Dirty politics ruins the policies

The recent agitation by medical students against 27% reservation for OBC evoked strong protest. We have seen the strife deepening, spiraling out of control, as the nation wide protest gathered momentum each day. Agitated students, rallies, dharnas, students facing water canyons, lathi charge by cops will not fade away from our mind. All of these and the coverage of this issue by the media make us feel that the “reservation” is really “bad” for the country.

But reservation as a policy is not that bad. It only attempts to provide opportunity to the people who were born unfortunately in socially and economically backward society. If reservations were so bad then it would not have been introduced in Malaysia, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Netherlands, and Ireland. And there is 50% reservation for blacks and women in medical faculty of Harvard University.
In our country, Tamil Nadu has been practicing reservation policy nearly for 80 years. The state has seen improvements in the conditions of the deprived sections.

So, it is clear that the policy is not bad. But the politics mixed with the policy ruins the very purpose for which the policy is formulated. That is why the policies made by the government looks no less than a political gimmick.
Former PM V.P.Singh implemented Mandal Commission to save his prime minister ship from his deputy, Devi Lal. And now, Mandal- II is another attempt to gather votes.

These petty politics only erases the trust that we have in our government. Frustrated with politicians, youngsters come to hasty conclusions of not voting for the Congress in the next elections. Little do they realise that that Congress and BJP are very much same. When in power, they all behave in the same way. Today what we should fight for is transparent implementation of any policy. Any policy which is based on research with reliable data, scientific methodology and religiously implemented can prove to be a boon to the development of the country.