From My Diary - Regionalism

Today a new dimension , that of regionalism , is set to divide the country. Earlier only the cards of cast and community were being played by the politicians to mislead the common man and garner votes. Now the card of regionalism is making waves. Lalu, Paswan & Nitish kumar who could not see eye to eye have joined hands to fight the problems faced by the North Indians in Mumbai.

No doubt Raj and like minded people erred by raking up this issue and by taking up law in their hands. They could very well have brought a stay either on the way the railway exams were being given preferential treatment or by citing the prevalent rules for recruitment in Maharashtra. They could have done their home work by giving examples of percentage recruitment of people from UP and Bihar in Railways in last 8 / 10 years. Sadly no one is looking at the problem with a right perceptive. As stated in my earlier blog, the government should fix the percentage of people to be recruited from each state on the basis of the population. This bench mark could be reviewed every five years or so and revised if found necessary. Then this problem of Bhai - Bhatijawad or Regional Bias would not have aroused at all.

The more disturbing issue is the fact that this decease is spreading like cancer in all other walks of life too. Take for example sports first. The selectors and the federations in Cricket / Hockey / Badminton etc are biased in their selection. They want to push sports persons from their region. That should , in fact be done if at all , if all shortlisted sportsmen are equal in calibre.

Recruitment in jobs even in private sector gets biased. you would see this kind of a trend in professionally managed companies also like Ranbaxy, Dr. Reddy's , Tatas, Birlas etc.

More recently you see this disturbing trend playing a big role in almost all reality shows. Take for instance any dance or music show on any of the channels. Whenever the SMS based judgment starts , you see the merit getting sidelined and pushed out. Because the Region based SMS do play a bigger role.

I can not understand why some one , who has the conscious and the money , does not file a writ in the courts and brings a BAN on all this non - sense ??

This is certainly dividing us, our minds and our country, step by step.

Addendum: as on Nov 27 th

Now we hear a congressman saying that the potato in the shiv vada - paav ( Shiv Sena's ) is from UP / Bhihar where as their Kanda - Poha , again a marathi dish is purely with maharshtrian ingredients. What level these politicians can stoop to ??