Originally Posted by
anilsinghd
I remember going through the Indian Constitution book and as my habbit , I still have a few important things marked in my head.
The fundamental rights section saaid this:
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Equality before law: Article 14 of the constitution guarantees that all citizens shall be equally protected by the laws of the country. It means that the State cannot discriminate against a citizen on the basis of caste, creed, colour, sex, religion or place of birth.
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We have seen threads of reservation going pages after pages making a mockery of the above and while reading the Haryana govt. formation posts on another thread in the same section , I was disturbed to the core because the newspaper link given there reported that the ministries be distributed on the basis of representation of certain areas and certain castes. While one can argue that it is in a sense implementation of above because you are representing equally but to me it is not.
Positions of responsibility ( and what more responsiblity can be there than the ministers themselves who have the maximum leverage , power , resources to do good for the people at large) should be chosen on the basis of skill set , attributes , qualities and qualifications not by caste and area. By simple calcualtions there can be 14 ministers and if 10 Jats are the most capable leaders then why not 10 jats as ministers?
If 10 MLAs from Rohtak are the most capable then why not those 10?
My questions are:
1) Does this strategy implies explicitly that the people in power are inherently biased towards their own communities/areas so they in essence practise against the law of equality?
2) A national party ( and this goes against all , not the congress alone ) which basis its principles on the great constitution and blah blah practices discrimination? And choses wrong people for the wrong job?
3) What about the loss that happens to the people by this policy? What if a very able economist who can run finance ministry with great ideas and for common good does not get in the "mantrimandal"
becasue of these discriminatory policies?
4) So much so for the cutting the cake , why dont they cut the same cake based on the age profiles? Why do not we youngsters get some young ministers as well?
It is indeed painful to see people not even noticing such things and then on 15th of August or on Repulic day holding their head high and saying they are nationalists. Please envision a common Indian and a common good rather than these divisionary policies and practises.
Thank you,
Anil