Other Anti Reservation Protests

underemployed even after our graduation or post graduation or our professional degree (like B.E or B.Tech or Diploma) so they were willing to sacrifice even their lives for a good social cause. They asked how many brahmin educated youth are unemployed? Why Govt. is not taking a survey and implement reservation and put behind the bars the anti reservation protestors they asked.

The anti reservation protestors must be dealt as anti nationals or terrorists for their protest amounts to acting like traitors of the nation as they are hindering the development of the majority, they claimed. They blamed the Hindutva backed parties for they were the brain behind the anti reservation protests.

This is very evident from the print media and Sidu a upper caste cricketer, a B.J.P politician openly said he was against reservation for OBC; i.e. why we again and again say “equality for youth” is floated by the fanatic Hindutva forces.

4.1.3 Coverage Given by the Media about other Anti Reservation Protest

1.Most of the experts said that the coverage given by the print media and T.V regarding the anti reservation protests by other people was more in comparison with the pro reservation protests. 2.Actually it is a pity claimed the experts that not many conference or seminar or symposia regarding the anti reservation protests were organised. Youth for equality always made only hunger strike and nothing more. It was also only the medicos who carried out such protests in reality these hunger strikes were supported by one or two times by IT officials, software engineers and others who were Hindutva backed or labelled. 3.It came out as an interesting impact when the bar girls/dancers based in Bombay extended their support and said they would give a performance and collect funds for the striking medicos. The experts wondered the inter relation. This was very well projected in the media.

Prominence was given to this news in a leading daily by publishing it in the first page of it. 4.The experts wondered why the anti reservation protests was carried out mainly by youth for equality which always projected the photos of only two or three persons. Why these protests were not carried out by engineers and other student like lawyers?. 5.A few Brahmins from all educational institutions formed the human chains under the organisation of youth for equality, which was very well covered by the print media and T.V, claimed the experts. Apart from this there was not even a single political leader who ever had the courage to talk against or organise a single meeting against reservation in comparison to the many dozens of such conferences addressed by several non brahmin political leaders favouring reservation. Even several central cabinet ministers participated favouring reservation. It was a pity that both the print media and T.V never even reported it and in fact these central cabinet ministers even made fun of the media to write at least some lines about these protests and telecast it in T.V. It is but pertinent to mention both the print and T.V journalist covered the issues by recording the speeches and by taking photographs but only they have a strong inhibition to publish it claimed the experts. They record it mainly to know our views and pass on these views and material to their Brahmin boss said the experts. The experts further claimed that the reporters were non

Brahmins and many showed enthusiasm to publish it but only their Brahmin boss where against publishing it. The

Brahmin editors scanned the news and all pro reservation news or photos were just thrown out, be it a central cabinet minister or a veteran politician. They were basically against publishing of any pro reservation activities but gave prominence to all anti reservation activities. This was the secret policy followed by them. This is a common deal among all Brahmin dominated media claims the experts, but the reporters were forced to cover the complete programme mainly for them to know what was happening in support of reservations.

The experts said the fear driven Brahmins had no courage to come out in public and organize protests against reservation, for they knew fully well their act of protesting against reservation was very wrong so only they gave their brains to youth for equality, who made all protests and they could get only other than a gutka seller to be burnt against reservation. Till date no proper enquiry or investigation has taken place about how a gutka seller came for self-immolation against reservation when in the first place he was not a educated. The identity of the gutka seller as well as the persons who forced him to do so has not taken such an extra care to project anti reservation protests. The experts wondered why they have not given any importance or done any investigations over this. They claimed the media utterly failed in its duty by not publishing any information about how the gutka seller has appeared in the staged drama of anti reservation. The only conclusion drawn by the experts is that on one side the media is in their hands and secondly the politicians do not want to make a change towards real nations development or progress or is it fear of losing support from the policy makers who are Brahmins? The experts further claimed that the fear driven Brahmins to make sure that pro reservation protests are annulled and it does not take place once again took refuge from the laws of Manu (i.e. the supreme court?) that no protests about reservation should be done either against it or in favour of it. In spite of such orders, the experts said several symposia, conferences and seminars were held in support of reservations presided by central cabinet ministers, veteran politicians, powerful socio scientists in fact organized by students of backward and SC/ST castes. But the Brahmins (and upper castes) had no guts to organize any such ones but once a while to show their existence held some human chains and sported themselves with black ribbons in their left hand sat in silent protests with a collection of a dozen and odd students.

It is still a pity to record that these protests were well covered by the media but the pro protests symposia, seminar or conference was not given any coverage in the leading dailies or weeklies or monthlies or by T.V.