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yajuvender
February 21st, 2003, 05:51 PM
Farming comes natural to jats and have proved their mettle in politics as well (Salute to Ch. Charan Singh). Lets examine contribution of jats in farms and politics more closely.

Haryana's dominant population is Jats, who claim all the 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Jats form 17 per cent of the Rajasthan population, and have 40 Vidhan Sabha and at least five Lok Sabha seats.
Further, they are the dominant population in the neighbouring Punjab and also in western UP, called Ganga/Yamuna Pradesh or Harit Pradesh by local Jat organisations. This area covers 21 to 23 Lok Sabha constituencies.
Let's also not forget Delhi, where they dominate another 20 Vidhan Sabha constituencies.
Thus, Jats dominate nearly 60 Lok Sabha constituencies, more than three times that of the Kerala contingent. They have provided one PM in Charan Singh who was equally at home in Baghpat and Panipat and Dholpur and Ludhiana.
Let us not forget the second point, that three of the Jat regions -- Haryana, Punjab, western UP and upper Rajasthan -- are Green Revolution regions, providing most of the food grains for the rest of country. Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 170 million, has a per capita food production of 251 kg.
To compare, per capita food production in Kerala is 161 kg to 177 kg while the national figure is 201 kg.
Thus, the Jats in UP produce food for 137 million of the population. Basically, food produced by UP Jats make up for the Purvanchal, Bengali and Bihari deficits. The excess food from Punjab and Haryana goes a long way in filling those 20 pc empty stomachs of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It is good to have technology but we cannot eat it. As someone recently remarked, you cannot grow food on the Net!
Further, Jats are a dominant and unipolar group. Their only differences are religious, but this seldom lends to conflict. Jats and Sikhs get on well together.

- Yajuvender

sanjaychhikara
February 21st, 2003, 07:19 PM
Pure facts about JATS, GOOD Research BHAISAAB

kharub
February 21st, 2003, 07:52 PM
Thanks for the invaluable knowledge.

Cheers,
VJ Kharub

raj2rif
February 22nd, 2003, 07:38 AM
Dear Mr. Yajuvender,
Thanks for the information. I was just wondering as to how this dominance can be converted into the political power. Because, after all how many communities single handedly may be doing this much for the country.
Unity of purpose is going to be the key to success. This may be a good forum to foster brotherhood in community members.
Thank you once again for bringing out these facts. We are actually ignorant about our own achievements and capabilities. Don't forget, we also produce maximum soldiers as a community.

yajuvender
February 24th, 2003, 03:00 PM
I absolutely agree with your views. Infact, we have most hard working people in our community. Despite that community did't show expected progress.

Deep down the villages, education is still a dream and wtaching a movie still considered as an achivement.

Its time for us re-route our roots back to villages, where our community resides and take them in mainstream.

I know, its very difficult. But we should keep going.

Regards,
Yajuvender




Col Virendra S Tavathia(Retd) (Feb 21, 2003 09:08 p.m.):
Dear Mr. Yajuvender,
Thanks for the information. I was just wondering as to how this dominance can be converted into the political power. Because, after all how many communities single handedly may be doing this much for the country.
Unity of purpose is going to be the key to success. This may be a good forum to foster brotherhood in community members.
Thank you once again for bringing out these facts. We are actually ignorant about our own achievements and capabilities. Don't forget, we also produce maximum soldiers as a community.

rkumar
April 22nd, 2003, 04:55 PM
Jat has great survival instincts and this is why everyone says that, " Jat mara tab jaaniye jab tahrveen hoi." Jat has many good traits like;
1. Hardworking
2. Kind and helping
3. Self respect concious

But has many not so good qualities also like every community has;

1. Hard to bring him under any community project and every one wants to be the leader of project.

2. Lack of foresight on parts of majority of Jats, thereby lacking long term strategies.

Community building is a continuous process and not one time. Fact is that very few people made serious efforts to lift our community and those who did, the results were spectacular. Every problem has a solution and all we need is patience and hard work to solve it. I am convinced, Jats will play major role in Indian politics.

Rajendra

rsdalal
April 22nd, 2003, 06:19 PM
Very Good article indeed.
But I beg to differ on this, It has been proved that technology is more important than agriculture and if we have both than Sone pe suhaga.


Yajuvender Singh (Feb 21, 2003 07:21 a.m.):
It is good to have technology but we cannot eat it. As someone recently remarked, you cannot grow food on the Net!
- Yajuvender