Numbers don’t lie

With assembly polls around the corner in Uttar Pradesh, the rush to dole out goodies by political parties to Muslims has turned into a free-for-all stampede. First it was Rahul Gandhi dangling the carrot of reservations for the community. Then Mayawati’s proposed their inclusion in an expanded OBC quota. To invest credibility to their assertions, protagonists of reservation flaunt what they claim to be the gospel of truth — the Ranganath Misra Commission report. But has anyone — politicians or the media — really read it? The answer is a resounding ‘no’.

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