Jats for quota in govt jobs

Jalandhar, November 10

The All-India Jat Mahasabha national general secretary Chaudhary Yudhvir Singh during a meeting of its members held at Lions Club here on Tuesday announced that they would ask the state government to give reservation to Jats in government jobs.

Another meeting on the issue would be held in the month of January, he said. He said that a large number of Jat families were left with only one acre of land. “According to the Mandal Commission reservation formula, Jats to be included in the reservation category, however, the same hasn’t been implemented”, said Yudhvir.

Further, to keep the Punjab wing of the Mahasabha fully functional, All India Jat Mahasabha vice-president Harpal Singh Harpura was appointed as executive chairman of the Punjab Jat Mahasabha.

Harpura was also vested with the powers to appoint new members. Yudhvir said the mahasabha would work to remove social evils, uplift financial status of Jats and would provide higher studies for children along with safeguarding their political rights.

“We are working against the farm laws passed by the Centre and in Punjab new roadmap for the struggle will be designed. Then national president of All India Jat Mahasabha and former Chief Minister of undivided Punjab, Chotu Ram, implemented the mandi system and today the Centre by passing new farm laws has ended it and tried to haunt the farmers by directly benefiting corporates houses. The farmers will not tolerate this and struggle will not be over till the end”, added the general secretary. — TNS