I have studied in Sainik School, Chittorgarh and I am showing respect to you for the Name you have here-Rathore.
Please explain to me how can calling a person by his caste which is written in our constitution be punishable offence? First remove those words from constitution, then stop its usage? The act which justifies these reservations identifies these people by their caste. These castes are written in our laws? Can you stop me from using what is written in my constitution?
India a secular nation. SC/ST act is against the basic tenets of the constitution as it is specific to a group of people. Either it shud be made applicable to all or to none. I am a Brahmin and you are a Rajput, if I go by your name here. If calling a person by caste is a crime for upper caste, it should be a crime for lower castes also with similar punishment and conditions. Let me see who raises the slogan of Tilak, tarazoo aur Talwaar after that and who calls me and you-Manuwaadi.
In that case you almost certainly went to school with one person or another from my extended family.
Anyways, I don't like this amendment any more than you do; but the situation is such that the BJP didn't have much of a choice but to pander to SC/ST's here; not doing what they did might have led to a wipeout in certain areas like UP and Bihar, for example.
As an Upper Caste person, as a Right Winger, and as a Hindu-Nationalist; between BJP and the unholy, opportunistic Leftist/Naxal/Islamofascist/SC-ST Supremacist khichdi; I have no doubt about which side serves my needs, my family's needs and the nation's needs better. The BJP's core base is Upper Castes, but because they are outnumbered, because they aren't as enthusiastic voters at times, and because they can occasionally become upset (Traders upset over GST, or Rajputs in Rajasthan upset over several different things) - BJP absolutely *had* to take the opportunity during this term to expand its social base so that it can deliver on the agenda that you and I (presumably) support by staying in power for several more terms and having the necessary majorities in legislative assemblies, as well as insulating itself from future electoral shocks.
If you and others become upset, and by some chance the BJP Government actually doesn't come back (I'm certain it will, but still); then once your anger over this matter subsides you will very likely rue your mistake - once the "Secular" Khichdi Coalition engages in massive corruption, makes a mockery of administration, suffers from policy paralysis, engages in naked Islamist Appeasement, goes soft on Pakistan, bends over in front of China, fails to prevent countless major terror attacks and instead blames them on "Hindu/Saffron Terror" and engages in SC/ST appeasement that makes this SC/ST Amendment look like Manuwaad by comparison.