Question

“the makers of our constitution thought of a special system of reserved constituencies for the weaker sections.”
Read the above statement carefully and answer the question follows:
i) Who are the people belonging to the weaker sections?
ii) How will influential and resourceful people prove to be a hurdle for them?
iii) Who can only stand for election in a scheduled caste constituency?

Answer 1

Hint:
Reservation in India is an affirmative action mechanism that offers representation in education, jobs and politics for historically and presently marginalized groups in Indian society.
The pledge of equality enshrined in the Constitution of India is meant to be realized.

Complete answer:
i) Three communities are principally given the reservation: Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes, abbreviated as SC, ST, and OBC, respectively.
These are communities that have been severely underrepresented in public life in the past, facing social and economic discrimination.
Originally, reservations were only granted to SCs and STs, but after the implementation of the Mandal Commission report, they were later expanded to OBCs in 1987.
ii) With the history of systematic caste and economic division in India, influential and resourceful people have been exploiting the weaker sections for decades. Oppression of one class over the other goes back to time of before independence, untouchability movement by mahatma Gandhi.
Even in this system of reservation the economically advantaged ‘creamy layer’ gets the more share of benefits.
iii) In both the Parliamentary and State Assembly elections, there are reserved constituencies.
General category candidates are not qualified to vote in these constituencies.
Both voters should vote for one of the candidates (from Scheduled Castes or Schedule Tribes). The constituencies are known as Wards in the event of municipal elections and other elections for local bodies.
Thus there can be as many Wards or Districts in the elected body as the number of elected seats.

Note:
On 1st January 1979, under Prime Minister Morarji Desai, the Mandal Commission, or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission, was established in India by the Janata Party with a mandate to 'identify India's socially or educationally backward classes.
It was headed by the late B.P. Mandal, to consider the issue of reservations for individuals to remedy caste discrimination, and to assess backwardness using eleven social, economic and educational indicators.