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Retrograde step

The Constitution (104th) Amendment Bill, passed by Parliament on Thursday, is a retrograde step. It reveals that our politicians will resort to any method for the sake of votes.

I am not against reservation on the whole; I am against the way it is being implemented.

Reservation should be on the basis of economic criteria, not on the basis of caste.

M.S.R.A. Srihari,
Khammam, A.P.

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India, being a mixed economy, can only thrive in an atmosphere where the private sector functions with least government interference. The present move runs contradictory to various privatisation, liberalisation, and globalisation measures being adopted since 1991. Moreover, the exemption of minority institutions from the ambit of the Bill flouts the "canon of equality."

S. Ramakrishnasayee,
Ranipet, T.N.

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