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Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
Various subsidies for muslims and this kota has worked for Congress in Karnatka 2024, it has got only 9 seats, which is less than what it has got in Telangana. These congressi are hardwired appeasers. They are so shameless that even after losing 3 general elections back to back they are still not learning. No wonder they haven’t been able to repeat even a state election win since 15 years.
BJP is playing pure divisive politics! As you rightly mentioned, Muslim reservation was implemented by JD(S) who is now in alliance with BJP. But you and BJP conveniently blame Congress!
You mention about constitutional validity. Karnataka reservations were implemented in 1995 in line with SC verdict by the then JD(S). Yes, it was initiated by Congress in 1994, but the implementation had to wait for SC verdict.
Congress was in power for so many years, at many times crossing 350 mark in loksabha elections. They could have transferred all the money to Muslims by now if they really wanted to! Talking about Mangalsutra to scare people! Is there any dignity left in leadership positions? How much lower the standards can go to? And people like you justify Modi’s charges and encourage more such speeches?
Though , it is irrelevant to the following arguments I am making ,I confess myself to be Dalit …
This whole reservation questions as a form of Affirmative action or egalitarian question , reaching a dead end …
Two features of reservations are making it so…
1) Zero-sum Logic
2) inefficient trickle down of credential capital.
Logic of zero sum ensures , competitive combating….already including groups will always be hostile to newly inclusion.. be it Musim quotas “Polarising ” or what is going on in Manipur ….
Inefficiency of trickle down via reservation stems from 2 fact that 1) Reserved groups are not homogeneous, 2) without any qualitative universal primary & secondary education, ” reservations” in higher education & beyond (in govt or private sector) is bad policy to begin with…
Then , Post Mandal Moment , this “reservation” as issue of justice has been nearly vanished …. thanks to OBC quotas , it means now how much competitive political mobilisation which communities can do… recent Maratha Farce is proof of this
Result of all this weakening of Social justice politics & question of justice from our political vocabulary..
Now , as BJP is hegemon , scholars like Dilip Mandal & Arvind kumar make lot of Non-Sequitter arguments for God-Knows-what , probably political incentive determine logical fallacies…
Then, there is erosion of larger Ambedkarite movement, which is fixated on Reservations– yesterday’s solution — as only primary instruments… Whether proponents are aware or not , Most of dalits are now in precarious informal economy, for whom Reservations in “formal private sector reservation” will mean little … economic dualism is much more concern for them
Ambedkarites should do well to Make new social contract of New century…. Reservations is product of 20th century social contract …
New social contract should be Universalised quality primary & secondary edu & health from public spending….. & should be rooted in deep question of justice & egalitarianism & Cosmopolitanism ( transcending communitarian approach so far)
Various subsidies for muslims and this kota has worked for Congress in Karnatka 2024, it has got only 9 seats, which is less than what it has got in Telangana. These congressi are hardwired appeasers. They are so shameless that even after losing 3 general elections back to back they are still not learning. No wonder they haven’t been able to repeat even a state election win since 15 years.
BJP is playing pure divisive politics! As you rightly mentioned, Muslim reservation was implemented by JD(S) who is now in alliance with BJP. But you and BJP conveniently blame Congress!
You mention about constitutional validity. Karnataka reservations were implemented in 1995 in line with SC verdict by the then JD(S). Yes, it was initiated by Congress in 1994, but the implementation had to wait for SC verdict.
Congress was in power for so many years, at many times crossing 350 mark in loksabha elections. They could have transferred all the money to Muslims by now if they really wanted to! Talking about Mangalsutra to scare people! Is there any dignity left in leadership positions? How much lower the standards can go to? And people like you justify Modi’s charges and encourage more such speeches?
Though , it is irrelevant to the following arguments I am making ,I confess myself to be Dalit …
This whole reservation questions as a form of Affirmative action or egalitarian question , reaching a dead end …
Two features of reservations are making it so…
1) Zero-sum Logic
2) inefficient trickle down of credential capital.
Logic of zero sum ensures , competitive combating….already including groups will always be hostile to newly inclusion.. be it Musim quotas “Polarising ” or what is going on in Manipur ….
Inefficiency of trickle down via reservation stems from 2 fact that 1) Reserved groups are not homogeneous, 2) without any qualitative universal primary & secondary education, ” reservations” in higher education & beyond (in govt or private sector) is bad policy to begin with…
Then , Post Mandal Moment , this “reservation” as issue of justice has been nearly vanished …. thanks to OBC quotas , it means now how much competitive political mobilisation which communities can do… recent Maratha Farce is proof of this
Result of all this weakening of Social justice politics & question of justice from our political vocabulary..
Now , as BJP is hegemon , scholars like Dilip Mandal & Arvind kumar make lot of Non-Sequitter arguments for God-Knows-what , probably political incentive determine logical fallacies…
Then, there is erosion of larger Ambedkarite movement, which is fixated on Reservations– yesterday’s solution — as only primary instruments… Whether proponents are aware or not , Most of dalits are now in precarious informal economy, for whom Reservations in “formal private sector reservation” will mean little … economic dualism is much more concern for them
Ambedkarites should do well to Make new social contract of New century…. Reservations is product of 20th century social contract …
New social contract should be Universalised quality primary & secondary edu & health from public spending….. & should be rooted in deep question of justice & egalitarianism & Cosmopolitanism ( transcending communitarian approach so far)