Reservation & Tamil Nadu

While the idea of reservation has triggered heated agitations and debate in North India, I am not sure why South-India is so indifferent to this issue. Perhaps because South Indians especaially people in TN are so much resigned to their fate. More-over all political parties openly support reservation and nobody dares oppose it. I learn that sometime back a lawyer was also attacked for filing a writ-petition against reservation. With cut-off between the BC and OC categories narrowing very much, it is time to remove the BC category in TN and attach that to the OC category. Will any political party dare to do this. Of-course number(number of votes) count. Infact it is a good opportunity for politica parties like BJP to speak against reservation based on caste or religion. If at all, reservation should be based on other criteria like

1) Background of education (rural, sub-urban) etc
2) Financial status of the family
3) Parent's educational status etc.

Such a sort of reservation will for sure help the under-privileged irrespective of caste and creed. Further, this will also promote better education in rural areas with better infrastructure and flow of better students from urban to rural areas for want to coming into the reservation bracket. Of course, a fool proof mechanism has to be worked out for this. But the congress government is taking the easy and political way of reservation based on caste. It is very unfortunate.