Gurjar protests intensify in Rajasthan

Members of the Gurjar group intensified their agitation in search of reservation in jobs and training in Rajasthan for the third straight day on Tuesday, disrupting each rail and street site visitors, even because the state authorities mentioned that its doorways had been open for talks with the agitating members.

Protesters related to the Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti — which started the motion for reservation in Bayana on Sunday saying the group comes beneath the Most Backward Class (MBC) — blocked the Delhi-Mumbai rail route, resulting in a number of trains being diverted. The Kota rail division officers mentioned 17 passenger trains and 25 items trains had been diverted.

On Monday, web companies had been suspended throughout Bharatpur and Karauli district, and in 9 tehsils of Jaipur districts.

Gurjar chief Kirori Singh Bainsla mentioned the agitation will proceed till their calls for are met. Speaking to information company ANI, Bainsla mentioned, “The government should accept our demands as early as possible.”

On Tuesday night, senior IAS officer Niraj Ok Pavan reached Bayana to carry talks with Bainsla.

Vijay Bainsla, Kirori Singh Bainsla’s son, mentioned they’re prepared to carry talks with any authorities authority. “However, the talks will take place only on the railway tracks and not in any room,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile, extra director common of police (regulation and order) Saurabh Srivastava mentioned extra forces have been deployed in Kota Rural, Tonk, Bundi and Jhalawar the place members of the Gurjar group tried to dam roads. The state authorities had earlier authorised the collectors of eight districts in japanese Rajasthan to make preventive detentions beneath the National Security Act to keep up regulation and order.

Addressing the Rajasthan meeting on Monday, well being minister Raghu Sharma mentioned the Congress authorities had given 2,491 jobs to Gurjar candidates up to now, whereas 1,356 posts had been reserved for them within the ongoing recruitment.

The state authorities had on October 26, 2018, handed a invoice that elevated the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota from 21% to 26%. In December 2018, it additionally authorized 1% reservation for Gurjars and 4 OBC teams.