Whats wrong????

"India is perhaps the only nation where the race is for being backwards" -That was RK Narayanan' comment after the Gujjar's showdown for NOT casting them as a backward class. This is ceratinly someting going very wrong and I think the roots lie in the cast system. Why not the Govt declare either everyone as backward class, if it makes people happy....or make everyone no-class! Can there be a ground of discretion that follows the income level or somse kind of advantage to poor people so that those who really deserve can get soem help. In thi particular case of the Gujjar's protest, I donot blame the people, infact its teh mestake of the political parties involved or rather its the policies of our law makers that can be blamed. Giving, and even advocating special resravtions for these backlward class, without assuring them proper (or equal ground) essential education is not going to lead us towards any progress. I still remember the strong resentment from the students who were not clasified as a special cast against the decision to increase the reservation quota in graduation studies for the so called unprivelleged- the unprivelleged who have a quota in almost everything including jobs! If our very own leaders who are so concerned for these backward classes cannot provide these people with basic facilities so that they can atleast think for their good, what is a graduate studies going to help them? Many of these classified people are unable to cope up with the level of difficulty at that time and they get frustrated, or they get so used to these reservations that they donot even attempt to come out of this shadow of the class that is letting them have an upper hand above everything.
Iam not against the development of these people and I do understand that these privlages are meant to take them out of that backwardness. But what Iam against is that in the process they forget about the no-class people who are not given any special rights, and who form most of the Indian population.
Once, being called of a backward class was supposed to be a social stigma, but I dont think its the same case now..rather people can proudely go on roads if they are not considered as backward! Guess something is seriously wrong with my country...