Reservation in Educational Institutes: Is that what we need??

I was very livid when i first heard about this issue. But what i really fail to understand is that how can someone llike Dr. Manmohan Singh agree to it. Age and Power i guess does this to the most learned of all men. Or is it again our shadow prime minister having her way. (again!) I have never been impressed by her and never will be becuase to me she looks like a shrewd tactician who knows how to win elections very well and can go to any lengths for this. The impending elections are a case in point.
Why is the goverment looking to spoil the next set of entrepreneurs by giving seats on a platter to people who hardly deserve a seat, whilst thousands of intelligent wannabe managers slug it out in the battle where even a 0.01 percentile is going to make a huge difference. This decesion may affect the branding of the IIM’s and even IIT’s hugely …as top notch corporates would never want to recruit dumb asses who just made it because their district collector gave them a certificate that they belong to a section of society that’s the so called Minority. These Minority based reservations seem ok in a goverment job, where not much of intelligence is used or in places where basic job and shelter is provided, not certainly in high profile business schools like the IIM’s and the IIT’s. So dont be shocked if some one who does not even know the CAT from the dog goes on to IIM-A and the real people end up somewhere else. Tell me whom will it hurt more… the IIM’s or the aspiring wannabes. It will be the former as the corporates would never want to recruit those dipshits even if they graduate from the premier colleges, unless the government has its way and manages to coax the private sector into reservation too. and that is the perfect recipe for disaster.
can we allow this to happen? can we seiously let the hard work of past 15 years go down the drain?
and what can be the mother of all ironies we are getting this from a guy who himself was responsible for india shining…
what i seriously feel is that as a developing country we can ill afford to have the luxury of reservations.
and as far as backward classes are concerned, we need a pragmatic approach. sole reservation is not the solution. we need to go bottoms up. we need to provide them basic educational infrastructure, as not many such people benefit from the existing structure. and then let them come up and compete with others. after all OBC or no OBC it is a free market after all.
but sadly this will not interest our politicians as it would not serve their purpose.
I see the motives of the governments of India to be what they are: the blatantly odious manipulation of the population by pandering to the basest desires of people to gain advantage over others. Vote bank politics taken to absurd extents that destroy the cohesion so necessary for not just economic growth but social development as well
Is Dr Manmohan Singh so powerless as to agree to such morally depraved and socially dangerous policies?