Jat body to take out 'brotherhood' rally at Rohtak on Aug 27

All India Jat Arakshan Sangarsh Samiti (AIJASS), which is spearheading the Jat quota stir, will take out a 'bhaichara' rally at Rohtak on August 27 to decide on the next course of action.
Accusing the BJP government in Haryana of not honouring the promises made to them, AIJASS president Yashpal Malik today said, "We will take out a 'bhaichara' (brotherhood) rally at Rohtak on August 27 where several khap members and those from other communities who are aggrieved by the High Court's stay order will be invited to decide on the next course of the agitation."
"We will discuss why the state government is not accepting our demands and how to go about the agitation," he said.

AIJASS, which had called off its protest in June, had given the state government time till August 31 to resolve the issues raised by them.
Release of "innocent youths" arrested during the February agitation, adequate compensation and job to the next of kin of those who lost their lives during the protest, sincere efforts on part of the state government to get the High Court's stay order on the quota granted to Jats and five other communities vacated and withdrawal of cases against protesters are some of the major demands of AIJASS.
Malik accused the state government of adopting a "lackadaisical approach" in getting the stay vacated by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. "There are deficiencies in the efforts of the state government in pursuing the matter in the court. Some officers are misleading the Chief Minister on the quota issue," he alleged.

Malik also accused the state government of delaying the notification on the "creamy layer" pertaining to reservation.

However, the Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana today notified the criteria for the exclusion of the "creamy layer" within the Backward Classes category as per the schedule appended to the Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institution) Act, 2016.
The Haryana government had granted a 10-per cent quota to Jats and five other communities in government jobs and educational institutions in the state by carving out the Backward Class 'C' category following the February protests.
However, it was stayed by the High Court in May.

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Meanwhile, Haryana BJP President Subhash Barala said the doors of the state government are always open for talks on the issue of Jat reservation.
The BJP government is serious about the demands of the Jat community and the matter has been strongly advocated in the court, he said.
The government has already made up its mind to get the law inserted in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution once the court gave favourable verdict, he said.
Barala, who visited the dharna site at Charkhi-Dadri with MLA Badhada, Sukhwinder Mandhi and District President, Dadri, Ram Kishan Sharma, said Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar had, at a meeting held at Gurugram on February 16, apprised the party workers about the state government's stand on the Jat agitation and directed them to visit dharna sites.

After meeting representatives of the Jat community at dharna site, Barala said after Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi, the BJP had granted reservation in Haryana whereas the previous governments never granted reservation to the community during the last one-and-a-half decade.
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had "intentionally" not followed the "right procedure" while granting reservation to the Jat community and left it half-baked so that the new government faced problems, he said.
But after formation of the BJP government in the state, a bill on Jat reservation was unanimously passed in the Vidhan Sabha, he said.
Barala said the state government would take decision to lawfully withdraw the cases registered during the jat reservation agitation last year.