Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Gujjars towards peace!

It had been long weeks of gruesome-unheard war raging at Bansala, the stronghold of gujjars.
All that started when the gujjars felt anguish over the fact that they remained Backward castes though they were small in number. And you would be wrong if you thought that they needed to project themselves as a forward minded community. Its the other way round here in India, thanks to all the pomp and luxuries the most backward communities are enjoying.

The Unseen "Divide n Rule"

The schedule Tribes(ST's)
The schedule Castes(SC's)
Most Backward Caste(MBC)
Backward Caste(BC)
and the remaining fall into the unserved categories.

In India the politicians have learnt that the DIVIDE AND RULE left by the Britishers was indeed a great notion to rule a government and bring down a ruling government. Be it any law, from job vacancies in government jobs to reservations in top-notch educational institutions, the reserved castes enjoy the better creamier pie leaving the crumbs to the qualified.

Hence every community in India fights it way backward to enjoy more reservations....and people vie to get(buy) a certificate from them. Minorities are always pampered.

It is the same status the Gujjars want. They need to be categorized as ST's.
The Gujjar stance:

  • In Rajastan the Meeras a community with larger number of people are ST's
  • The Vasundara Raje government promised to demote them as ST's when elected tp power.
  • The commission's report which was set up to look into this matter last year ended in favour of the government.
Protest:
Bayana-the strong hold-hunger strike-rail rokos-grieving over the dead

The gujjars never allowed the postmortem of the people who died in clash with the armed forces against their uncalled strikes and rail-rokos, until late last week when the gujjars thought that the government had more important issues like containing inflation, protests over Fuel Hikes and hence decided to call for a peace talk between the government.

Today the first talks seems to be promising for the gujjars and the government and still three more to go for a minimum.







A boomerang always comes to hit its master!

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