V.P.Singh, messiah of the twice-born
Kancha Ilaiah was dismissed with condescending laughter when he said on "the Big Fight' on NDTV, last Saturday, that V.P.Singh had actually saved the upper castes when he brought in Mandal in '89. Would you find a dumber elite anywhere else in the world? If VP Singh hadn't brought in Mandal the resentment and disaffection among the OBCs would have developed into something much more concrete- and destructive than it is now. Mandal tokenism assuaged OBC feelings - for a while. That's the cold truth India's elite doesn't have the common sense to recognize.
posted by obc voice @ 3:10 AM
1 Comments:
whys man,
yes it's politics- that(mandal) seemed the best possible option for him to stick to his gaddi- but the overall uninted effect was to in a way save his own class of people rather than to help the obcs..obcs were on roll already, in all the parties, mandal would have happened even without vpsingh.
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