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Court
rejects 5 percent job quota for Gujjars in Rajasthan
Wednesday December 22, 2010 04:59:01 PM,
IANS
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Jaipur: In a
major jolt for agitating Gujjars, the Rajasthan High Court
Wednesday rejected a petition seeking five percent reservation in
government jobs for the community.
The division bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Mahesh
Bhagwati held that Gujjars could not be given special reservation.
The court said that the government failed to justify the basis on
which the community should be provided such special reservation.
The judges said that the government could continue to provide one
percent reservation for Gujjars in government jobs. It was given
under special backward class category.
The court, while hearing a petition of G. Sharma, also asked the
government to carry out within a year an exercise to collect
details on the economic status of Gujjars and other communities,
including Raikas, Raibari and Gadiya Lohars.
Reacting to the court decision, Colonel (Redt) K.S. Bainsla,
convener of Gujjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti (GASS), said that the
community would intensify its stir launched Monday.
"The government has failed to present our case in a proper manner
in the court. We want 5 percent reservation. We are not concerned
what court has to say. Our demand was never from the court but it
was from the government. We will only end our agitation after the
government provides us reservation," Bainsla told IANS on phone.
Bainsla asked the members of the community to stop supply of milk
to Delhi. "We have been forced to intensify our stir, we would not
supply milk to Delhi and start blocking major national highways,"
he said.
Train services between Delhi and Mumbai were again hit Wednesday
as agitating Gujjars blockaded a railway track near Bayana, about
150 km from here, in Bharatpur district.
Over 15,000 Gujjars began their agitation Monday. They held
demonstrations in Bhilwara, Ajmer and other parts of the state.
The agitators have also blocked the Bayana-Hindon and
Hindon-Bharatpur roads, forcing the government to cancel some of
its bus services on these routes.
Gujjars under the leadership of Bainsla, after holding a
Mahapanchayat in Bayana Monday, decided on the rail blockade.
Following the decision, hundreds of protesters squatted on the
railway track in Piloo Ka Pura, forcing the railways to divert and
cancel a few trains.
The government has warned that strong action would be taken
against people who damage government property.
In July 2009, the government announced five percent reservation
for Gujjars and 14 percent for economically backward classes
taking the total reservations in the state for various sections of
society to 68 percent.
The high court in October 2009 stayed the quota in jobs and
educational institutions in the state for Gujjars and economically
backward classes as the reservation ceiling had exceeded the cap
of 50 percent as laid down by the Supreme Court.
Gujjars of Rajasthan, demanding reservation for better educational
and job prospects earlier between 2006 and 2008, staged violent
protests in which many lives were lost.
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