Yashwant Sinha, finance minister in the former BJP-led NDA regime, had a well-earned reputation as “Rollback FM”.
Given the speed with which key policy decisions taken in haste are being “revisited” by the current Congres-led UPA regime—the creation of Telengana, the 33% women’s reservation bill, the insertion of a caste column in the census—is Manmohan Singh running the risk of earning the epithet of “Rollback PM”?
Cartoon: courtesy Prasad Radhakrishnan/ Mail Today
Also read: Anybody Dalit in the media and speaks English?
CHURUMURI POLL: Caste in the census or not?
Tags: Atal Bihar Vajpayee, BJP, Caste Census, Churumuri, Congress, Mail Today, Manmohan Singh, NDA, Rollback FM, Rollback PM, Sans Serif, UPA, Yashwant Sinha
27 May 2010 at 11:59 am
“Congress he hath, brahmin ke saath”.
Did not understand this line used ? What does this mean ? What does the cartoonist wants say.
Help, please…
27 May 2010 at 12:11 pm
WTF does this cartoon mean?
A census enumerating caste and economic status will result only in identifying the
krimicreamy layer, no?Mail Today is so unlike India Today group, more readable too. :P
27 May 2010 at 12:40 pm
rollback better than rollcall …!
27 May 2010 at 12:43 pm
What? Is the cartoonist suggesting congress haath is not with aam aadmi?
Sonia G and MMS have joined hands with brahmins to oppress the oppressed castes and minorities?
27 May 2010 at 4:08 pm
A very confused caption….Elaborate with proper evidence.
27 May 2010 at 11:34 pm
What ever!
And why not?! Blame everything Brahmins! For all hostrical wrongs and also present messups!
Consider this – MMS/Congress or any other party has nothing to gain by pleasing the brahmins.. They are a very small minority (Far smaller than Muslims).
They are a convenient scape-goat to blame for all the ills of the society, when they were never the Rulers of India…
The sections who ruled (and continue to rule today), already enjoy reservations or want new reservations done!!! How about that for irony??
28 May 2010 at 12:32 am
At least one of the implications is that the drowning Brahmin in the slime pit will take the prime minister down with him.
Brahmins are always hatching conspiracies. I think Chanakya started it all. The diplomatic enclave in New Delhi is appropriately named after him.
Why there should be so much trouble in Kashmir even after all the conspiracy hatching Pundits were lobbed out on a diasporic ride all over the world, making the state almost all Muslim and Sikh, escapes me.
28 May 2010 at 7:44 am
Chetan K,
MMS is a roll call PM! Only he is not doing it directly but others like Raja, Praful Patel, Twittoor are doing it on his behalf. You cannot be a ’3-monkeys’ rolled into one and offer inane explanations on the splendid deeds of Raja and others:)
28 May 2010 at 10:06 am
WT beep does this mean?
We need reservation based on caste but we do not agree for census.
28 May 2010 at 3:39 pm
Commies killing people and churumuri in ‘See no evil, Hear no evil’ mode?
http://suhanasafarwithme.blogspot.com/2010/05/naxalism-is-internal-terrorism.html
28 May 2010 at 5:08 pm
how does rolling back the caste census turn out to be a congress ke haat Brahmin ke saat!!!!!!
huh Hippocrates
28 May 2010 at 6:36 pm
Soon the cabinet will ask for Gotra to be included in the census.Everyone please find out yours and have a default gotra ready.
28 May 2010 at 8:04 pm
One more thing i could not help notice..the brahmin has a smile and seems quite happy in the pit..
why ?
1 June 2010 at 9:42 pm
Stupidity? P.Chidambaram a Chettiar opposes the “caste” census, while Pranab Mukherjee a Brahman is in favour of it. Since some Kannadigas on this blog guys are so taken up with Mannina Maga, please spend some time reading S.N. Balagangadhara’s thoughts on this subject. Baalu not only has set up a cultural anthropolgy center in Europe, but also has established a center at Kuvempu University that has conducted the most extensive study of jatis in Karnataka ever.
4 June 2010 at 9:25 pm
I could not get the cartoon…How would Manmohan help Brahmins? It is the otherway round, Manmohan needs Brahmin support to continue his stint in power.