Since independence people are divided into communities and benefits are given to people those who do not belong to Forward Community. I'm not sure on what basis this system is formed and on what basis they say Backward, Scheduled, etc.
If it was formed based on economic status, they could have given monetory help to those who are financially weak. In case they would have formed based on economic status of majority of people in a particular caste, we find people of so called upper caste are below poverty line till now.
Brahmins are called upper caste, and they are the people who are affected by reservation, etc. TN government gave monetary help to students of backward community. But in reality, most of the Brahmins are below poverty line, and have their livelihood from all sorts of menial jobs. Towards north, Brahmins can be easily found cleaning public toilets, a menial job that the government projects as if it is being done only by Dalits since ages. Fifty per cent of rickshaw-pullers in Delhi’s Patel Nagar are Brahmins.
They argue that Pandits are most rich people. The fact is that now, Pandits are living as refugees in their own land. So, on what basis the government is still giving benefits to dalits, and backward community? The answer is Vote Banks. This is what all political parties look for and support to.
Jayalalitha in her previous term said that she will provide subsidies to Christians for their trip to Jerusalem, as government does for Muslim's Haj. Many of the 108 Divyadesams are not having proper road facility too. But she has no care about those.
At Tamil Nadu's Ranganathaswamy Temple, a priest's monthly salary is Rs 300 (Census Department studies) and a daily allowance of one measure of rice. The government staff at the same temple receive Rs 2,500 plus per month. But all priests in temples belong to upper caste. They have no benefits from the government. But government spends Rs 1,000 crores for salaries of imams in mosques and Rs 200 crores as Haj subsidies. They have a large vote banks while in upper caste it is negligible.
This is called secularism. Jaihind.
If it was formed based on economic status, they could have given monetory help to those who are financially weak. In case they would have formed based on economic status of majority of people in a particular caste, we find people of so called upper caste are below poverty line till now.
Brahmins are called upper caste, and they are the people who are affected by reservation, etc. TN government gave monetary help to students of backward community. But in reality, most of the Brahmins are below poverty line, and have their livelihood from all sorts of menial jobs. Towards north, Brahmins can be easily found cleaning public toilets, a menial job that the government projects as if it is being done only by Dalits since ages. Fifty per cent of rickshaw-pullers in Delhi’s Patel Nagar are Brahmins.
They argue that Pandits are most rich people. The fact is that now, Pandits are living as refugees in their own land. So, on what basis the government is still giving benefits to dalits, and backward community? The answer is Vote Banks. This is what all political parties look for and support to.
Jayalalitha in her previous term said that she will provide subsidies to Christians for their trip to Jerusalem, as government does for Muslim's Haj. Many of the 108 Divyadesams are not having proper road facility too. But she has no care about those.
At Tamil Nadu's Ranganathaswamy Temple, a priest's monthly salary is Rs 300 (Census Department studies) and a daily allowance of one measure of rice. The government staff at the same temple receive Rs 2,500 plus per month. But all priests in temples belong to upper caste. They have no benefits from the government. But government spends Rs 1,000 crores for salaries of imams in mosques and Rs 200 crores as Haj subsidies. They have a large vote banks while in upper caste it is negligible.
This is called secularism. Jaihind.
//most of the Brahmins are below poverty line,// its very much true... but most of brahmins even not coming out to say to this society.
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