1000s take to streets to protest against affirmative action plan in India

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/May/subcontinent_May712.xml§ion=subcontinent

NEW DELHI, India - Thousands of students and professionals marched through the streets of India’s capital on Saturday to protest a government affirmative action plan to reserve more university seats for lower castes.

Chanting “Stop this injustice,” doctors, lawyers, executives and parents joined the rally against boosting quotas for lower-caste students in top medical, engineering and other professional colleges to 49.5 per cent from 22.5 per cent.

The turnout by other professions at the demonstration marked a widening of the protests that until now have been spearheaded by medical students whose strikes have crippled health care services in state-run hospitals across India.

Medical students from across the country arrived by coach in New Delhi, hoisting banners which read: “Doctors need to be preserved, not reserved.”

[Terran1212]

1. Not the doctors, lawyers, and executives!

Viva that revolution.

[cyberpj]

2. What is the nationwide percentage split by population, I wonder? nt

[NNN0LHI]

3. More than 160 million people in India are considered "Untouchable"

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[cyberpj]

5. one article says 160 million, another says 60 million...

and it's the ratio to the privileged, I guess, that I was after.

[Taxloss]

7. "Harijan", please, or "children of god".

Gandhi re-classified them. Harijans are no longer considered "untouchable", officially, but the prejudice they face is astonishing.

[SeaBob]

4. untouchables

That sounds like social bullshit on the part of the Upper Classes :puke:

[NYC]

6. If they received university degrees,

they wouldn't remain untouchable, would they?

The favored few fighting to preserve their status.

Welcome to DU. :hi: