INDIAN POLITICS IS NOTHING BUT TOKENISM TO FOOL INDIANS.

All politicians of all parties are same. It is foolish to claim that if Muslims are elected as MLAs or MPs then automatically all Muslim grievances will be redressed by these politicians from the community.

Despite the Congress (or the Left's) enduring formula of Muslim appeasement when they even had senior ministers and Presidents from the community then why did the Sachar Commission bring out the glaring "neglect" of the Muslim community? It is a myth created by "secular" parties that every community must be represented so that in the event of any mishandling of a situation this acts as an insurance for them as the matter is adjudicated by the community’s representative who will protect his parties interest so that he can get a ticket to get elected again.

Is a genuinely good Hindu politician worse than a thug who is from another community? Why can't a good person from any community genuinely represent all the people in his constituency irrespective of their religion or caste? Is Bihar's gangster Taslimuddin, a minister of the RJD and Lalu Yadav favourite doing any yeomen service to his community? Are the Muslims proud of him? His main contributions are lining his own pockets, killing his opponents and illegally settling Bangladeshi Biharis in his constituency. Lalu Yadav had ruled Bihar for 15 years at a stretch and yet has it improved the economic or social status of the really poor Yadavs of his community? How has Ram Vilas Paswan being a union minister helped Dalits anywhere? Or for that matter U.P Chief Minister Mayavati, another Dalit (backward caste) who sets huge fund collection targets for herself on her birthday every year which led to the killing of an engineer by her cabinet member when he refused to be a part of the looting apparatus?

The sooner we get out of this mind set of "community representation" being a must irrespective of the quality of governance by the Party in power the better it will be for Indian democracy. Otherwise, this mentality of merit less "reservations" will continue to keep us down as a nation.