After Saini, INLD MLA opposes Jat quota

Deepender Deswal

Tribune News ServiceHisar, April 10

The Jat quota issue seems to have split the politicians on caste lines as after BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini, INLD MLA from the Nalwa Assembly segment Ranbir Singh Gangwa has also opposed the reservation.

The INLD MLA backed Saini on the issue and vowed to protest any attempt to include the Jats in the Other Backward Category (OBC). A number of local leaders from the BJP, HJC and BSP also extended support to Gangwa on the issue. They have formed a ‘Pichra Varg Samiti’, which will be a platform for the leaders and other organisations to press for keeping the Jats out of the OBC list.

Addressing a press conference here today, Gangwa, BSP Ram Singh Fauji, HJC leader Fakir Chand, former chairman Bhupendra Gangwa and representatives of backward class organisations justified the decision of the Supreme Court to exclude the Jats from the OBC list.

“We all welcome the SC verdict. The previous UPA government has taken the decision to extend reservation benefit under the OBC to Jats to take political mileage,” the leaders stated in a joint statement.

They announced that the samiti would soon chalk out a strategy to take up the issue and would meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

SJKP writes to PM against BJP MPs

Jind: The Sarv Jat Khap Panchayat India (SJKP) has written to PM Narendra Modi demanding action against BJP MPs for speaking against Jat reservation. National chief of the outfit Nafe Singh Nain said the anti- Jat statements by MPs Raj Kumar Saini and Rao Inderjit Singh are only weakening the party and points towards lack of coordination among its leaders this issue.  “We want to know the stand of the PM, whether he is with these MPs or with Jats,” he said. —TNS