We recently covered the scheme by the Congress to divide social sector funding in proportion to the minorites population.

IndianExpress is running another editorial which which helps clear the political motives, and the social repurcussions behind the scheme..

The UPA’s proposal also highlights — through its extreme measure — the gradual erosion of the equality of opportunity by recourse to identity politics. That equality guaranteed in the Constitution is meant to be enhanced through affirmative action and safeguards for the rights of minorities. Instead, by lazily opting for easy measures like reservations in ever more sectors and institutions, successive governments have been transforming affirmative measures into proportional representation.

Read the entire article here.