The union ministry of human resource development’s draft Bill extendingreservations to other backward classes (OBCs) in central educationalinstitutions like IITs and IIMs has drawn flak for simplistic, if notmisleading, reasons. Observers, for instance, have dubbed it as Mandal II,without realizing that it was none other than the Congress party itself thatsupported the agitation against the implementation of Mandal I in 1990. Noneother than Rajiv Gandhi, former prime minister, was believed to be opposed tothe divisive agenda to impose quotas in centrally funded educationalinstitutions at that time.