Dark clouds ahead

After the 2026 caste census, the BJP will fully turn toward appeasing SCs, STs, and OBCs, while the Congress will do the same and also court Muslims. The BJP will likely implement delimitation to try to win the 2029 elections — one of the most dangerous steps it could take if it truly wants to preserve national unity. With the caste census will come demands for increased reservations, private-sector reservations, and other changes. If the Congress raises these demands and the BJP fears losing votes, the BJP may mirror those demands or even go further. This will probably give rise to another mandal 1990 type of protest but the bjp and congress will probably crush our voices this time like how they did back in 1990s.

Since 1995, when our economy liberalized, IT outsourcing has been our principal growth engine and major employment generator. Remove that, and our economy resembles the pre-1990 era: the same manufacturing and agricultural structure as under the License Raj. Now, with AI reducing jobs in some sectors and with limited innovation, the employment crisis will worsen. Essentially, we could return to pre-1990 growth rates — a development that could be catastrophic for our republic.

We might become worse off than South Africa: there, the fault line is largely racial, whereas here a politically empowered majority could turn against upper castes. Is the solution a separate nation? We would still have the army, whose officer corps is largely drawn from upper castes. Do you think that with delimitation and weak governance it can give rise to a civil war in India?

Remember, Nehru and Gandhi never wanted this kind of India. If push comes to shove, we will fight for our freedom like any other oppressed people. We are a free people; freedom is in our blood, and we will not be oppressed for future 5,000 years to make them happy that there past 5000 years are now compensated.