Accusing the Haryana government of misleading the Jat community on the issue of reservation and presenting wrong facts before the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Akhil Bharatiya Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti on Wednesday decided to intensify its agitation.
Road blockade
Referring to alleged detention of several workers in Hisar earlier this month while trying to boycott the official programme of State's Finance Minister Captain Abhimanyu, ABJASS national president Yashpal Malik, at a meeting in Rohtak, told the office-bearers and the district chiefs of the committee to be prepared to even block the roads if the government committed atrocities on the demonstrators.
Mr. Malik said the agitation, kicked-off in nine districts of the State a fortnight ago, would be intensified and all villages in these districts would remain on alert.
Reaching out
The Jat leader said the second phase of the agitation would be announced soon and the Samiti would also reach out to the people in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, where the elections are due later this year.
He said events have been planned in all districts of Haryana and also the Jat-dominated States to mark the martyrdom of Sunil Sheoran, who had died during reservation agitation on September 13, 2010.
Mr. Malik alleged that the Haryana government was delaying the issue of Jat reservation and also resorting to illegal methods to curb the peaceful agitation by the Samiti.
‘Govt. defaming Jats’
He also accused the BJP government of inciting violence during the reservation agitation in 2016 through its Ministers and MLAs to defame the Jat community.
