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I hear this young man and his frustration. During my own days at JNU, I was part of the movement called Youth for Equality, that fought the hypocrisy of reservation policies in India and their rampant politicisation, the ambiguous definition of backwardness and the collective tone -deafness and denial to address the real issues at hand. As a Masters’ student, I contested the central panel election in 2007 and lost because the left vote consolidated. I finished second and YFE lost. We lost on the other three posts too. Then the movement died down because the courts approved 27% quota for OBCs. When the movement had started from AIIMS, it was stayed. None of the issues raised then have been addressed. Affirmative action is reduced to a political tool for getting votes — across party lines.