How Gandhi Harmed O.B.C.s ?

We are certain that the recommendations of the Mandal Commission in favour of reservations for the backward classes in the Union Government’s services will go the way of the Kaka Kalelkar report. It is said that Gandhi fought for an undivided India and had tried to avert partition. But when Gandhi and Jinnah had held parleys in order to avert partition, Jinnah had put up a reasonable demand for reservation of posts in govt. services for the Muslims consistent with their populations. He wanted minimum qualifications to be fixed for the posts. And if posts could not be filled up even then, such posts could be transferred to the general pool. Gandhi who was under the spell of the upper castes, rejected this demand and harped on the discredited merit theory. Chief Minister M.G R of TN also harps upon the merit theory being under the spell of the upper castes. But strangely he claims to be the child of the Dravidian movement which was a pioneer in caste based reservations It is really a pity that some of the leading luminaries of the self respect movement are still backing his party which should be right fully renamed as Akila Bharathiya Acharyavals‘ Arya Munnetra Sabha’, ‘The real reason for Gandhi’s turning down Jinnah’s plea was that if this reservation concept was accepted then it would have had to be extended to OBCs. The upper castes had realised the danger involvedin conceding such a demand. This ultimately resulted in partition. It is, therefore, not correct to say that Gandhi wanted to avert partition at any cost. If only the demand for the reservation for Muslims in services had been conceded, partition could have been averted.