REMEDY WORSE THAN CURE: My thoughts on RESERVATIONS
Chaitanya
Can anyone, son, daughter, husband, wife, grandson etc etc be punished for any crime, criminal act of their family member(s)?
Can they be denied opportunity to equality, to earn their livelihood and/or take their due place in the society on the basis of their merit, education, abilities and performance?
India has a much quoted Constitution which unequivocally states that all people are created equal.
To the best of my knowledge there exist no law, no provision, no rule according to which any family member, howsoever he/she may be close to any wrong doer/criminal/ murderer/ dacoit/ terrorist/bribe taker - accused of the most heinous and criminal act - his progeny is NOT LIABLE FOR HIS/HER ACTS EVEN IF the charges against the accused person STAND LEGALLY PROVEN AND WITHOUT ANY SHRED OF DOUBT - YET NO ONE OTHER THAN THE PERPETRATOR CAN BE PUNISHED TO EVEN SLIGHTEST DEGREE FOR THE CRIMES OF HIS FAMILY MEMBER!
Right?
Then WILL SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF MEMBERS OF UNRESERVED CLASSES HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING MERCILESSLY PUNISHED FOR LAST 70 YEARS AND ARE BEING DEPRIVED OF THE RIGHTS TO EQUALITY, RIGHTS TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, RIGHTS TO EARN THEIR LIVELIHOOD, RIGHT TO DIGNITY, RIGHT TO LIVE?
Just because it is perceived, that in past, several decades/centuries ago their forefathers, their older generations subjugated and deprived lower castes from various privileges and treated them with inequality, contempt, brutality, unfairly, differently and tormented them, denied them opportunities as equals and so on.........?
But how does this narrative indict present generations? Where is their culpability? How are they responsible for the acts or inactions, actual or perceived, for what may or may not have been done to the ancestors of the present lower caste generations? How can they be punished and deprived of the self same equality for which they are being punished?
Can the Muslims of India, on the same analogy, be punished and guillotined for the many dastardly crimes, mass murders/killings rape and all kinds of brutalities ( which are perhaps are even available properly documented) for what their forefathers, kings and the rulers of those times did? Can the all the Rajputs be guillotined for the criminal acts which may have been carried out by Rajput Kings?
What utter nonsense is this? Can we hold the all the Britishers and Gen Dyers progeny for the murders in Jallianwala bagh and in present times deprive them of their rights and punish them?
Aren't all the governments and systems since independence guilty of the same very act ( in reverse) for acting against the UNRESERVED CLASSES? Can they (non reserved population) not agitate and seek remedy and compensation for being wrongly and unjustly being discriminated - in most criminal manner - for something done in past by their fore fathers - something which no one directly or even indirectly can pin on any one, something for which, who knows, the perpetrators may have already been punished/ or had paid in kind?
Even the war criminals, the perpetrators of genocide, killers of entire race - Nazis - had to be indicted and tried individually for their individual complicity. NO class action was and could be taken against them.
For last 70 years, a complete population of some 40 crore Indians - for 5 generations - have faced class action of deprivation, denial, inequality, persecution, insults, indignity and destruction for no rhyme or reason, no justification or their involvement/complicity!
No political party, no leadership and no system can dislodge or change this reservation system because it is the KING MAKER , the biggest VOTE BANK, the biggest cash cow.
As long as the reservation system continues to exist, India is neither a constitutional democracy, nor a legitimate republic nor a state where equality is practised. It is a country which has been hijacked by the minorities and the reservists. Common ordinary Indian is a second, third and fourth class citizen and is most deprived of all the classes.