Reservation Raj

So Rajasthan government shows that it's as useless as we thought it was and more. After a month long standoff the Gujjar have prevailed. Their demand - inclusion of Gujjar in the ST category giving them a 5% reservation in education/government jobs. Well seeing the power they seem to wield any one but them deserve a reservation quota (if such a quota ever made any sense). First of all let us think why are such quotos supposed to be in existence. They were created long time back during 1950s when the weaker sections needed encouragement to come up. Well it made some sense back then. They were supposed to be slowly phased out as the communities grabbed the opportunities such provided and gained a place in the society. Well rather than phasing them out our ever profiteering politicians realized they had a gold mine in here. Promise a ticket to this pampering quota and get the whole communities votes. Who cares whether what the consequences will be - it won't be there to haunt him within his 5 year term for sure. Well such being the principles of our 'leaders' the country boasts of almost 50% quota now. And if (rather when) the gujjar demands are met the quota may climb upto 68% !!! Well the only message that the government is sending to the poor general folks out there is that they dont need us. General category people have enjoyed too much of India so far and now they either hand over india to sc/st or better still leave India !
Reservation basically means to put in some folk based on their community. But wait a second - that strangely sounds more and more like discrimination - only difference is discrimination is targeted against a specific set of people and reservation is targeted against all sets of people other than the SC/ST. While the need to encourage the weaker sections cannot be argued against, the methods can be. Well, is putting 10 people in IIT for example help the community or providing free education to 100 children at the primary and secondary level ?? For once politicians (who btw are the best mathematicians around) have grabbed the wrong line in the numbers game. Give the poor kids an incentive to study and let the general people ( who have actually build the india as we know it) enjoy the fruits of their labor. Rather than playing robinhood teach communities to share.! God.. this is so sounding like a lesson in primary school - but guess most folks in parliament have never been there ..!!