There has been way too much propaganda against OBC reservations, ranging from the falsehood that the Mandal Commission used the 1931 census to determine wh the OBCs are, to repeating ad nauseaum the untruth that the OBCs are “powerful castes”.

The most cunning of this propaganda has been that we don’t have the data, cannot and will not have the data that tells us exactly how and who are “socially and educationally backward”. All of this propaganda obviously beats around the bush rather than honestly admit that that these propagandists cannot digest India’s excluded castes gain access to equality of opportunity and social mobility. One such propagandist writes an anonymous blog called “Reality Check India”.

Fellow Blogbhartian Kuffir takes on RC in an excellent post:

q: so this issue is really about mudaliars, gounders, pillais, naickers.. and how they’re trying to stop the collection of data in tamil nadu because they wish to corner all the seats at the national level?

rc: no. it looks like students from andhra pradesh are going to corner all the seats at the national level. (’For every AP candidate who made it, there are plenty who “just missed out”. It is anyones guess that AP will project its dominance further by monopolizing the new OBC quota as well.’

q: so this issue is really about how mudaliars, gounders, pillais, naickers are trying to stop collection of data in tamil nadu so that students from andhra pradesh can corner all the seats at the national level?

rc: no. the issue is all about how ‘Only one community is paying for the sins of all.’

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