The annual circus called the Budget is here again. We are told that all tax exemptions will be withdrawn no doubt increasing the burden yet again. We are also told that expenditure on primary education will be reduced. At the same time ministers had a meeting with industrialists to start reservation of jobs in the private sector for low caste candidates. Even from the gutter politicians of India this kind of cynical contempt for the people is hard to digest. Reservation helps only those children who have passed high school and is of no benefit to the vast army of illiterates. It helps the drug taking, violent children of politicians and civil servants and divides people along caste lines. Divide and rule was learnt from the British and the Congress has been using it for the last 60 years with other parties joining in. At the same time the son of a police official from Orissa has skipped bail after being charged for rape of a foreigner. The father denies any knowledge of the whereabouts of his son and rest of the police force seems helpless. I am sorry I do not buy it. Sack the father, cancel his pension and keep him jail until the son shows up and then give him life for skipping bail. It is this callous indifference to justice and fair play that gives rise to the grisly rape and murder of children in Noida. Is it any wonder that the police have made a mess of the evidence and the killers may go free? Was it done on purpose? Were politicians involved perhaps?