With the anti-quota protests gaining momentum, its really shocking that not a single politician or political party, either from the ruling coalition or the opposition, has voiced a public opinion on the matter. They are shrewd enough to gauge the repercussions of speaking against the decision of Hon. Arjun Singh, because by doing so they would be inviting the wrath of the vast population of the OBCs in India. One cannot gain equality through inequality. Asking for a reservation is questioning one's own intellectual capacity. Reserving a seat in a bus for a handicapped person would hold some logic, because a person's disability is a visible trait and he/she is physically challenged to fight for a seat. Applying similar logic to the academic scenario is outrightly capricious because caste is an abstract concept and a person claiming reservation is intellectually capable to go through the selection procedures. I too belong to the OBC category and If I were to claim a seat in an institute the basis of my caste, then I should be considering myself as mentally backward and not socially backward simply because I am asking for a concession in marks!
