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The new leader from Gujarat is an unpleasant young man with dodgy political ideas and dodgy political heroes. But, he said something during last week's Patel rebellion that many in present day India agree with. In an interview to The Hindu newspaper Hardik Patel said, "Either free the country from reservation or make everybody a slave of reservation."

In Banaras Hindu University, during last year's election campaign, I met students who said that one reason why they were voting for Narendra Modi was because they belived he was the because they believed he was the only political leader who could end ?aarakshan.? They told me that 70 per cent of the seats in their university were reserved and this meant that those who had only the ?general? category available had to compete much, much harder. When it comes to medical and engineering colleges, the problem is more serious, since if you are low of caste you can become a doctor or an engineer with half the marks that an upper caste students needs.

Reserved quotas for backward castes and communities were an idea born out of times when ?the people? were supplicants at the high table of political power. It may have been useful then. But, today is has become such an absurdity that while increasing numbers of Dalits are demanding bank loans instead of sops, powerful rural communities are demanding sops. The Patel uprising comes on the back of similar uprisings by Gujars, Jats and Marathas. These are powerful rural castes but this ridiculous situation has been created by cynical political leaders more interested in vote banks than India?s future.

In government jobs, universities, technical colleges and welfare programmes, quotas have become a trigger for caste strife. This is because almost the only people left without a quota are a handful of upper caste Hindu population and they bitterly resent this injustice.

If quotas must exist, they should be for economic and not caste reasons, and if within this category, there need to be special provisions made for castes that have been brutalized over centuries, then these should be in the form of extra generous student loans.

The article given above has been written at the backdrop of which of the following?

A)  Uprisings by Gujars

B)  Uprisings by Jats and Marathas

C) Student?sapprehensionsagainst?aarakshan?

D)  All of these

E)  None of these