Foulmouth

A psychoanalyst looks at caste:
"It is the persistent, obsessive fear that the top, clean mouth might be contaminated or defiled from the bottom," he said, "that underlies and permeates the entire caste system. This explains why a higher caste cannot accept food from the hands of a lower caste -- for fear of contamination. Feet...are dirty because they are in contact with the outside ground where feces might lurk."
Replace mouth with merit in the above paragraph and you'll understand why the elite opposes reservations.