Bangalore: The talk of reservations is in the \Eir. For the first the Brahmins and other time Supper castes | (Aryans/ Hindus) have admitted the existence of caste when they demanded caste-based reservation to their Aryan jatis. This is a welcome development.
There may be some difference between the Bahujan demand for reservation and that of the Arvans. But the difference 1is minor.
CREAMY LAYER MISCHIEF
All these years the Arvans used Eo deny the very existence of caste and assert that SC/ST/BCs were all Hindus and brothers amend that India was a “*potion”. When Mandal reservations were announced 1in the early S0s, the Aryans launched violent agitation against BCs and SCs and opposed caste-based reservations.
Their mantra then was merit-based reservation which prompted us to come eutwisth four- booklet Merit, My Foot (DSA-1987).
The Supreme Court, which like all other institutions in India is also loaded with choicest Aryans, extended 1its helping hand to their jatwalas’, propounding mischievous “creamy layer theory”.
After a two and a half decade —-long fight, the Aryans Finally admitted their defeat — of course without saving So. How do we say they are defeated?
All these years they were not prepared for caste-based reservation. Their formula was poverty-based reservations which is not provided in the Constitution.
Now for the first time they have come round to caste- based reservation though there is mix of mischief in this also. They want a gout for the upper castes but the “poor” among them. This is mischief.
DEEP LOVE OF JATI
The Aryans in the Brahmana Jati Party and in the Congress, the original brahminical party of India, are all agog over this new formula. The Vaidik Vajpayvee is so overjoyed. Look how deep their love for their Jati is.
Be that as it may, we welcome the Aryan belated realisation that caste is a fact of life and that reservations must indeed be caste-based.
The upper caste mischief in this caste-based quota for the upper caste “poor””, however, goes against the Constitution which does not recognise “poverty” as the cause for deprivation. Only the SC/ST/BCs are deprived. Even if they become “rich”.
The upper castes, even if they are “poor”, are not deprived.
Poverty is no problem in India. The SC/ST/BCs are oppressed by the Aryans not because they are! pore” but because of their jati.
That means to incorporate the Aryan mischief it needs an amendment to the Constitution which is a difficult job.
WOMEN’S QUOTA
Did the Women’s quota Bill fall repeatedly in the Lok Sabha because the MPs scented the Aryan mischief? The same mischief is now found in the quota for the upper caste “poor”.
Anyway, we are happy that the Aryans, so far hiding the stinking castle under their carpet, have finally admitted that there is a stink. They are not ready to dismantle their caste system to get rid of this stink.
The only permanent solution to get rid of this stink is to give reservation to each jati in proportion to its population by recognising the existence of caste which DV has already proved as a Nation Within the Nation. (V.T. Rajshekar: Caste – A Nation Within the Nation, Books for Change – 2002).
