Kosi broke banks in

Bihar and Nepal in september

2008. 3.3million Indians were

displaced, left homeless, and in despair the government

was busy exchange blames

with the state of Bihar and

Nepal. Who did it? What

caused it? No one knows and

no one will, all everyone will

remember is the rampage of

kosi and our helplessness to

deal with it.

It happens every year and we do nothing about it,

nothing at all. 30 years ago

plans floated of diverting the

waters of kosi, Brahmaputra,

Mahanadi to the states of An-

dhra Pradesh, Madhya

Pradesh, Gujarat and Ma-

harashtra. Our politicians

were more engrossed in petty

politics and these grave issues

were too unimportant for

them.

Now after the floods

no one talks about a perma-

nent demographic change.

Bihar cried for help and the

country answered generously.

Youth For Equality

also joined hands with Indian

Railways and sent teams of

relief workers to Supaul in Bihar. This encouraged us in

Pune and we too collected

some money in our campus.

(G.H. Raisoni Colleges, Pune)

we were greatly supported by

our principal in this event.

Besides our cam-

paign against caste based res-

ervation, we initiated a cam-

paign for Bihar Flood relief and the overwhelming support

we got from students, authori-

ties to extend our helping

hand for Bihar flood victims

is noteworthy.

YFE Unit

G. H. Raisoni Colleges,

Pune

Writing on the Wall !!

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

A little help

for Bihar

1

YFE Contest 3

How long can

political class

fool OBC’s,

SC’s & ST’s

with quota?

4

Case of

affirmative

action in US

law schools

8

How long will

brave officers

die & for

whom ?

10

Letters to the

editor

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“ We can either

move forward and create

Centers of academic excel-

lence, or go along with the

demands of identity poli-tics “

-Andre Beteille,

Member of National

Knowledge Commission,

while resigning from the

body.

A little help for Bihar

Atharva,Pratik,Piyusha,Mayuri.T,Bhargav,Mayuri.P,V.

Shekhar,Ishan,Saideep,Sino,Kamal,Kaustubh,Neha

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P A G E 2

Congratulations to

Vishwanathan

Anand ...

… For winning the

World Chess

Championship 2008

at Bonn (Germany)

News Bar -October Heat !! Income limit for creamy layer OBCs is increased to Rs 4.5lakh p.a. in cen-

tre and Rs 5 lakh in UP.

Legality of raising creamy layer bar questioned in SC : Educationist P V

Indiresan on Tuesday threw an open challenge in the Supreme Court ques-tioning the legality of the UPA government's recent decision to raise the

creamy layer income limit from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4.5 lakh for OBCs.

Health Minister Ramadoss forces 'reservation agenda' on AIIMS: 95 posts

of Faculty positions are reserved.

SC poser on need for OBC quota in civic bodies: Take up a caste-wise census

in the country and complete the exercise in a time-bound manner. The per-centage of SC, ST and OBC reservation shall be proportionately increased

on the basis of the census. This is the directive the Madras high court gave

to the Centre.

SC poser on need for OBC quota in civic bodies: Reservation in Education

and Jobs is OK but Reservation for OBCs in Panchayat and civic body

elections is not needed: SC

Supreme Court will not stay Tamil Nadu’s 69 p.c. quota law: The Supreme

Court declined to stay the Tamil Nadu Backward Classes, Scheduled Caste

and Scheduled Tribes (Reservation of Seats in Private Educational Institu-

tions) Act, 2006, providing for 69 per cent reservation.

Apex court stays JNU students’ union polls: The Supreme Court on Friday

stayed the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students‟ Union elections due on November 3 on the ground that they were being held contrary to the guide-

lines and recommendations of the Lyngdoh Committee.

OBC MPs make out case for a caste-wise census in 2011: MPs from OBC

outfits met home minister Shivraj Patil to demand a caste-wise census in

2011.

Do away with quota mindset in higher education: Advani : L.K. Advani,

wished to do away with the “quota mindset” in the field of professional and

higher education.

Central Universities Bill introduced: Govt introduced legislation seeks to es-

tablish 12 new Central Universities and upgrade four existing State univer-

sities as Central university.

PU to finally free vacant OBC seats for general category: It took more than a

fortnight and a contempt case in the High Court for the Panjab University (PU) to comply with the directions issued by the Supreme Court to de-

reserve seats lying vacant under the OBC quota.

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P A G E 4

Another way to

divide India…..

By region

Praantvaad

How long can political class fool OBC’s, SC’s & ST’s with quota?

India‟s education

sector should be admitted to

intensive care unit. For all practical purposes it has

collapsed. This is happen-

ing at a time when we want

to become knowledge econ-

omy. Instead of worrying

on ways to improve our

education system, our po-

litical class is more con-

cerned about quota to

“help” the people belonging

to OBC, SC and ST. This should remind us of Nero

fiddling while Rome was

burning.

Studies after stud-

ies have showed that even

after 60 years Independence

quota system has not helped

the very people which it is

supposed to help. In some

cases it is more than 100

years. Now the political

class wants to expand the

quota system in appointing

teachers at IITs, IIMs, IISc,

etc. despite the strong oppo-sition by all their directors.

Is any political leader pre-

pared to have a major surgi-

cal operation done by a

doctor based on his caste to

help the OBCs? Why is he

then asking parents to send

their children to be taught

by teachers selected not

based on merit but on caste?

An incompetent teacher can hurt the future of entire

generation including that of

OBCs.

Result of appalling ine-

quality in access to pri-

mary and secondary

schools:

We need sound

strategic thinking and greater appreciation for

ground realties. There have

been umpteen studies, re-

ports, commissions, expert

committees to look into the problems of education sec-

tor both at national and state

levels. But nothing of sig-

nificance has happened to

bring about the needed im-

provement in education

sector. We want to help the

down trodden classes and

the poor. We want social

equity while trying to reach

excellence. Today we have neither.

It is with depress-

ing accuracy we can predict

the level of education one

will attain based on one‟s

economic status independ-

ent of caste or religion or

gender or region as shown

in the following Table-1.

Y F E C R U S A D E R

P A G E 5 I S S U E 1 I I , O C T O B E R

In the table-1, schools

are arbitrarily classified into 8

categories. In the top class we

have expensive residential schools charging from Rs.

80000 to Rs. 2 lakhs a year.

The next category is the private

schools. They are either private

unaided or aided.

All unaided do not give similar

kind of education and they are

further classified into top tier

and second tier. In the private

aided also there are two tiers –

good and bad. The bottom of the

school system is government

schools which are grouped into

good, average and poor. There

are some government schools

which are better than or equal to top tier aided or second tier un-

aided schools. But these are

exceptions. It is not that the

government is not capable of

managing a first rate high school. At one time the central

government-managed Demon-

stration Multipurpose School in

Mysore was the best in the city.

However today it does not have

such high standards of yester

years. A child going to residen-

tial schools is likely to graduate

with a probability of near-

ly100% and is likely to go for

professional college with a high probability of 80%, whereas a

child attending a poor or aver-

age government schools is

likely to complete high school

with 25% to 35% probability

and he or she is likely to have

less than 1% chance of attend-

ing a professional or degree

college. These statistics should

shock any society. But all our

political leaders shed crocodile

tears on this sorry state of af-fairs while sending their chil-

dren to private schools.

It is admirable and praiseworthy

that our political class wants

poor children belonging to

OBC, SC and ST category

should be able to join premier

institutions like IITs and IIMs.

When one looks at the above

table, what chance do they have

of joining even an ordinary pro-

fessional college leave alone

IITs and IIMs? It is only the

children belonging to creamy class with high income level can

afford the expensive coaching

classes and tuition to take com-

petitive examinations. How are

they socially or economically

backward? Does the current

quota system help in the short or

long term to help the downtrod-

den people belonging to eco-

nomically and socially back-

ward classes?

Shocking revelations of dread-

ful quality in rural schools by

Pratham’s ASER :

Since 2005, Pratham

has been conducting ASER

(Annual Status of Education

Report which can be viewed at

www.pratham.org) to provide

district level estimates of the

status of basic learning.

Across the country, 31.9% of the children cannot even recog-

nize alphabets while only 6.9%

can read above level-1. In stan-

dard V, only 58.3% can read at

level-2. The following Table-2

gives the arithmetic levels for

children I to VIII standards.

This is not a pretty picture.

Dr. Bhamy V Shenoy

P A G E 6

Ratan Tata had to

leave Singur due to

incessant protests by

Trinamool Congress

ASER has rein-

forced what we already

knew that while the govern-

ment has succeeded in great measures in creating rea-

sonable amount of educa-

tion infrastructure (number

of primary schools exceed-

ing 1.2 millions) quality of

education our children are

getting is at abysmal level.

While ASER has

showed high enrollment

ratio at primary levels, drop out rates climb to depress-

ing levels as children to go

to higher standards. As a

result India has a poor en-

rolment of 7 per cent stu-

dents in higher education. It

is an average of 25 per cent

in developing countries.

Need for million mutinies

to reform education sector

ASER has also

showed the wrong priorities

of the political class in im-

plementing caste and class

based quota system for in-

stitutes of higher education

like IITs, IIMs, IISc, AIMS,

etc. Experts have showed

that such quota system will help only those who are

from higher income levels

who can attend either resi-

dential schools, or top tier

private schools or can af-

ford to pay huge fees to

attend coaching classes.

What is of critical impor-

tance is to improve the stan-

dards of education in gov-

ernment schools both in

rural and urban areas. To-day teachers working in the

government schools are

better paid, more qualified

and have more training.

Still students are getting

relatively better education

in private schools.

Most teachers are

trained mainly to cover the

syllabus in a mechanical, exam-oriented manner.

Teachers encourage rote

methods and drilling. The

quality of education is a

reflection of the quality of

teachers. Still our political

class wants the appointment

of teachers based not on

merit but on caste. Even

those who are for social

equity and are concerned about the development of

the backward classes do not

agree with these measures.

The Indian government has

earmarked a whopping Rs

850 billion ($21 billion) for

the education sector in the

11th Five Year Plan, which

ends in 2012. The budget is

almost five times more than

the budget allocated for the

education sector in the pre-vious 10th Five Year Plan.

Unless three strate-

gic reforms, namely, elimi-

nation of public examina-

tion system, total decen-

tralization by forming local

level education autonomous

body consisting of educa-

tionists, and appointing

heads of the institutions who are properly selected

for their managerial compe-

tence and training, any

other measure like DPEP,

Serv Sikshan Abhiyan , new

Na t i on al Cur r i cu l um

Framework etc will not

have any impact. We need

million mutinies in different

parts of India. There are

thousands of NGOs work-

ing hard to improve the quality of education. Their

efforts are a drop in the

ocean of state indifference

and wrong centralized poli-

cies. Partly literate citizens

are also to blame who have

remained indifferent.

From first day in

the class to the last day,

teachers emphasize how to secure high marks in the

public examinations con-

ducted by faceless people

through an inhuman and

anti-learning system. This

was the system originally

implemented by Macaulay

to produce clerks for East

India. When most of the

developed world has given

up on such examination system, we in India are un-

able to reform or drop it.

Teachers while critical of

the present day examination

system are against the ex-

amination reform since the

status quo gives them ample

opportunities to earn money

through coaching, tuition

and grading papers. We

need to drop public exami-

nation system and move over to a more student and

learning oriented examina-

tion system.

73 rd and 74 t h

amendment to the constitu-

tion was based on total de-

centralization to achieve the

dream of Mahatma Gandhi.

One of the topics to be de-

centralized was education. Since education sector gives

ample opportunities to earn

huge money under the table

through transfer of teachers,

recruitment of staff, selec-

tion of text books, etc po-

litical class would like to

keep all the levers of power

at the state capitals. We

need to dismantle the elabo-

rate centralization and allow

city or taluk level formation of education autonomous

body to take over the re-

sponsibility of education

sector.

Finally we need to appoint

Y F E C R U S A D E R

R E A L L Y ? ?

P A G E 7 I S S U E 1 I I , O C T O B E R

heads of the institutions not

based on some “donkey years”

service system. Such a system

forces the educational institu-tions to appoint the senior most

teacher as the head irrespective

of his or her competence. We

need a new cadre of teachers

who are selected on a competi-

tive basis. They should have

management ability as well as

pedagogical competence. They

should be held accountable to

carry on their responsibilities of

imparting quality education to all while giving them all the

power to hire and fire the teach-

ers like in any well run institu-

tions.

None of the three strategies sug-

gested is easy. But they are ab-solutely necessary. Instead of

working on these reforms to

impart better primary and sec-

ondary education to the children

of OBCs, SCs and STs, our po-

litical class are more interested

in providing higher education

and jobs to the creamy class in

the name of redressing the civi-

lizational blunders of discrimi-

nating against them. The exam-ple of Democratic Presidential

candidate Barrak Obama should

teach our political class how to

help the OBCs. But are they

really interested in helping the

OBCs or more concerned about

the vote bank politics?

Dr. Bhamy V. Shenoy, an

alumnus of IITM is an

advisor to Pratham My-

sore and was former

member of the governing

council of Manipal Insti-

tute of Technology

A T A L B E H A R I V A J P A Y E E

F O R M E R P M — I N D I A

M E S M E R I Z I N G P O E T R Y

H A P P Y D I W A L I T O A L L

R E A D E R S ! !

P A G E 8

The Gujjar saga is

just an harbinger

of times to come...

Case of Affirmative Action in US Law Schools

The caste based

reservations in India are

highly criticized not only

because of its methodology or „process‟ but also be-

cause of its „place‟. And

hence there is a general

apprehension about whether

it is serving its „purpose‟ of

not. While in India few

credible researches have

gone into assessing this, a

similar study was done in a

US law school in 2004.

In his research

titled “A systematic analy-

sis of affirmative action in

American law schools”,

Professor (Dr.) Richard H.

Sander made a path break-

ing study and came out with

eye opening results which

have been widey discussed

and debated. Dr. Sander is a

professor of Law at Univer-

sity of California Los Ange-les (ULCA) law school and

analysed the law school

admission data and the fail-

ure rates of the black stu-

dents.

A copy of the report can be

accessed at: http://adversity.net/Sander/Systemic_Analysis_FINAL.pdf

In the US, affirma-

tive actions are the policies

meant to promote the access

of historically socio-

politically non-dominant groups to education and

employment, are also called

racial preference policies or

simply racial quota.

The data showed

that around 50% of black

students formed the bottom

10% of the class and these

were more than twice as

likely as the whites to drop

out. These black students

who were given admission because of the quota were

six times as likely as whites

to fail the bar exam after

multiple attempts.

Based on the

analysis, Prof Sander

reached to the conclusion

that racial preferences in the

admissions resulted in a

counterproductive mis-match between the abilities

of the black beneficiaries

and the law schools which

gave them admission under

affirmative action. In the

case where black students

were given admission pref-

erably under affirmative

action, their failure rates

were much higher than the

law schools which matched

their academic abilities. This in turn harms not only

the law schools but also

these very black students

for whose benefit such poli-

cies are made!

A very similar

condition is prevailing in

the case of caste based res-

ervations in institutes of

higher learning in India.

From Prof Sander‟s re-

search it comes out that a preference-policy benefici-

ary student was more likely

to succeed if he was al-

lowed to take admission in

a college matching his aca-demic calibre – i.e. where s/

he would have got admis-

sion solely based on his/her

merit, rather than s/he be

given admission to an insti-

tute where the teaching rig-

ors are much higher than

what s/he can cope up with.

This points out at

the fallacy in „place‟ ele-ment of the quotas. And this

research result makes a very

strong advocate for removal

or non-inclusion of any

reservation policy in insti-

tutes of higher learning. If

India has to succeed, the

foundation has to be made

strong – focus should be on

primary education and let

the best talent grab the op-

portunity to get through the competition and access the

higher education, irrespec-

tive any bias like caste/

gender. It is time we stop

for a moment and see if our

3Ps are correct: Purpose,

Process, and Place of any

such reservation policies.

Kumar Rahul

NMIMS University,

Mumbai

Y F E C R U S A D E R

P A G E 9 I S S U E 1 I I , O C T O B E R

Dussehra –A Victory Day

PROTEST MODE

CHENNAI

If quotas are

introduced for

the poor, will

there be a mad

rush to be

called poor as

has happened

in the case of

caste based

reservations ??

Dussehra is a Victory Day, Victory of Lord Ram over Ravan, Victory of almighty God over devil, Victory of good over evil, Victory of dharm over adharm. It is a victory of life over death. A victory of hope over despair, A victory of creation over destruction, A victory of light over darkness, A victory of knowledge over ignorance. A victory of justice over injustice, Victory of dignity over oppression, Alas! This victory will remain incomplete, Till all the Kabeels, Sabeels and Afzals are hanged

Dr. Y.K. Sharma

Delhi University

AROUND THE WO RLD

B A R A C K O B A M A I S S E T T O

B E T H E F I R S T A F R I C A N

A M E R I C A N T O B E E L E C T E D

T H E P R E S I D E N T O F T H E

U N I T E D S T A T E S

M A R T I N L U T H E R K I N G H A D

S A I D I N H I S F A M O U S

S P E E C H O F 1 9 6 3

“ I H A V E A D R E A M T H A T

O N E D A Y O N T H E R E D

H I L L S O F G E O R G I A T H E

S O N S O F F O R M E R S L A V E S

A N D T H E S O N S O F F O R M E R

S L A V E O W N E R S W I L L B E

A B L E T O S I T D O W N T O -

G E T H E R A T A T A B L E O F

B R O T H E R H O O D ”

T H I S D R E A M M I G H T S O O N

C O M E T R U E ! !

P A G E 1 0

How long will brave officers die & for whom ??

. YET ANOTHER

brave man laid down his

life while performing his

duty. Delhi police‟s most decorated inspector Mohan

Chand Sharma‟s sense of

duty can never be forgotten

by a true patriot. When the

entire nation is sceptical of

the response by the state

machinery to terrorists, it‟s

the presence of such brave

officers which provides a

glimmer of hope. May his

soul rest in peace and may his valiant act not go in

vain.

But my only point

is how long should brave

and patriotic officers lay

down their lives for the

blunders committed by an

incompetent government

and coward politicians? The

death of innocent people

doesn‟t matter to them; they are busy playing their own

politics. The Central gov-

ernment has shown no incli-

nation to counter terrorism

and there is a complete ab-

sence of leadership. More-

over, allies of the govern-

ment, like Mulayam Singh

Yadav and Laloo Prasad

Yadav have gone on record

as saying that the Student Islamic Movement of India

(SIMI) is being targeted in

the country. So they are

trying to convey that our

investigation agency and

our intelligence is a total

failure and they are right.

Should not action

be taken against these two

leaders for openly support-

ing the revocation of ban on SIMI? Are these politicians

not as culpable as the ones

who commit the dastardly

acts of terror?

Terrorists will win,

if an unspoken religious

subtext defines and divides

our political class. The main

opposition party is leaving

no stone unturned in harp-

ing on the reintroduction of

the Prevention of Terrorism

Act (POTA) and in criticis-

ing the Centre; but it has no

time to focus on the prob-lem and find a solution. At

times I feel why the terror

attack failed on December

13, 2001. I don‟t want as-

surances and condolences

anymore.

At the present mo-

ment the state looks weak,

helpless and paralysed.

Politicians are only concen-

trating on their vote banks and delivering parochial

speeches to strengthen their

position before the general

elections. They just can‟t

act strongly in an hour of

crisis. Shivraj Patil was

more interested in dressing

himself up when he was

inspecting the blast sites.

He is the wrong man for the

job. The Prime Minister hasn‟t addressed the nation

for years on television now

and is shying away from his

responsibility and credibil-

ity by not convening the

monsoon session of parlia-

ment. This is the new face

of the world‟s largest de-

mocracy. The nation, as a

matter of serious planning

and vision, has simply van-

ished from the agenda of those who are the known

faces of our leadership and

represent the decision-

making apparatus of the

country.

Our ministers are

busy playing their cards

right to improve their

chances at the next elec-

tions; but none of them has

ever shown any interest in

pushing for reforms in the

police force or giving more

power to our security agen-

cies or bringing in stringent laws or modernising our

security apparatus. The in-

formation and broadcasting

minister P.R Dasmunshi

said that there was no need

for special powers for the

police to deal with jihadi

terrorism. He even ridiculed

the concern raised by the

public over the recurring

jihadi terrorist strikes across

the country. The English daily ‟Hindu‟ quoted him as

saying, "Can anyone predict

a terrorist strike? No gov-

ernment can prevent it." So,

going by his words, the

innocent civilians of this

country have no option but

to keep dying at the hands

of the terrorists.

Do I need to say anything

more?

I just want all of us

to come forward and de-

mand action from the gov-

ernment. A nation‟s collec-

tive will is the biggest

weapon against fissiparous

tendencies. America and

China have shown that.

There should be a policy of

„no compromise‟ on inter-nal security. to eliminate

Y F E C R U S A D E R

P A G E 1 1

.this weed; we must get

ready to face the wrath of

these malevolent elements

with the confidence of a victor. People‟s power has

shown the way before and

this is the right time for all

concerned citizens to come

forward and gel as a force

to reckon with. We have to

decide how many more

lives will force us to rise in

revolt under one banner,

namely the tricolour. If you

cannot, then I don‟t want

another inspector like Mohan Chand Sharma to

lay down his life for the

welfare of the callous citi-

zens of the country. This is

very true because only five

per cent of Indians partici-

pated in the freedom strug-

gle; the rest were too lazy

and sadly it could be so this

time too.

Come on!!

Rishabh

Srivastava

Mumbai

Y F E C R U S A D E R

Increase in creamy layer limit is Anti Poor and divisive: Sign online Petition

To all well meaning citizens of India

Govt‟ s decision of increasing creamy layer limit to 4.5 lakhs will defeat the very purpose of reserva-

tion phenomenon. This way we are overlooking, a significant section of backward class who feel dif-

ficulties to even manage their daily meal. They can never be benefited through this reservation pol-

icy.

During the arguments on legality of 27% Quota for OBCs, we have seen the examples of Rikshapull-

ers, Sweepers etc but when it came in fixing the creamy layer limit, we totally forgot them.

In support of 27% reservation for OBCs, it had been submitted that, 97.5% of OBC population had a

daily income of less than Rs 80 but when it came for distribution of reservation benefits, income of

Rs 1200/- per day will be beneficiary of reservation.

Govt‟s argument for hike in creamy layer limit to keep with economic changes sounds absurd, as if the economy is changing for particular caste. If there is inflation, that is for whole Indian society irre-

spective of caste. The transition of creamy layer limit from 1lakh to 2.5 lakhs to 4.5lkahs and now in Uttar Pradesh it is

up to 5 lakhs, looks, as if our backwardness is increasing along with our economy.

The whole decision of hike in creamy layer income limit will snatch the benefits from poor among back-

ward class and widen the social disparity. This is fully a political gimmick to garner vote bank.

The need of the hour is to register our strong protest against such undemocratic and antipoor policy.

Please come forward and sign the petition and forward it to others.

http://www.petitiononline.com/YFE/petition.html

Editor

B A N K S T U M B L E

M A R K E T S F U M B L E

P A G E 1 2 I S S U E 1 I I , O C T O B E R

Asato ma Sad gamaya; Tamaso

ma Jyotir gamaya

Lets share the light of happiness, brotherhood and

knowledge, to remove the dark-

ness of caste based discrimina-

tion and build a nation of new

dimension.

Welcome to the third

issue of YFE Crusader. This

issue covers articles on reserva-

tion policy and its effects on

society. Also a news section on various issues related to educa-

tion and reservation has been

included. Hope it will make the

readers aware of certain relevant

facts on reservation, which is

the aim of this e-paper.

The need of the hour is

to spread our views and keep everyone integrated to challenge

the divisive forces who are try-

ing to divide this nation.

I appeal all like minded

citizens to come forward and

raise their voice against injus-

tice. As a part of our awareness

campaign against ill effects of

present reservation policy we

have taken this initiative and I welcome the scholarly contribu-

tions from all the well meaning

citizens who oppose caste based

reservation. This e-paper will be

made available on our website.

Articles can be mailed to YFE

Crusader at

yfemovement@yfemovement.com

Write in to YFE Crusader and make your voice heard by all.

N.Agasti

- Editor

The editor can be reached at

editor@yfemovement.com

E

we know very well that this caste based

reservation in 21st century will push

India back to 19th Century.

Best wishes

Sir,

Reservation issue will be a water gate for Congress and a long long

problem for India.

Dear Agasti,

For long days I am getting

your mails. Sometimes I think we are

unable to work along with dedicated

workers like you and your friends in

D.U. We are just helpless onlookers-

-who know very well that our fight

will never succeed in the uneven

battle with the Government.

However, we will always

render our moral support to you as

Any democratic Govt. will

find it difficult and can not solve it. It

is now out of limits.

Sir,

Creamy Layer hike for OBC‟s

is a shocking betrayal of the People of India by the Government of India.

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a very happy

Dussehra &

Diwali. May

every day of

your life be

happier than

the passing

one”

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