Jat quota stir: Prakash Singh Committee report not gospel truth, says Anil Vij

Vij, a five-time BJP MLA from Ambala Cantt, said that the government has taken action wherever it deemed fit

Amid outburst from some of those named in the Prakash Singh Committee report on Jat violence, Haryana minister Anil Vij today said it was not a "gospel truth" but an "informative" report and not binding on the government.

"This is a 451-page report and we are studying each paragraph carefully. It is a report, it is not (holy) Gita that whatever Prakash Singh wrote, all of it has to be right or that those officers who have been found on the wrong foot are guilty," the minister said.

"May be, some officers are very good, their past record may be good. So, we will examine things carefully," he told reporters here when asked to comment on the probe report.

The five-time BJP MLA from Ambala Cantt said that the government has taken action wherever it deemed fit.

He also said that the Committee report was an "informative report" and not binding on the government.

"The Prakash Singh Committee report for us (the government) is only an informative report, which is that they (Committee) have probed and provided us with information. Even otherwise this report is not complete because the probe panel had three members, and out of three, two have not signed on the report," Vij, who has the reputation of even taking on his own government, said.

Notably, the Prakash Singh Committee report has indicted several top state police and civil officials for failing to control the riots in February this year that left 30 people dead. It identified about 90 officials who indulged in "deliberate negligence" when violence hit the state.

The report has received flak from some of those named by the panel.

In an unusual outburst, Deputy Commissioner of Jhajjar in Haryana Anita Yadav, who has been severely criticised by the Prakash Singh Committee, had yesterday slammed its report, terming it as a "bundle of lies".

BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini, who has been in the dock over his alleged anti-Jat rants, also hit out at the report and said that he would quit politics if it was proved that the violence was a result of his comments.