Pressing for five per cent reservation, Gujjars on Sunday intensified their agitation by blocking highways in parts of Rajasthan and threatening to expand it across the State as they alleged that the State government had failed to offer any concrete proposal to meet their demand.
The community members started the renewed agitation on Thursday last by disrupting rail traffic.
On Sunday they blocked National Highway 11 at Dausa and a state highway in Sawaimadhopur district, a day after their talks ended in a deadlock.
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The Gujjars blocked the Agra-Jaipur highway at Sikandara in Dausa and Sawaimadhopur-Sheopur state highway in Khandar area of Sawaimadhopur district, police said.
Traffic on both the highways has been diverted to other roads and police have been deployed around the area to maintain law and order, police added.
“Several hundred people blocked the highway at Sikandara this [Sunday] morning while the Sawaimadhopur-Sheopur state highway is also blocked since Saturday night,” they said.
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“We are intensifying the agitation after the government failed to offer any concrete plan to provide the community five per cent reservation under the legal limit of 50 per cent.
“Similar agitations would also be launched in other parts of the State if the government does not fulfil our demand,” Himmat Singh, spokesperson of the Gujjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti told PTI.
He said Saturday’s meeting with three ministers in Bharatpur’s Bayana ended inconclusively and there was no fresh proposal from the government so far.
The stir was launched on Thursday in Bharatpur with community members blocking the Delhi-Mumbai rail tracks in Pilukapura, affecting train services.