Demands met, Jat group halts agitation
HT Correspondents
Chandigarh/Hissar, September 14, 2010First Published: 21:31 IST(14/9/2010)
Last Updated: 00:35 IST(15/9/2010)
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Tuesday evening
that the Akhil Bhartiya Jat Sangharsh Samiti (All India Jat Agitation
Committee) had suspended its agitation in the state. The outfit had
resorted to a violent agitation to press for reservation for Jats in
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jobs.
Hooda told mediapersons in Chandigarh that the committee had halted
the agitation after talks with state government officials. The
committee was given an assurance that the state would provide
financial compensation of R10 lakh to the family of the youth killed
in police firing on violent protestors on Monday.
Officials also promised to give one of the deceased protestor's family
members a job in the state government. "We have also registered a case
against the SP, as demanded by the victim's family,'' Hooda said.
The chief minister said the government would give financial assistance
to those injured in clashes with the police. Hooda said certain
miscreants had damaged and destroyed public property in the past 24
hours and that "the Samiti had nothing to do with it".
Regarding a job quota for Jats, Hooda said he had forwarded a
representation to the central government.
Earlier, the army was called in to quell violence in Mayyar village
and its adjoining areas in Hisar district. The places were also
brought under curfew following a violent agitation on Monday.
The protesters, who went on a rampage on Monday, had continued their
protest on Tuesday. A mob set on fire the SBI branch in Hisar
Cantonment in the morning. They also set ablaze a cotton mill, besides
torching two buses and damaging a petrol pump. Protesters set a
generator set on fire at the Uklana railway station and thrashed
security personnel who tried to stop them. They also looted several
trucks parked on the roadside.
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