Reservations: Idle Sops or Genuine Needs?

By Press Trust of India

(Reporter- Rabhya Nanda, Photographer- Reva Sharma)

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The All Indian Political Party Meet consisted of 14 members. The conference started with an unmoderated caucus where all the delegates were familiarized with their party members. Members from the BJP started discussing their party, congress members discussed their party and other members were discussing in their own groups.

After the unmoderated caucus, the conference moved on to a moderated caucus. The first motion raised by Congress politician Mr. Rahul Gandhi was the round of opening statements. 

The many members discussed the same points during this session. Mr Akhilesh Yadav started off with the reservations for the lower cast and how they don’t get good opportunities solely because of their economic status. Almost all the delegates raised the lower cast reservation topic and then depending on their political parties they went against it or supported it. 

The main ideas discussed were related to free education, electricity, food and water, backward stereotypes, dalits, women conservation, higher education and jobs and how reservations for different communities affect other communities's education, resources, food and shelter etc. 

After opening statements, another moderated caucus was put into place. The motion for this was “reservation into economic criteria”. The main focus was on “whether people with economic issues should prove themselves or sustain reservations”. Poor people, backward cast, cast based reservations, cast reservation in to economic reservation etc were the recurring topics in the discussion. This caucus lead the discussion into a greater detail. Cast bais, and how personal rights are restricted were other topics which were brought to attention by Mr. Akhlesh Yadav and Mr. Narendra Modi.