Support for Extended Reservation of Other Backward Castes
While address a function to honour Karpori Thakur, organised by Backward Caste Cell of Janta Dal (U), top leaders of the organization voiced their support for more reservation in jobs for other backward caste and most backward caste. Although, there was nothing new in the support, however, the langauage of reservation supporters has changed. For the first time Nitish Kumar, who belongs to a prominent backward caste, said that reservation is right of the backward caste people. Now with the dominance of backward caste peoples in Bihar politics the leaders are showing their true colours, right from the starting the official gazettes and announcemnets have always maintained that reservation in jobs and academic institutions is meant to help only those who are not capable of performing against the superior talent of general candidates just because of their deprived socio-economic background. Its amazing that these leaders are now calling this system right of backward caste people who have already got tremendous advantage over general candidates as they have scaled significant success and most of them are as rich as any general category person. Its time to review the Reservation in jobs rather than consolidate it.