Jats block Haryana roads, rail tracks
demanding reservation
Wednesday March 07, 2012 06:07:03 PM,
IANS
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Hisar (Haryana): Several areas of Haryana's Hisar, Jind and Bhiwani districts were
cordoned off by the police and other security agencies Wednesday
as thousands of Jat agitators took to the roads and railway
tracks.
Tension ran high in Haryana's Hisar district as members of the Jat
community, seeking quotas in government jobs, blocked the national
highway to Delhi and railway tracks, a day after a youth was
killed in police firing.
The youth, Sandeep, 20, was killed early Tuesday as Haryana police
attempted to remove protesting Jats from the railway track near
Ramayan and Mayyar villages in this district, 300 km from
Chandigarh.
Angry Jat leaders said Wednesday morning they would put the body
of the victim on the highway till the government took action.
In neighbouring Jind district, Jat protestors stopped the official
car of the district and sessions judge around midnight and set it
on fire.
Police sources said the sessions judge and his staff fled from the
spot to save themselves.
"There is complete anarchy here. Thousands of Jat protestors can
be seen on roads and railway tracks. The traffic jam caused by
them is at least 20-25 km long on the Hisar-Delhi highway," a
Hisar resident stuck in the road blockade said.
Nearly 25 protestors were injured in the police action Tuesday. Of
these, 10 were seriously injured and admitted to hospitals here
and in Rohtak.
Jat community agitators blocked the Hisar-Delhi national highway
and the railway track connecting both places. The protestors could
be seen lying down on the tracks Wednesday.
Roads and railway tracks were blocked by Jat protestors in Jind
and Bhiwani districts also, police said.
Police and para-military forces cordoned off many parts of the
affected districts. No vehicles were being allowed to pass near
the areas where the Jat agitators were protesting.
"The agitators include men, women and children. Many of them are
carrying lathis (sticks) and stones," one eyewitness said.
The Jat community has been agitating for the last few days,
seeking reservation in government jobs for the community in the
Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.
They blamed Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for going back on
earlier promises and using delaying tactics and force to break up
the Jat agitation.
The government tried to end the agitation in the last one week but
various factions of the Jat leadership have not agreed to the
promises made by Hooda.
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