Congress’ caste census, removing 50% reservation cap is regressive.
The Congress has made it official. Caste, not merit, will determine how one will get educated, and how one can get a job or own resources. It will hold a caste census. This will be followed by an economic and financial survey. Congress has also promised to survey various institutions, private and government, to find out the representation of different castes.
Above all, it has also announced that it will remove the Supreme Court’s 50 per cent cap on reservations by enacting a new law. It has also been said that every caste and community, particularly the minorities, will get representation in all the institutions including the private sector, based on the proportion of its population, not any merit.
Gandhi never mentions merit in his speeches. He only mentions caste.
The Congress has not been even subtle about its intentions. Imagine a situation where merit will not just go to the background, it will simply be buried under the concept of the “proportion of the population”. Putting it simply means if one particular caste’s population is 50 per cent, the same percentage of jobs would be reserved for it.
No matter what the merit standing of the candidates will be, as long as there are vacancies reserved for that particular caste, they will manage to get selected. And in case, if candidates of some other castes score higher than the reserved castes, but do not have a sufficient number of vacancies, they will not get selected for the position or the job.
This has been happening even now, but with a 50 per cent cap on reservations, merit does get accommodated to a certain extent. If and after the cap is removed, merit will simply die.
Rahul Gandhi’s reservation theory, which sounds worse and more dangerous than even Mandal Commission recommendations, according to him (Gandhi), will not be restricted to jobs alone.
This will be applied to and implemented in the education sector, private sector and of course in legislative bodies as well. The instant outcome of this policy will be reservation in the private sector also.
Once the government makes laws for reservation in the private sector also, coupled with no cap, one can well imagine what will happen to those who depend solely on merit. It will not just hit the job prospects of the meritorious job seekers, but the private sector companies may also suffer a lot since they will be forced to compromise on merit.
The Congress has check-mated the BJP on the reservation issue. No political party no matter how strong it may be and no political leader no matter how powerful he may be can afford to be perceived to be against reservations.
When Congress says, it will enforce reservation everywhere that means it will enforce reservation in the private sector also, not only in jobs but also in education. This means the end of merit. No matter how meritorious and capable one is, s/he will have as much scope as the proportion of his/her population in getting a job or admission in any educational institution whether government or private.
Rahul Gandhi does not stop here. He goes on to say that he will distribute as much wealth among the poor, he has his definition of poor whom he counts as Backwards, Dalits, Adivasis and Minorities, as Prime Minister Modi according to him, gave away to Adani and Ambani.
This is a separate story that Adani and Ambani worked their way very hard to create the wealth they own, rather than manage. Needless to mention how many jobs they have created in the process.
This is not an exaggeration. This is what Rahul Gandhi has been telling people in his campaign speeches. Pick up any of his speeches from YouTube and listen to him carefully. Even the rabid and radical socialists and leftists have never suggested doing any such thing, as what Rahul intends to do.
As mentioned already, given the sensitivity of people towards their castes and the way it gets reflected in voting patterns, no politician can ever dare to contradict what anyone is seeking and demanding in the name of caste. And if it happens, it will come at a heavy cost for the nation.
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