Jat stir is Congress’ doing
The UPA government — eyeing the votes ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections — hurriedly decided to include the Jat community in the other backward class list in nine states
It is the guiding principle for all development policies and programmes of the BJP-led government at the Centre to embrace the aspirations of all states: To amalgamate these aspirations and demands into policy formulations rather than working on the old paradigm of trickledown effect. The Congress advocates and actively pursues the politics of division, on the basis of caste, religion and region. The recent agitation for reservation by Jats is the consequence of votebank politics and misrule of the Congress since Independence.
Between 2004 and 2014, the Bhupinder Singh Hooda government forced the Jats and other communities to sell their highyielding cultivable lands to close relatives and acquaintances of the Gandhi-Nehru family at very low cost. Therefore, a large number of people in the state became landless and jobless.
While virtually looting Haryana, the Congress tried to appease the Jat community for votes leaving nothing for their future. The Congress even ignored the constitutional provisions. The United Progressive Alliance government — eyeing the votes ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections — hurriedly decided to include the Jat community in the other backward class list in nine states.
It may be noted that National Commission of Backward Classes (NCBC) had clearly submitted its advice, dated February 26, 2014, to the UPA government stating that the Jat community did not fulfilled the criteria for inclusion in the Central list of OBCs.
Now, the Haryana Police has booked Mr Hooda’s close aide Virender Singh for sedition after an audio clip of his conversation in which he allegedly incited violence during the Jat quota agitation surfaced. This is proof that the Congress is trying to divide the people of Haryana.
The Haryana government has announced full compensation for damage caused to private properties as well as ex-gratia of `10 lakh to the kin of the 19 killed in the Jat agitation for reservation. It has decided to give full compensation for the loss of properties, both commercial and residential, in the Jat stir. The state government has also ordered an inquiry into the matter of inciting violence.
We all know that reservation is a form of quota-based affirmative action, governed by constitutional laws, statutory laws, and local rules and regulations to uplift certain backward sections of society which missed the race to match pace with others.
This can’t be achieved through divisive political tricks or by destabilising the peace at the behest of some malicious incitement. If this is the case, it is a very sorry affair. Let it be the prerogative of the government and not those who have been misled by the Congress to take the law in their hands.