Reservation issue has raised lot
of controversy in the past. Now one of the prominent leaders of Aam Admi Party Mr. Yogendra Yadav has stoked
the coals once again by stating that AAP cannot ignore the reservation issue.
Mr. Yogendra Yadav is a social
scientist in his own right. In the year 2006 when Mandal II was hogging the lime light, Mr. Yadav along with Mr. Satish Deshpande
came out with a formula on how to give fair weightage to not only merit and
caste/community, but also other disabling
factors like gender, poverty, hailing
from a backward region, type of schooling one had etc.
The formula was refreshingly new.
But there were no takers for it in the political establishment because it could
not serve the needs of vote bank politics. But now the question is will AAP
show the guts to break from the past and adopt a fair and at the same time
humane approach to the problem by adopting this formula in the place of a
purely caste based reservation.
The following are the links to the
two part article published in THE HINDU in May 2006. Now is the time to take a
look at the formula and initiate a debate.
