Click to play videoNew Delhi: The Gurjar agitation for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status entered the sixth day on Wednesday with the community and the Rajasthan government failing to reach a deal.
As many as 38 people have been killed in Gurjar-police clashes in Rajashtan since Friday. The Rajasthan government has imposed the National Security Act in 15 districts and authorities in the National Capital Region are bracing to deal with the Gurjar threat to block all roads to Delhi on Thursday.
Gurjars leaders met in Bathola village in Faridabad and decided to cut off milk and vegetable supplies to Delhi on Thursday.
As many as 10,000 police personnel have been deployed across Delhi in Gurjar strongholds of Mehrauli, Ghazipur, Patparganj, Badarpur, Khanpur, Ayanagar, Chilla village and Rampur.
Gurjars blocked the Mehrauli-Gurgaon and GT Karnal roads in Delhi on Wednesday for a while on Wednesday.
The Haryana government has announced that its offices would remain open on Thursday and asked the police to ensure security. IBM and some other IT majors in Gurgaon though have asked their employees not to come to work on Thursday.
State lobs problem to Centre
The Rajasthan government has said the Centre should decide whether the Gurjars must be given ST status. "The entire proceedings of reservation should be done at the Centre level. The Gurjar community should take their initiatives to the Centre and use their wisdom," Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said.
In a full-page advertisement issued in leading newspapers, Raje requested the community to end their agitation for the sake of people who have been stranded at different places in the state.
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has forwarded Raje’s suggestion of giving Gurjars more reservation to the Union Law Ministry. Raje on Monday had written to the Prime Minister recommending 4 to 6 per cent reservation for Gurjars in the category of denotified class of tribals/nomadic tribe.
Army chief General Deepak Kapoor has stated that more troops could be dispatched to Rajasthan if required. Currently over 2,100 army personnel (eight columns) have been deployed to tackle the violence in Rajasthan.
The 15 districts where the stringent NSA, under which a person can be arrested without a warrant, has been clamped are Ajmer, Alwar, Baran, Bharatpur, Bhilwara, Bundi, Dausa, Dholpur, Jaipur, Jhalawar, Jhunjhunu, Karauli, Kota, Sawaimadhopur and Tonk.
Turning the heat on 70-year-old Gurjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla, the Rajasthan government is following up on cases of murder, arson and violence slapped against him.
Bainsla, a retired army colonel, has rejected the Chief Minister's proposal on granting Gurjars reservation under the denotified class of tribals/nomadic tribe category. He has called her recommendation to the Centre a "farce".
Bainsla, who has been summoned by the Rajasthan High Court on May 30 , has decided to float his own political party. "We have been always cheated by all the political parties over the issue of reservation. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has cheated Gurjars at least three times. Like her, the Congress has also made false promises," Bainsla, the head of Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti (pro-reservation movement), told IANS in an interview.
(With PTI, CNN-IBN and IANS)
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