Meet Behenji Mayawati, India's most privileged victim. She demands more reservations. She calls anyone questioning them anti-national. She claims the system has failed Dalits. What she never mentions is her own story. Her grandfather, Mangal Sen, was a soldier in the British Indian Army. This was an elite job for Indians of the early 20th century. When most Indians did not have guaranteed food on the table, less than 1% were fortunate enough to hold such a position. It came with a fixed government salary, a pension, and land. At a time when most Indians were doing unpaid manual labor with zero rights, Mangal Sen had financial stability that most Indians, upper caste or Dalit, could only dream of. That salary, pension and land put the Das family on a completely different trajectory from 99% of Dalits of that era. His son Prabhu Das became a government employee in the postal department through SC reservation. Stable income. Government benefits. His children received free education through reservation schemes. Three generations of state support, stacked one on top of the other. His daughter Mayawati used reservation to advance through education and politics. She became UP CM four times. She accumulated personal assets worth over Rs 111 crore(official). By any measure, she is the single greatest hijacker of the reservation system in Indian history. And yet she stands at podiums telling you the system has failed and she wants more. She justifies reservation by screaming that economical policies for the poor are ineffective. What she doesn't tell you is that such policies are ineffective precisely because of her and her ilk. She herself gulped down budget of 1000s of crores for economic policies, yet 30% of her own Dalit community is below the poverty line. Now she fights tooth and nail against economic reservations for poor GC families. People who never had a soldier grandfather with land and a pension. Never had a government job father. Never had reservation benefits stacked across three generations. Families genuinely starting from zero. She wants them to remain downtrodden and suffer while she and her ilk continue to capture everything meant for downtrodden. Her argument is that caste discrimination justifies continued reservation. Then answer this one question. After three generations of your own family benefiting, grandfather with army salary, pension and land, father in government through reservation, daughter as four-time Chief Minister with Rs 111 crore in assets, at what point exactly does your family step aside and let the actual poor and downtrodden in? Reservations were designed as a temporary corrective measure. They were never meant to be a permanent inheritance system for the same families across generations. Mayawati is not the face of reservation's failure. She is the face of exactly who captured it. In fact, reservations passing down the line for generations is exactly what discriminatory Caste System is all about. The Dalit still doing manual labor in a UP village today holds the same SC certificate as Mayawati. He just doesn't have her grandfather's land, pension and army salary to stand on. He simply doesn't have resources to compete with likes of her for that seat. She wants her family and similar elite families to continue enjoying reservations while poor GCs and Dalits are starving. Worse, she wants to deny these previlges to poor GCs who never had such luck in their entire generation.