Candlelight anti-quota protest

INDIAN INSTITUTE of Management-Indore (IIM-I) students held a silent candlelight protest on their Pigdamber (Rau) campus to protest the Central Government?s proposal to introduce reservation in institutes of higher learning.

INDIAN INSTITUTE of Management-Indore (IIM-I) students held a silent candlelight protest on their Pigdamber (Rau) campus to protest the Central Government’s proposal to introduce reservation in institutes of higher learning.

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IIM-I Students Welfare Activity Committee (SWAC) co-coordinator Wayne Fernandes, who evolved the idea of involving all IIMs in a nationwide protest and roped in the cooperation of like-minded students, said that the intelligentsia has now come forward in open protest of rules imposed upon the populace by the political class of the country, signaling a change in the mindset of the people.

At the height of the protests earlier, most students of IIMs were not present on campus because they were in different parts of the country doing their internship. However, at that time all students’ bodies across the six IIMs issued a joint statement stating their views and registering their protest.

The students of IIM are against the proposed increase in reservations in graduate and postgraduate institutes of excellence in its present form while agreeing that the weaker sections of the society needed to be given a boost. However, the way in which the boost was being given does not serve the purpose.

IIMs along with the pan IIM alumni body will approach the PM, President and other leaders of the country in an attempt to make their views heard in the correct forum.

IIM_I student Abhishek Chandra opined, “Reservation is just another card in the hands of politicians to get access to some more votes. It is just a step backward in today’s progressive world, which shall not benefit anyone in need of it.”