Click to play videoDausa (Rajasthan): Dausa burnt through Tuesday it was not until late evening – when 14 people had been killed in the violent clashes - for the people's representatives to visit the place and turn the tense town into a political battlefield.
Area MP Sachin Pilot reached Dausa in the evening and set the agenda, even demanding President's rule.
“This government has no moral authority to continue. They must resign immediately and if they don’t do it on their own, I will have to employ Central Government to intervene and impose President rule in the state,” Pilot said.
But even late in the evening, there was little evidence of the state's administration in the area, apart from policemen.
It took Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje almost the entire day to show up from Delhi, and that too with a visit to a Jaipur hospital where some of the injured were being treated.
“We tried coming to the area but the roads were blocked. Then we arranged for an aircraft and came as soon as we got one,” said Raje.
By the evening, the violence had died down but the tempers were soaring. Gurjars were as angry as they were through the day.
"This is like the Jallianwala Bagh. Innocent people have been brutally murdered," said Gurjar leader Col Baisla.
Gurjars have been demanding Scheduled Tribe status for several years now. But this also brought them into conflict with the Meenas, a Scheduled Tribe. The immediate provocation came last week, when a cabinet committee met to consider the demand.
Meena MLAs threatened the state government with an agitation if the Gurjars were given ST status. But Vasundhara Raje government is yet to take a call on their demands.
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