Govt won’t succumb to Jat quota body’s pressure: CM
CHANDIGARH: Haryana chief minister (CM) Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday said the state government will not succumb to the pressure being mounted by the All India Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti (AIJASS), saying the Backward Classes Commission was seized of the matter.
Khattar’s tough stand assumes significance in the backdrop of show of strength by the AIJASS in Rohtak on Sunday where the pro-Jat reservation leaders cautioned the state BJP government of re-launching their ‘Delhi Kooch’ plan and set the two months deadline for implementing reservation in jobs and educational institutes.
The AIJASS national president Yashpal Malik had asked the government to finish all the legal hurdles in Jat quota and fulfil all their other demands that were agreed by the CM.
The Rohtak rally was held two days after the Punjab and Haryana high court put on hold the state government’s law on reservation for Jats and five other communities in Haryana till March 2018.
The high court has asked the backward classes panel to give final shape to its report by March 31, 2018.
‘APPOINT JUDICIAL OFFICERS TO OVERSEE SEARCH OF DERAS’
CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government has moved Punjab and Haryana high court asking it to appoint judicial officers for the supervision of sanitation exercise to be carried out in two deras of Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda.
The application was moved before court on Monday and is likely to be taken up on Tuesday. “It is a sensitive exercise. We do not want tomorrow allegations are levelled against any official of any concealment. So, it is better a judicial officer is appointed by court to oversee the sanitization exercise,” state’s advocate general BR Mahajan said.
Another official privy to the matter said that media had been portraying the dera in a certain fashion claiming all kinds of facilities, which might not be the case.
“Also tomorrow dera might also claim that certain items were not shown in the recovery by officials,” the official said adding that judicial officers would only supervise the operation, otherwise the exercise would have state’s officials.