Cong leader for firm action against Jat stirChandigarh, February 21
Tribune News Service
While opposition parties are keeping mum, there are protests from within the ruling party over the alleged soft handling by the government of those Jat reservation activists who have blocked the rail track near Hisar.
In a statement issued here today, former spokesman of the Haryana Congress Ved Prakash Vidrohi said the blockade of the rail track was an open challenge to the law and order situation in the state by a particular caste. He expressed his surprise over the “inability” of the state government to tackle the situation according to law, adding that the government instead was taking the side of the agitators.
He said the Backward Classes Commission was examining the demand of the Jats for inclusion in the backward classes. The community had placed its case before the commission. The other communities opposing the demand of the Jats had also pleaded their case before the commission.
Now it was for the commission to decide on this matter. He regretted that the Jats were trying to intimidate the commission. Vidrohi said it was not understandable why the police was giving a free hand to the agitators to hold their agitation in whatever unjustified way they wanted. Urging the Chief Minister to deal with the situation with a firm hand, he said the Congress had already paid for the lapse of the administration by losing its security deposit in the Hisar Lok Sabha by-election.