Correct. Not just the IIT seats. All Indian institutions of higher education are completely bogged down by this perverse affirmative action system. Unless an institution is run by religious minorities like muslims or christians, they have to agree to do affirmative action. Even if they are private. Which means in India most of the academic seats are "affirmative action" seats.This is the primary reason why Indian students belonging to the general caste despite being in top 5% have to leave India for aborad. In "progressive" states like Tamilnadu affirmative action has reached near 80% levels.

I will not even go into the extreme hate and propaganda the so called "lower castes" create agains the upper castes who are super minority. In fact an upper caste like Tamil Brahmins (Google CEO Sundar or Chess Grandmasters Pragga/ Vishy etc.) are often terms as Ashkenazi jews of India, high achievers and precisely hated and discriminated against for the same reason.

People in high poisitions in India often use Nazi era propaganda posters to replace a Jew with tamil brahmin. Example: https://thecommunemag.com/how-dravidianists-peddle-nazi-styl...

The so called "lower castes" and "OBC" thinkers like Periyar often supported Hitler's genocide of Jews and claimed that India must do the same to Tamil Brahmins.