jat reservation

UPA government's efforts to seek opinion of National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) on jat reservation have received an overwhelming response from the community leaders in Haryana.

Union minister of state for water resources Sanjeev Balyan on Sunday said the Jat community deserves reservation benefits in central government jobs and educational institutions

Khap leaders and All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS) will hold a meeting at Hisar on Saturday to decide on the issue of jat reservation.

Haryana finance minister, Captain Abhimanyu, on Wednesday criticised the former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for indulging in politics of threat and vitiating the peaceful atmosphere in the state with jat reservation agitation

Haryana assembly unanimously passed the controversial jat reservation bill on Tuesday, providing quota to community under a newly-carved-out backward class (C) category.

Life in violence-torn Haryana was limping back to normal on Monday with Jat protesters starting to lift blockades in various parts of the state after the BJP announced setting up of a committee under a central minister to examine the quota demand for the community.

The hearing on jat reservations in the OBC category continued for the third day today with the attorney general Mukul Rohatgi appearing for the state government in the case.

The agitation for reservation in goverment jobs and educational institutes by jats in Haryana is wake-up call for politicians to forego of vote-bank politics, say students of colleges in Ludhiana.

The Rajasthan high court recently turned down the plea for special reservation to Gujjars in government jobs citing the lack of quantifiable data that could demonstrate the backwardness of the community.

The government is hopeful that the long pending demand for Jat quota could be met in the next six months after successful negotiations with community leaders saw the proposed protest march to Parliament on Monday being put off.

The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued a notice to Prof Virender Singh, an aide of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on a plea filed by Haryana government over charges being dropped against him by a Rohtak court in a sedition case in connection with the 2016 Jat

The special CBI court on Monday granted bail to an accused in the case pertaining to violence during jat reservation agitation in Haryana.

The Congress party on Friday told TOI that they are planning a ‘mega-rally’ in the national capital to press for the demand for jat reservations in December.

Rail services remained disrupted here for the sixth day on Saturday as Jat activists continued with the indefinite dharna, demanding reservation for their community in government jobs.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected plea of Jat students seeking reservation in admission to PG medical and dental courses.

Taking a leaf out of the BJP’s book, Congress has decided to launch a social media campaign for pitching for jat reservation. Acknowledging BJP’s “success” with social media, Congress leaders said they will now counter the saffron party’s online “propaganda”

Fresh incidents of violence were reported in Haryana on Saturday as the Jat stir for quota intensified with protestors torching a railway station in Jind and blocking traffic at major highways.

As violence spread to more areas in Haryana on Saturday over the Jat quota row, Army columns conducted flag marches at various places in violence-hit districts and curfew was clamped in more towns to bring the situation under control.

In a significant development into the incidents of riots, the Rohtak police on Wednesday booked Prof, Virender Singh, a close aide of former chief minister Bhupinder Hooda and a Khap leader Captain Man Singh for instigating people to resort to violence agitation etc in Rohtak and other places.

The Sarv Khap Jat Mahapanchayat on Sunday threatened to start their agitation while giving a 21-day deadline to the government to withdraw the cases made out against youths during the jat reservation stir.

Haryana cabinet on Monday decided to introduce a bill on the jat reservation in the coming session of the state assembly. "A bill will be brought in the coming session of Haryana assembly," state's education and parliamentary affairs minister Ram Bilas Sharma told reporters after a cabinet meet.