocks of growth and prosperity. I think the present day politicians have taken the old British way of dividing and ruling policy and now these politicians have perfected this art.
Like other issues, this to ultimately boils down to appeasement of the so called minority communities in the society. I have no qualms against any protests, but as far as it remains peaceful and reasonable. We need politicians with strong backbone and tackle issues with a rational mind and not playing to the tunes of these so called minorities. I am not against reservation, but the reservations cannot go on and on for ever. It is more than 60 years after Independence and still the mindset is way back in the 1940s. Has there been any survey as to determine the status of the backward communities? NO. Has there been any study so as to find out who is benefited by this reservations? NO. Still the government depends on the survey done ages back when the British were ruling India. Times have changed and the only people who were benefited by this reservation is the people living in the urban areas, who had the resources to utilize these reservation and kept this to themselves, their progeny and vigorously protects their territory. They say the reservation should exclude the creamy layer of these backward community and after bringing in this resolution the government raises the bar for the average income of the creamy layer exclusion. Again, all this is done for vote bank politics. But, whereas these backward communities in the rural area are still in the primitive shacks, with no facilities for education, health and these people have no inkling of the entire reservation schemes and if they knew about this, they don't know whom to approach. The reservations is just restricted to the urban areas and whereas this should have benefited the needy in the rural areas.
The next issue is the ongoing mockery of the constitutional rights guaranteed by the Indian Constitution, the tirade against the non Marathis in Mumbai. Raj Thackeray can go on issuing dikats and giving virulent speeches of Maharastra only for the Marathis and the north Indians and the others should not be allowed to co-exist there. This man should be arrested and criminal proceeding should be taken up. But, instead the government is still dilly dallying with these bigoted idiots, who think that the great city of Bombay was created by the Marathis and the long dead Chatrapatti Shivaji, who was just a guerrilla fighter who never had the guts to fight a full fledged war against the Moguls, but actually what Bombay or Mumbai is now, is because of the migrants and their hard work. When the tilling, sowing and taking care is done, these sons of the soils come for the harvesting. The same goes for the great Bal Thackeray, whose ancestors according to some reports say that they came to Mumbai as migrants in search of a better life. When the constitution has given every Indian the right to travel and make a living in any part of India, it has to be enforced to the core. This issue is not only subjected to Mumbai, but to whole of India, where this kind of discrimination is rampant, if not as outright. Migrants face a lot of taunts, abuses and ill-treatment by the local community, which is pretty bad in some cases. Or it would be the best to segregate India into linguistic and religious regions and all given the independence to be independent countries, with independent polices and rights.
The third one is the agitations going on in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, I find it funny when the government is allotting a few acres of land for the pilgrims to the Amarnath yatra, for their basic needs such as temporary shelters and toilets, at the same time the government is providing massive subsidies for certain community to go and perform religious duties in foreign countries. These agitating people must be ashamed of themselves as they think that by allotting of 100 acres of land would lead to the population explosion of the Hindus and thereby their majority would be reduced. Here again the local politicians play a big part in stroking communal emotions to disrupt the daily activities of the entire state.
Anyone can protest against anything in the country, but by peaceful means and not by these divisive tactics and resorting to violence at the drop of a hat. These leaders who instigate such riots and communal feelings should be arrested and taken to task. The should be made accountable to all the loss faced by the government and there should be a law to curb any violent demonstrations and strict action to be taken on all the perpetrators of this mindless and wanton disruptions and destruction. And not appeasing these so called minority leaders for a few more votes in the future elections The power hungry politicians in the centre and the state are to be blamed for all these issues, we need someone with a strong backbone to bring out some sense of responsibility and accountability to this country and its country men.
I am ashamed to live in a country where people want to call themselves backward and underprivileged, where the constitution says that all Indians are equal. This caste reservations, caste system, divisive policies, minority appeasement, religious bigotry and the list goes on are the true bane of the country and not the population explosion or illiteracy which are presumed to be the stumbling blocks of growth and prosperity. I think the present day politicians have taken the old British way of dividing and ruling policy and now these politicians have perfected this art.
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