Caste, Class and the question of Reservation.

Class doesn't exist in India it is replaced by Caste.Caste is a Brahmin question, it's not a Dalit-Bahujan questions. Annihilation of caste is only possible by Brahmins not by others because they are the owner's of the caste.Basically discrimination happens on the basis of caste in India.No matter how much rich or powerful a Dalit-Bahujan is he/she have to face caste discrimination in his/her life as an example the President of India Ramnath Kovind was insulted in a Temple in Puri, Odisha because of his caste identity.  Forget about other Dalit-Bahujan people. A 9th failed Baman can insult a well educated Dali-Bahujan because of his caste identity. Affirmative action is not a poverty alleviation programme, it's about representation. If any person is poor then question your government, demand proper scheme of poverty alleviation, the person is poor because of the ignorance of the state. Discrimination happens in the name of caste so reservation will be caste based. Dear, UC's caste based reservation is there because of casteism, end Casteism first then caste based reservation will be end automatically. Don't confuse with why reservation is caste based not economy. You people were demanding economic based reservation and you already got 10 percent EWS quota despite of having less than 10 percentage of population. And this move was supported by most of the Dalit-Bahujan political parties and leader's also.But there are thousands of UC politicians in every national and regional political parties who always oppose the reservation for OBC SC and ST's. When Mondal Commission was going to implement for OBC's then 99 percentage of UC students came out from their colleges and universities to street for demonstrate against this move even one student named Rajiv  burnt alive himself as a sign of protest.The capital of India, Delhi was occupied by UC students and most of the students were from Delhi University.People like Abhisar Sarma (Journalist in present time, 'Bol Ke Lab Azad Hain Tere' one) and Barkha Dutt(Journalist in now) were leading the protest in Delhi. Even they burnt the  official resident of the then cabinet minister Rambilash Paswan. So my dear OBC folks at least now it's high time to know who is your friends and enemies. Baamans are looting you.Those who have  population of  less than 10 percentage they are getting 10 percent reservation. After having 52 percentage of population you people are begging for 27 percent with the biggest scam NCL. Wake up dear OBC and grab your rights. UC's must thankful to Dalit-Bahujan that they want proper implementation of reservation not revenge.And the caste is not past it's about present.Dont give us the argument that all UC's are not rich and all SC, ST's are not poor, it's too outdated now. Always remember a poor Brahmin can become a Priest in a Temple, although all UC's are not  priest but can become a Priest but a rich Dalit-Bahujan couldn't. You people are so much casteist that if a Dalit-Bahujan is traveling in a flight, wearing good clothes, eating in a good restaurant, using an iPhone, speaking good English, entering into general merit list even looking good is also a problem for you. Dear UC's, no one is asking you to apologise for your ancestors. We are asking you to dismantle the systems of oppressions they built, that you maintain and benefit from.Always remember one thing that today's India is because of Dalit'-Bahujans blood and sweat. And you people are foreigners, people like Jawaharlal Nehru, Balgangadhar Tilak  and many old UC scholars also proudly used to accept this and later Wamen Meshram proves this. We OBC SC ST and Muslims are the Mulnibashi of this land.

The author is a Postgraduate Scholar in Centre for Women's Studies at University of Hyderabad. You can reach out to him: rupam.hcu98@gmail.com

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