Comments on: Youth For Equality – the legal challenge begins

By: Devbrat

Devbrat — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:43:47 +0000

YFE should come into Politics and with the passage of time should throw these greedy Politicians like Arjun Singh etc out .

Devbrat

By: Ravindra

Ravindra — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:21:18 +0000

When the Moily panel was appointed, it was quite clear that this was only an eyewash designed to put brakes on the raging anti-reservation movement. Further vindictive steps by the Health Minister on the striking AIIMS doctors and the Dean only confirmed the attitude of the Government – which was to bulldoze the quota regime onto the people. The SC warning to doctors at that time did sound like a death knell to the fledgling movement. I hope that the SC is able to now balance the forces and pull up the Govt on its assurances. As regards YFE, whether it will grow into a stronger force or not, only time will tell. Today’s Municipal elections in Mumbai has about 1-2 candidates put up by the YFE. Lets see if they are able to make any show! If they do, then there is some hope!

By: sudhir

sudhir — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:07:45 +0000

Kudos to the SC justices for saving the day (so far).

A bigger problem remains the lack of a ‘middle class vote bank’ in India despite our clearly perceiving a middle class consciousness. Sad fact is the netas can afford to ignore midle class concerns with impunity (and clearly do) because when push comes to shove, the illiterate poor rule the ballots. And it is just so much easier to bribe the latter with populist gimmicks and nonissues than please the smaller, smarter, former group of people.

A good case in the point is Sonia’s lopsided priorities when she grounded Mumbai’s shanghai dreams of slu relocation and development in a jiffy. The wealth, the votes, the benefits that could have happened is all in the future and hence invisible, anyway.
Just my 2 cents.

By: Reason

Reason — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:01:36 +0000

Wanted to mention Sri K.M.Vijayan, who has been fighting this battle from Tamil Nadu since the nineties. He was physically attacked and injured for daring to do this. His ‘Voice’ was a petitioner in the ninth schedule case. I have not seen any magazine doing a cover-story with him. Probably it is better that way since popularity may be dangerous for him.

The point about direct political activism – a functioning democracy with rule of law should not need daily street protests. The fundamental issues, including the constitutional norms, are beyond winning or losing an election. That is not the way it works in India.

By: Amendment 93 in Supreme Court today « Reality Check India

Amendment 93 in Supreme Court today « Reality Check India — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:08:31 +0000

[...] Thanks to the vigilant The Acorn blog. We find that the entire gamut of OBC quota laws will be in the supreme court today. Hat tip to The Pioneer newspaper for headlining this extremely important issue. The petition was filed by the NGO Youth For Equality (support them). [...]