Pressing for their demand of Jat reservation in Government jobs and educational institutions, the Jat leaders on Friday announced to again launch a Statewide agitation from January 29 next year.
The Jats are demanding the Haryana Government to strongly pursue the case to vacate Punjab and Haryana High Court’s stay on the reservation, release of “innocent youths” arrested during the quota stir held earlier in February and adequate compensation and job to next of kin of those who lost their lives in the stir.
All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) president, Yashpal Malik, after convening a meeting at Sampla in Rohtak, announced that a fresh agitation will begin on January 29 and peaceful protests will be held in all districts of Haryana.
A meeting will be held on January 15 to chalk out a plan for holding protests in Haryana as well as the States, which will go to polls next year, said Malik while talking to the mediapersons.
He said that teams will be constituted, which will campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab ahead of Assembly polls to apprize the people about the betrayal that BJP has done with the Jat community.
The Jats will campaign against the BJP during the poll campaigning, if the party fails to keep its promises, he said.
We have been promised reservation and release of innocent youths arrested during February’s Jat stir but nothing has been done so far, he alleged.
Malik also said that a Jat Nyay yatra has been launched on Friday which will go to every district of Haryana to apprize people about the injustice done to the community.
In February this year, Jat quota stir had witnessed unprecedented large-scale violence killing at least 30 people and destructing properties worth crores in Haryana. The second agitation was organised in June, which ended peacefully.
Notably, the Jat leaders had on December 16 submitted a memorandum to BJP president Amit Shah regarding their demands.
From November 28 to December 15, 2016, the Jats had also submitted memorandum regarding their demand for restoration of OBC quota for Jats at Centre, to around 100 MPs who were elected from Jat dominated constituencies.
Yashpal Malik also alleged that the BJP led State Government is not serious about giving reservation to the Jats and deliberately delaying the matter in the Court proceedings.
After the February’s Jat agitation, which had paralysed normal life in Haryana and affected Delhi and other neighbouring States too, the State Government had brought in a law to provide reservation for Jats and five other communities under a newly carved Backward Classes (C) category. However, the High Court had stayed it, acting on a public interest litigation
The Chief Minister Manohar Lal, while reacting to the announcement of another agitation by Jats said that the State Government had already done what it could do for giving reservation to them (Jats).
A Bill was passed in the Vidhan Sabha but the case is now pending in Court, which the government is pursuing strongly, said the Chief Minister while talking to the mediapersons here.
He added that in a democracy, everyone has a right to protest and we cannot stop anyone.
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