Arjun Singh thinks that the protests amount to nothing.... read on-
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Deccan Chronicle, May 15, 2006

PM must take stand on quota: Arjun

New Delhi, May 14: A categorical Union human resources development minister Arjun Singh on Sunday said he would not want to roll back a proposal for reserving 27 per cent seats for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in institutions of higher education.
Throwing the ball in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s court, he told reporters at an unscheduled press conference that “it is entirely now for the Union Cabinet to decide, as soon as the Prime Minister allows this to come before the Cabinet.”
By refusing to back off, he has virtually pushed the Prime Minister into a corner and forced Dr Manmohan Singh to spell out his stand on reservations for OBCs. The government has not so far taken a position one way or another. The minister went on to say that the Cabinet, and not the streets of New Delhi, was the appropriate forum for taking a suitable decision on the matter which has engaged the attention of students of medicine in New Delhi and Mumbai alike.
The students intensified their anti-reservation protests and sat on a hungerstrike at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) even as Mr Arjun Singh addressed the media on the lawns of his 17 Akbar Road residence here. He said the protests and the media coverage of the same could not be allowed to “hijack” the process or “browbeat me” into altering the proposal. He appealed to students to be patient and not give vent to their anger on the streets.
Joining issue with the Knowledge Commission chaired by Sam Pitroda, Mr Singh said it was not above the Constitution. “I can only pity them if they do not know that an Act has been passed by Parliament,” he said in response to a question. “The proposal is only an enabling law,” he clarified, and it was up to the Cabinet to decide what should be written into law by Parliament. He said both the Cabinet and Parliament would have to work together to decide the matter.
The minister claimed that no party was against reservations and an Act of Parliament had already been passed unanimously. He evaded a direct response to a question about Mr Rahul Gandhi’s remarks on the issue of reservation. Mr Rahul Gandhi had said both sides had valid arguments — both for and against reservation. Mr Arjun Singh said any suggestion of a “middle path” could not be heard when students raised slogans and the police confronted them on the streets.
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So, Mr. Singh thinks that the medicos are wasting their time ... he obviously has little faith in the power of students.
I think it is time that students from each part of the country took to the streets and show this minister that they are not going to go away despite lathicharges. He needs to be shown that when the students, the youth, decide to bring about a change, they can!
History has shown that students are capable of bringing about a revolution. It is time to repeat history today!!!
Are we up to it or are the politicians once again succeed in beating us down- just like they did the last time around?
It will all depend- on what the students are made up of- and how strongly they can make up their minds!
Its time for a real-life Rang Dey Basanti... minus the murders...