What Karnataka and Telangana are demanding today is not social justice; it is constitutional butchery disguised as benevolence. Their brazen push for 56 to 60 per cent reservations, and the audacity to demand its burial in the Ninth Schedule, is nothing but a calculated attempt to permanently destroy the very idea of reservations while pretending to expand it. This is not governance—it is electoral extortion, executed with full knowledge that it violates constitutional morality, Supreme Court jurisprudence, and common sense.
Let us drop the pretence. Reservations were never meant to be a permanent political crutch, nor a blunt weapon to fracture society endlessly. The Supreme Court’s 50 per cent ceiling, upheld repeatedly, was not an arbitrary number—it was a constitutional safeguard to balance social justice with equality of opportunity. Congress knows this. Yet it chooses to trample over it, hoping that once hidden inside the Ninth Schedule, judicial scrutiny will conveniently vanish. That alone exposes the rot.
What makes this charade even more grotesque is Congress’s daily chest-thumping about “saving the Constitution” and its shameless invocation of Dr B R Ambedkar. Ambedkar warned, in no uncertain terms, that reservations were meant to be temporary and remedial, primarily for SCs and STs, to correct historical injustice—not to become a permanent entitlement across generations. He cautioned against their indefinite continuation, fearing exactly what we see today: a society Balkanised into hostile caste silos. Congress didn’t merely ignore that warning—it buried it under six decades of cynical vote-bank politics.
From Independence till the late 1980s, Congress enjoyed near-unbroken power. What did it do with that mandate? It institutionalised caste arithmetic, expanded reservations without reform, avoided periodic review, and converted upliftment into dependency. The 42nd Amendment during the Emergency, the most naked assault on the Constitution, showed how far Congress would go when power was threatened. Today’s reservation inflation is simply the same instinct wearing a different mask.
This is not about the poorest of the poor. It never was. It is about entrenching a creamy political elite within every caste, ensuring permanent vote banks and perpetual grievance. Real empowerment—quality education, economic opportunity, skill development, and jobs—requires competence and intent. Congress governments have failed spectacularly on all four counts. Instead of fixing schools, universities, or employment ecosystems, they distribute quotas like election pamphlets.
The greater danger, however, lies elsewhere. Congress’s strategy is brutally clear: divide the Hindu majority endlessly—caste against caste, sub-caste against sub-caste—so that political unity never crystallises. This tactic is being deployed precisely because Hindu social consciousness is slowly transcending caste barriers. That unity terrifies a party that has survived for decades by managing fragmentation. Unable to counter it ideologically or electorally, Congress resorts to constitutional sabotage.
And then comes the rank hypocrisy. The same party that mutilated the Constitution during the Emergency, misused Article 356 repeatedly, politicised institutions, and weaponised amendments for survival, now lectures the Modi government on constitutional propriety. The Modi government is absolutely right to resist this blackmail. Upholding the Constitution does not mean surrendering it to populist vandalism. Protecting Ambedkar’s legacy does not mean freezing India in permanent caste conflict.
Inflating reservations beyond constitutional limits will not uplift society—it will paralyse it, breeding resentment, eroding merit, and deepening divisions that may take generations to heal. India cannot afford governance driven by panic and appeasement, especially at a time when forces hostile to its civilisational identity are actively probing for fault lines.
The people of Karnataka and Telangana must see through this fraud. This is not social justice. This is power hunger dressed up as compassion. Congress has abused the Constitution for decades and now wants to finish the job by normalising permanent division. If India is to remain a constitutional democracy rather than a collection of warring vote banks, this politics must be decisively rejected.
The message must be unmistakable: the Constitution is not Congress’ hostage, reservations are not an eternal bribe, and India will not be divided endlessly for one party’s survival. It is time—yet again—to send Congress packing.
