‘Countrywide stir if quota promise not kept in 6 months’
JAIPUR: The All India Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti on Saturday termed the Kirori Singh Bainsla-led body’s decision to call off the quota stir as a premature step and threatened to launch a countrywide agitation from Delhi if the government didn’t honour its promise within six months.
Bainsla, who heads the Rajasthan Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti which had spearheaded the recent agitation, had called off the stir after the state government promised the Gujjars 5% reservation outside the legal limit of 50% in government jobs.
However, expressing a strong dissent while addressing a press conference on Saturday, All India Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti chairman Ramvir Singh Bidhuri termed the pact as a move "for political gains" and said the Gujjars would weigh RAMVIR SINGH BIDHURI,
All India Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti chairperson Bainsla and chief minister Vasundhara Raje in gold if they managed to get the 5% reservation for Gujjars included in the 9th Schedule of the Constitution.
Bidhuri, who has been elected member of Delhi assembly, said his samiti gave the Rajasthan government six months for inclusion of 5% reservation in the 9th Schedule else a countrywide agitation would be launched from the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi from December 20.
“This 5% reservation is out of the limit of 50% reservation decided by the Supreme Court. There have been several agitations since 2006 and surprisingly the status is the same. Now the government has even added four more castes Rika, Baldiya, Labana and Gadoliya to the list of Special Backward Classes which meant the 5% reservation for eight castes including Gujjars," said Bidhuri fearing that the formula would also be challenged in the court and the community would get nothing.
He said the basic object of the community was to get included in the Scheduled Tribes list but they were promised inclusion in SBC and even that had not been fulfilled till now.
"The agreement that took place between government and Bainsla will provide no benefit to the Gujjar community and there will be more agitations in future," he said. Bidhuri said it was also promised in 2008 that cases filed against agitators would be withdrawn but not a single case had been withdrawn so far.
FOUR PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A BLOODY CLASH BETWEEN THE JATS AND THE DALITS OVER A LAND DISPUTE IN DANGAWAS ON MAY 14
AJMER: Meghwal community members remained on dharna outside the mortuary of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital here for the second day on Saturday raising demands in support of the Dangawas victims.
The protesters did not allow hospital authorities to perform the post-mortem examination on Ganga Ram Meghwal, a Dalit, who died at the hospital during treatment on Thursday.
Four people were killed in a bloody clash between the Jats and the Dalits over a land dispute in Nagaur’s Dangawas on May 14. Two more, including Ganga Ram, succumbed to their injuries later.
Meghwal leaders, while submitting an 18-point demand letter to the administration, have warned that they will not lift their dharna unless they get a written assurance on fulfilling their demands. “We will lift our dharna only after a written assurance from the government,” said Gopal Denwal, state president of All Meghwal Society.
Major demands of the community include compensation of `25 lakh each to the families of the five deceased Meghwals, `15 lakh to the injured, government job to one member, removal of policemen of Merta police station, CBI inquiry into the incident, arrest of all the culprits and cases against those policemen who failed in their duty under section 4 of SC/ST act.
According to the district administration and the police of Nagaur, almost all the “genuine demands” of the community have been met.
A CBI probe has been ordered and compensation of `5 lakh as per the law has been paid, said Vishal Rajan, collector, Nagaur.
Nagaur SP Raghvendra Suhasa said all the 20 policemen of Merta police station posted at the time of the incident had been removed.
Additional divisional commissioner (Ajmer) Yunus Khan Pathan said all the major demands of the Meghwals had been fulfilled and they should cooperate with the administration now by allowing the post-mortem on Ganga Ram’s body. Their other demands may be considered but they have to give some space to the government, he added.