Religion, Caste And Tribe Based Reservation - 4

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http://www.indianexpress.com/ sunday/story/ 29618.html
<b>THINKING ALOUD </b>
Everyone loves the creamy layer
Sudheendra Kulkarni
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Rajeev Gandhi was against caste based reservation. His speech in parliament  .

<b>In a courageous act of plain-speaking, he delivered, on September 6, 1990, what was his finest speech — and also the longest, lasting two-and-a-half hours — in Parliament against caste-based reservations.
He gives the example of a judge belonging to an OBC caste who, after 15 years in the job, joins politics and becomes a minister. "Should he be given the benefit of reservations? " Rajiv asks. "Should his children be given such assistance? Do we want the benefits of reservations to be cornered by ministers, their sons and families? Do we want these benefits to go to landlords who have big properties?"</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This brings me to my second question. Should the grandchildren of M. Karunanidhi, Veerappa Moily, Chaggan Bhujbal, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Kalyan Singh, Ashok Gehlot — all OBC politicians — get into IITs, IIMs and AIIMS through the 27 per cent OBC quota? Wouldn't it be negation of social justice and perversion of the constitutional principle of equality of opportunity? Take the example of Akhilesh Yadav, an MP and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav's son. He was rich enough to have afforded an engineering education in Australia. Can his son now justifiably claim a reserved seat in an IIT? The family wealth that some of India's OBC politicians have amassed, the political power they wield, and the social standing they enjoy are such that calling them "backward" is akin to describing Arab sheikhs as "poor, camel-rearing desert inhabitants" <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->