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Jats to step up quota stir, government warns of stern action
Monday February 20, 2012 08:56:37 PM,
IANS
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Hisar (Haryana): As
their talks with the district administration in Haryana's Hisar
failed to reach a settlement, leaders of the Jat community called
for stepping up their agitation from Tuesday even as the
government warned they would be dealt with sternly.
Jat leader Yashpal Malik said the community will block railway
tracks and roads from Tuesday after talks with the authorities
failed to clinch a breakthrough here Monday evening.
Hisar Deputy Commissioner Amit Kumar Aggarwal asked the community
not to resume the agitation, and said that the paramilitary Rapid
Action Force has been requisitioned in the district to deal with
any situation.
Having failed to secure reservation for their community from the
state and central governments, protesors from the Jat community
blocked rail tracks in Hisar district Monday morning.
Police said the tracks were blocked near Mayyar village in Hisar,
280 km from Chandigarh, disrupting rail services through the area.
The agitating Jats Sunday served a 24-hour ultimatum to the
central and state governments to make an announcement regarding
reservation for the Jat community in government jobs. The
ultimatum ended at 5 p.m. Monday.
The community members had led a three-week-long agitation in the
Jat-dominated districts of Hisar, Jind and Bhiwani in Haryana in
March last year, seeking reservation in government jobs under the
Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota.
They had later withdrawn the agitation after the Bhupinder Singh
Hooda government assured it would take up their case with the
central government.
The Hooda government later set up the Haryana Backward Classes
Commission to look into the reservation aspect.
The commission is considering the demands of the Roar, Jat, Jat
Sikh, Tyagi, Bishnoi and other communities who wish to be
classified as backward classes in the state.
Last year, the protestors, including women, children and the
elderly, had blocked rail tracks at 15 points across Haryana. The
worst affected were Hisar, Bhiwani and Jind districts.
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