Quota Madness Poem by Dr. Yogesh Sharma

Quota Madness



Quotas and quotas,
The swelling of sluggishness, digging the nation down,
Never ending holocaust and depression,
For merit and excellence.
Here the Koel stammers its dying throat,
Here the naught smells all the flowers,
Here great gurus and scholars are unemployed,
Dying un-noticed and un-recognized.
Here pot-bellied Buddha only smiles,
On this game of death.
In this sleeping nation,
The great all – all knowing,
Know nothing,
Who remembering the dark days,
Shown by false Messiah V.P.Singh,
Who declared merit a curse,
To be zero, a hero but with a tag of quota.

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N.B: This poem is a tribute to Late Sarita Dewedi, a Brahman girl, from Village Malha, Kakori, UP., India who committed suicide for not getting job due to caste based reservation/quota system in India.

V.P.Singh- Former Prime Minister of India, who implemented Mandal Commission recommendation, which gave reservation/quotas to certain castes in India. Large number of youth committed suicides and self immolated, opposing caste based quota system.

Read - Amar Ujala, Friday,8 May,2015.
Read – rajastanpatrica.com,14 May,2015.
Read – News18,14 May,2015.
Read – www.jagran.com,14 May,2015.
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