When the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protests put the Union government on the back foot, the big news channels along with several social media handles began a curious campaign against caste-based affirmative action to discredit the protests.
The explosion of anti-reservation content on social media and the establishment media’s focus on it at this juncture warrants a closer look at certain quotas that are never subjected to the same scrutiny as caste-based reservations—management quotas and the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota.
