Quota for minorities is worst of slice-and-dice politics

When all else fails, you can always count on our political class to fall back on reflexive ‘divide and rule’ politics to muddy the waters and drag us down to the lowest common denominator of our sensibilities. The Cabinet decision on Thursday to set aside 4.5 percentage point reservation for religious minorities within the 27 percent quota for Other Backward Classes has predictably accentuated virulent social divisions and reinforced the regressive politics of identity in a way that has the potential to inflame society.

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