Minority sub-quotas will make all reservations farcical

The whole quota business is going to get nonsensical from now on. After the Andhra Pradesh High Court last week threw out the 4.5 percent special minority quota (supposedly meant for Muslims) within the broader OBC (other backward classes) reservation, the Centre has vowed to challenge it in the Supreme Court. What we are staring at is two ridiculous possibilities: a further atomisation of quotas where both SC/ST and OBC quotas are further chopped up into sub-quotas for various sub-castes and religious minorities to benefit from.

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