Jats threaten to protest over their demand for OBC reservation

A group of Jat community members today said it would withdraw their support to the Congress party in the Lok Sabha polls if their demand for resevation under OBC category is not addressed and threatened to take to the streets in a nationwide agitation.
In a statement issued here today, Sanyukt Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti noted the support for Congress in the community has fallen and it was reflected in the fact that not a single Jat candidate was able to retain their seat in Delhi Assembly elections.
It said the community members would hoist black flags during Republic Day ceremony and block roads leading to the international airport to put pressure on the Congress government at the Centre if their demands were not met.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had written a letter to the Group of Ministers, constituted to look into the community's demand for OBC reservation, but nothing much happened on the lines as Code of Conduct was in force due to Assembly elections, the statement said.
"Now the election process is over and the government can easily extend the OBC reservation to Jats... Jats have decided that if the Congress government does not consider the OBC reservation, they will enblock go against Congress in 2014 election," its national general secretary Ran Singh Shokeen said.