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'The government doesn't care about students'

December 28, 2006
Dhruv Suri, law student, Delhi.

"I am not at all happy with the government response and their insistence on including the creamy layer for reservations. Now that it has become a law, one can challenge it only in the court of law," Druv rues, and pins his hopes on the public interest litigations filed in the Supreme court.

"Though the government does not care about the student community or give a damn about their demands, I am still not going to settle abroad. Because that does not solve the problem.

"I wish the government had done some in-depth studies and found out whether or not the communities for whom reservation was implemented had benefited or not.

"Everything in this country begins and ends at the political level. Decisions taken by politicians guide the future of youth in this country."

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Image: Dhruv (left) and other representatives of United Students -- Gursimran Khamba (second from the left), Devika Malik (second, right) and Aditya Raj Kaul (right) -- after meeting President A P J Abdul Kalam in New Delhi, May 4.

As told to Onkar Singh
Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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