The conspiracy to destabilize reservation first takes place in small group meetings of top IAS-level officers. Shortcuts for this will spring up in their brains. They will also organize some reports so that the blame does not fall on their heads. They will also make some false figures to mislead the administrators that if the current system of reservation continues, only reserved community members will be in the service and educational institutions. Ministers who do not think about the consequences of this on their own will allow the order to be issued. As for the ministers who are not interested in the backward communities, they will happily implement this as if this is what everyone wanted!

If we don't wait cautiously with our eyes and ears wide open, these people will keep trying to rob the backward communities of all the constitutional benefits. This should never be allowed by the backward communities and the organizations leading them. If allowed, we will be robbed of our benefits and there will be no point in lamenting. Therefore, it is one of the greatest needs of the times that the leaders of the backward communities should be vigilant to nip such reservation subversive attempts in the bud.

The government order has come down to topple the 20-year-old floating reservation system for medical and engineering admissions in the state. According to media reports, the high official lobby made this move by misleading the Higher Education Minister R Bindu. If the existing system is changed, backward-Muslim students will lose more than 700 reserved seats. The official lobby is moving strings to replace floating reservations with institutional reservations. As a first step, the Principal Secretary of Higher Education has written to the Entrance Commissioner asking for an amendment in the prospectus stating that institution-level reservation is sufficient.

K Prasannakumar's report which clearly explains all this was published in Sunday's Kerala Kaumudi. If the Entrance Commissioner includes it in this year's prospectus, it will be applicable for both medical and engineering admissions. So the Chief Minister should intervene and stop this. So the Chief Minister should intervene and stop this. The bureaucratic lobby tried to do the same manipulation in 2019 too. The then higher education minister KT Jaleel, who realized the harm it would cause to backward classes, met Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and prevented this sabotage attempt. Now there is a system where a student who is eligible for a seat on state merit and reservation can transfer to a college that has a merit seat and that reserved seat can be given to someone else who is eligible. A few narrow-minded IAS brains are trying to topple this. This should not be allowed by the Left government under any circumstances. This is the time to convince them that Kerala is not governed by bureaucrats.