Once upon a time, it was felt that an educated politician is good for society because he would govern better. But it is now understood that educated politicians are good at swindling better than their lesser privileged colleagues. After bifurcation, the Kapu community became the largest in Andhra Pradesh and in order to become the CM, Chandrababu promised reservation to that community and roped in Pawan Kalyan to campaign for him. That did the trick for him and he successfully became CM. The point is, reservations along casteist lines are an anathema to society. Why can’t reservations be given along economic lines? That way, the deserving people will get them irrespective of caste, community or religion. There are rich and poor people in every community and reservations to an entire community just do not make sense anymore.
But it is sad to see people like Naidu use it as a tool for political aggrandizement rather than a genuine instrument of social reform. India is perhaps the only country today where every community is eager to be referred to as backward. Maybe, the nation itself should be splintered into as many states as there are castes and divided accordingly. Nobody will complain then as everybody from the highest official to the lowest officer in that state would belong to the same caste.
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