Nov 26, 2008

Reservation : is there a third position possible

It is now and then that the politics of support and opposition uprises. Huge population of students and youth has been divided on this issue and it has created a rift and bitterness among best friends. In this scenario we would like to share some important things with the supporters and opponents of reservation. At first to the opponents of reservation you say that caste based reservation, in higher education especially in engineering, medical and scientific research will result in declining standards of services and will be like compromising with merit. If you are so concerned with merit and decline in standards of services why did not you raise your voice when NRI and management quota were fixed in private medical and engineering colleges. Did not you feel that there will be a decline in standard of services if seats are sold on basis of mo0ney in these institutes? Are all progenies of rich are born intelligent? Have you ever joined hands to resist this? Every year thousands of engineers, doctors, scientists, after having obtained degrees on the expense hard earned resources of common masses, take road to America and Europe to mint more money! Have you ever opposed this tendency and government policies that encourage it?
The truth behind wave of opposition to reservation principally is that there is no concern about competence, justice and national interest but centuries old deep rooted “anti-dalits” and anti-backward castes casteist prejudices hatred and reactionary customs and rituals. People fail to see that even if reservation is removed; all savarna students will not get education and employment.
To the supporters of reservation
Despite numerous social-political changes and capitalist development, even after six decades of political independence the venom of caste is deeply rooted in social fabric of our country. Even today 90% of dalit population is toiling as poor peasants and agricultural labourers in fields and labour in industries. Reservation in higher education makes no sense to them as their children are mostly school drop-outs. As a result, the fruits of reservation are mainly reaped by that population of dalits which has already raised living standards and is referred to as ‘creamy layer’. Today around 70_80% of OBCs are living under miserable conditions. It can be claimed with certainty that here also advantages of reservation will produce a creamy layer among them. Reservation to poor OBCs on basis of income certificates is also a complete nonsense. We all know that how income certificates are made by corrupt bureaucracy of our country. If reservation could do any good to dalit and OBC it should have made any significant difference in extensive population of dalits in last two decades. Statistics tell us that no such thing has happened, and reservation makes no sense for extensive dalit population. In these circumstances, we appeal to the supporters of reservation that they should pay attention to the fact that our real fight is not share in shrunk opportunities, but for free and equal education to all. Then only we can liberate extensive population of dalit and OBCs.
Although our position is quite clear but we would like to repeat in the end. We believe that reservation is a part of ‘divide and rule’ policy of ruling class. Today when nearly 80% of our country’s population is afflicted by poverty and misery, talking about reservation is like standing on the top of a building with a small bowl of rice and needy people waiting at the bottom, a certain percent of rice for the weakest, a little lesser for less weak and so on. The truth is that, this is not going to satisfy anybody’s hunger. Moreover, it creates contradictions amongst hungry.
Today the real motive of the student-youth movement is to fight for “equal and free education to all and employment to all” rather than splitting amongst themselves on reservation. If system is not based on profits of capitalists but functions for needs of common mass, then education and employment can be provided to everyone, a system which is completely governed by common masses then and only then chains of these century old worthless traditions will break and humanity can march forward.
We hope you will ponder over these questions and you will contact us even if you disagree. Come, let’s sit together, do not split but unite and launch a struggle for an equal society and system by engaging our collective strength and wisdom.

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