Anti-Reservation protests intensify

The anti-reservation protests by medical students, supported by various sections of the medical fraternity, has intensify with the All India Medical Association calling in a nation-wide stir to protest the Quota bill to be delivered to the Cabinet and the wrongful and lawless behaviour of the Delhi and Mumbai police, which have lathi charged peacefully protesting students. The lathi charges have been repeatedly shown live on various news channels and caused a lot of unrest in the educated classes.

Throughout the world in various key protests which have gained nation-wide momentum the student protesters have played a key and significant role in getting the masses involved. Be it the Tianneman Square protests in China or the Anti-War protests against the Vietnam War in the USA. student protesters have been at the forefront of it all. There is a similarity out here as well. We are seeing the masses rallying behind these students and demanding that there be a meaningful dialogue between the blood-sucking and vote-hungry septuagenarian Arjun Singh and the representatives of the student bodies.

With reservations for the OBC classes being proposed for nearly 50+ and more it seems that the Government of India is keen on getting India back to the stone ages. I totally agree with providing a level playing field for the underprivileged and deprives sections of Indian society by providing them with opportunities at the primary and secondary level of education and possibly at various government colleges and government jobs as well. At the same time I feel that the opportunities being given to these classes is being misused in many cases by people faking caste certificates and gaining entry into prestigious institutions on the basis caste rather than true merit. This is totally unacceptable. Like I pointed out in one of my previous postings I would totally support a low-interest or even a 0% interest loan for eduction of any such meritious students from these sections of our society but vanilla reservation without any regard for merit is totally uncalled for. We already have a 25%+ reservation system in many of the educational institutes and this is definitely sufficient. Moreover the government should be able to guarantee that this fake OBC/SC/ST certificate menace is put to an end.