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India :
Former Indian prime minister and Janta Dal leader Vishwanath Pratap Singh died today. He was 77 and suffered from a prolonged illness.
Born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh in June 25, 1931, he led the National Front alliance to victory in the 1989 general elections defeating the Congress Party.
He served as the 10th Prime Minister of India from 2 December 1989 – 10 November 1990 before his government becoming the first to be defeated on the floor of the House following BJP’s withdrawal of support.
He would be best remembered for implementing the Mandal Commission recommendations which suggested that a fixed quota of all jobs in the public sector be reserved for members of the historically disadvantaged so-called Other Backward Classes (OBC), which resulted in nationwide protests by students including a number of suicides by protesters, most famous of which was the attempt to commit suicide by self immolation by Rajiv Goswami.
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Sukhbahar
Nov 27 2008
Ludhiana,
India
Good that root cause of the quota system is dead. We need to get rid of such politicians here. I hope rest also follow him soon. These oldies are responsible for the slow growth of India. Otherwise the amount of talent that we have in our country, we would have been developed long time back.
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(Local Perspectives)
i don’t know how to react on it. He is responsible for the Mandal Commission, he is responsible to fragmenting the national parties into regional parties, so for me, its not a shock. In my opinion he was a dishonest politician, he was not a reliable, he has his own theory, which i feel person like me can’t support. After 60 years of independence Quota should be lifted, but he deepen it’s roots.He served as the 10th Prime Minister, no doubt generation will remember him for it but more than that he will remembered for his injustice for the equality. he is the person who tarnished the law of equality.
(Local Perspectives)
Late prime Minister V.P. Singh was a stalwart in Indian politics, however, nothing can wipe off the the violent memories of mandal commission that pushed his political career into doldrums.
(Local Perspectives)
Amongst the tenure of 11 months as a PM he killed thousands of students in India.
He should have been dead long time back.
He should have been dead long time back.
(Local Perspectives)
Let no evil speak about a dead man. A mercenary on whom millions and millions of the state exchequor were spent on account of his health, occupied a sprawling bungalow in Delhi as he was the prime minister once and another big bungalow in Lucknow as he was too chief minister of Uttar Pradesh once, he would be rated as the biggest political hypocrite whose mission simply was: Do what I say not as I do”.
(Local Perspectives)
Hi from a Westerner, not really an expert in Indian politics, but I would just like to make a couple of observations, and ask a couple of questions.
Why would people be against a quota system? I mean, the caste system seems to favour people for who they are and not their abilities, which cannot be right. In the rest of the world that would be called racism. Would I be wrong?
I have often read over the years that protests against the OBC were members of the higher castes, and that they are a sort of Indian equivalent of the Bourgeoisie in Europe. Is that an erroneous opinion?
Finally, I would just like to say how surprised I am to read the vituperation in some of these comments. ”He should have been dead a long time ago” doesn’t seem to be anything else but sheer hate. No?
Thank you.
Why would people be against a quota system? I mean, the caste system seems to favour people for who they are and not their abilities, which cannot be right. In the rest of the world that would be called racism. Would I be wrong?
I have often read over the years that protests against the OBC were members of the higher castes, and that they are a sort of Indian equivalent of the Bourgeoisie in Europe. Is that an erroneous opinion?
Finally, I would just like to say how surprised I am to read the vituperation in some of these comments. ”He should have been dead a long time ago” doesn’t seem to be anything else but sheer hate. No?
Thank you.
(Global Perspectives)
@michael
Speaking ill of someone who is already no more is quite unbecoming of us, agreed.
Coming to the issue of quotas, the resentment you see in this forum is simply because of the fact that the quota system just isn’t fair and wasn’t fair since it was first imposed.
To put it in a nutshell, the quota system’s goals of eliminating the deep inequality that plagued post independence India was indeed commendable.
But, the way in which it’s policies were formulated led to a deep malaise that split communities of India rather than join them.
Yes, there certainly is a great need for inclusivity in development, especially of those who are underprivileged. But, the quota system, in my humble opinion, is not the right means or I would call, the tool to attain this ”inclusivity” which successive Indian governments have constantly aimed for. Things are certainly changing with reservation based on peoples’ economic ability coming to force, but then, it also has it’s fair share of drawbacks. But, change is happening, slowly albeit surely. It is now upto us, the youth of the country, to make sure that the underprivileged and the oppressed get their due of economic prosperity and development.
If that happens, we would be much better placed than crying foul over men who are already dead. So there you go Micheal, We need a better system to combat inequality. Till then, this debate will just go on with people pointing fingers at each other.
Speaking ill of someone who is already no more is quite unbecoming of us, agreed.
Coming to the issue of quotas, the resentment you see in this forum is simply because of the fact that the quota system just isn’t fair and wasn’t fair since it was first imposed.
To put it in a nutshell, the quota system’s goals of eliminating the deep inequality that plagued post independence India was indeed commendable.
But, the way in which it’s policies were formulated led to a deep malaise that split communities of India rather than join them.
Yes, there certainly is a great need for inclusivity in development, especially of those who are underprivileged. But, the quota system, in my humble opinion, is not the right means or I would call, the tool to attain this ”inclusivity” which successive Indian governments have constantly aimed for. Things are certainly changing with reservation based on peoples’ economic ability coming to force, but then, it also has it’s fair share of drawbacks. But, change is happening, slowly albeit surely. It is now upto us, the youth of the country, to make sure that the underprivileged and the oppressed get their due of economic prosperity and development.
If that happens, we would be much better placed than crying foul over men who are already dead. So there you go Micheal, We need a better system to combat inequality. Till then, this debate will just go on with people pointing fingers at each other.
(Local Perspectives)
Thank you very much Jayaprashanth, for taking the time to answer.
It would seem that this issue does in a way resemble the race issue here in that inequality based on who a person is remains hard to eradicate wherever it’s happening, which, unfortunately, seems to be all over the planet.
It would seem that this issue does in a way resemble the race issue here in that inequality based on who a person is remains hard to eradicate wherever it’s happening, which, unfortunately, seems to be all over the planet.
(Global Perspectives)
Also, before I forget, A lot of deserving, bright and capable people, have been deprived of their fair due, due to the inadequacies of the quote system. Hence, this outpouring of negative emotions. It is as simple or as complex as that.
(Local Perspectives)
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