A Reservationary Revolution...

11/3/2010, Thursday...

In the past few days I came across some of these words/phrases like 'holding the democracy to ransom', 'empowerment', 'enlightenment', etc, etc, etc. once too often. All these celestial words were being thrown around by the media in context to the Women's Reservation Bill.

With a plethora of reservations already in place and with some knocking on the doors , reservation, quantitatively ofcourse but even qualitatively, is big in our country. We are a country where the Chief Justice of the apex court belongs to a 'scheduled caste'( something to be proud of ? maybe yes.. ) and where his children are still very much entitled for all the reservations (which our constitution 'reserves' for people who are backward) that'll help them climb up the acclivity. But then you can't do much about it. The cornucopia of parliamentary gluttons have been working all the way for the welfare of the backward classes. Haven't they ??

I don't really understand the gung-ho relating to the Women's Resevation Bill. I kinda find this bill on reservation, the least to go mad about. I mean there cannot be any harm in allocating some seats to women where they aren't being represented commensurately. Although, all this reservation's gonna do is bring in some more Rabri Devis into politics and with almost every gold-digger politician being a happily married man, there's nothing that this bill can do to turn the tide on its head. But atleast it 'sounds' somewhat reformative to the core.

But then Mr. Mulayam Singh Yadav( i kinda find his name quite funny) and the ever so, 'apparently', amoral Mr. Lalu Prasad Yadav, are vehemently opposing this bill and some of their MPs held 'the democracy to ransom' a couple of days back. I saw them holding 'the democracy to ransom' with their hands on TV. It was farcical to say the least. Last week I heard Mr. Lalu telling the media that he was opposing the bill because it would be a sacrifice with the quality of the parliamentarians. Quality my foot, as if they are any better today, and you can bet a million bucks that it won't be worse after the bill is passed. But a couple of days later the two Yadavs were demanding that the reservation should be given to backward women and muslim women and if the government made the relevant changes they'll support the bill. That was like politicians, I must say, taking a U turn all of a sudden, having a change of mind and turning it inside out overnight and all that for the welfare and empowerment of 'backward' women! This altruistic suffragism almost killed me!
These MPs who held 'the democracy to ransom' were 'physically' removed from the upper house of the parliament, and rightly so.

Wish we could 'physically' remove all of them and put some quality in over there.


I don't know what 've i written and why 've i done that. I don't know if anyone can ever interconnect my sporadic thoughts.I don't know if someone will ever try to. But do i care ?? ... i never did... and i still don't...