All India Jat Arakshn Sanghrash Samiti president Yashpal Malik today said Jats will hold a rally on May 10 at Jantar Mantar in Delhi to demand that the Centre give reservation to Jat community in Central government jobs.
"We will hold a rally at Delhi on May 10 in which we will be request the Centre to give jobs to Jats in central government departments," Malik said while addressing a rally here.
He further said Jat leaders will also demand release of Jat youths who have been "falsely" implicated in the cases during Jat agitation in February in Haryana.
"We will also raise the issue of release of innocent Jat youths who have been wrongly arrested by police and withdrawal of cases against them," he said.
"If our demands were not met, we shall against resort to agitation," he said.
Malik alleged that the government has not fulfilled the promises made to Jat leaders for release of youths and there is great resentment in the community over the arrest of "innocent" jat youths.
Yashpal Malik and other jat leaders later met Deputy Commissioner N.K.Solanki and SP O.P.Narwal and demanded withdrawal of police cases against the arrested jat youths.
On the assurance of DC and SP that no one will be arrested without proper probe, the protesting jats ended their nine day old dharna.
The jat rally was addressed by Ram Bhagat Malik,Karnail Singh and Azad Singh Lakda.
Despite the prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPc,
which bans assembly of five or more persons at public places, a convoy of tractor-trolleys and motorcycles passed through some sensitive areas today.
On being asked that a youth atop a heavy vehicle and part of protesters, was seen flaunting a gun in Rohtak yesterday, Jat leaders including Rohtash and Yashpal Malik today claimed that it was a "toy gun".
Addressing the protesters today, Abhay Chautala said that government wants to "delay the matter" by having formed a committee of officers to talk to Jats.
The INLD leader said that Chief Minister Khattar should himself come forward to resolve the issue.
During the fresh round of the agitation, the protesters have been staging dharnas at various places in the state amid elaborate security arrangements.
Security has been further strengthened in sensitive Rohtak district, officials said.
Last year, arsonists had also set fire to the Rohtak residence of Haryana's Finance Minister Abhimanyu.
In view of the fresh Jat stir, paramilitary forces have been deployed in sensitive areas, while the state police is maintaining a strict vigil.
The call for the fresh stir was given by certain Jat outfits, especially those owing allegiance to the body headed by Yashpal Malik.
Khattar had earlier said the government had accepted the demand of Jats of giving jobs to the next of kin of those who had lost their lives during the agitation last year.
As many as 30 people were killed and property worth crores of rupees was damaged at many places in Haryana during last year's Jat stir which had turned violent. However, this time the state has been put on maximum alert, the officials said.
Rohtak and some of its neighbouring districts, including Sonipat and Jhajjar, were the worst hit by the violence last year.
The Haryana government's decision to grant reservation to Jats and five other communities in jobs and educational institutions under the newly created Backward Class 'C' category was challenged last year after a PIL was filed in this regard before the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The PIL was filed by a Bhiwani resident, who challenged the constitutional validity of The Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Act, 2016, passed by the assembly on March 29 last year.
The Act provides 10 per cent quota in Class III and IV posts and educational institutions and six per cent quota in Class I and II posts to Jats, Jat Sikhs, Rors, Bishnois, Tyagis and Muslim Jats in Schedule-III.
