The Gujjar Dilemma

Taking law has become a prestige issue for the elderly novice leaders.Perhaps the self-eulogised community's saviour-obsession in them sparks the flames of confrontation and agitations rather than a meaningful, constructive, progressive stance ---taking the social standing of the community into a recession.The recent summons to Bainsala are a glaring instances of his dareness to take law into their own hands and expect to be acquitted by igniting the caste flame. It is more than providing fodder to the more opportunistic non-entities like LJP and BSP who are ever ready to take the bait.

The arrogance and insensitivity of the issue can well be gauged by their euphoria about the no. of dead in the agitation.Where even the constitutional law provides that hundred culprits be freed so that not even a single innocent is convicted, the value with which these perpetrators of community service measure human life is no more than dogs and donkeys.

The issue of reservation has an interesting cap to it.The Gujjars are already in the OBC which has 27% reservation and STs a mere7.5%, which means they already have been reaping the benefits .That they have not been able to attain the standards to achieve even the minimum calibre to exploit the benefit of these reservations was exemplified by even the wealthy and well off landlords in Delhi who still believe swinging of their lathis and using abusive language a better prospect rather than swinging their heads and brains in academic and career oriented profiles. To accord them the reservation status would be the most laughable joke of the century.In any community leaving the genuinely backward clusters that need to be strengthened infra-structurally, it is basically not the money but the discipline to spend that money and the attitude towards the constructive approach to nation building --that is the call of the 21st century.

The other aspect is the infighting amongst themselves to walk away with the cake.The impunity with which Meenas have forged their status from a particular village where the genuine villagers don't even know what reservations are- to get into medical ,engineering, and civil services needs to be delved into and see if even the quota assigned to them is any longer viable. After all --wasn't reservation supposed to be a time bound -10 or 20 year adjustment.Well the sweeter the tea is than it should be the deserving takers vain out.

AND THAT 5-10% CAN HOLD THE WHOLE NATION TO A HIJACKING OF SORTS is a sad commentary to the success of our democracy.The object should be to reach to the deserving and downtrodden irrespective of the castes and regions.That's the way to be out of this dilemma.