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Jats go on rampage in Hisar over quota
TNN, Sep 15, 2010, 03.05am IST
ROHTAK/CHANDIGARH: A day after a protester was killed in police
firing in Hisar on Jat community members demanding OBC quota in
government jobs, Haryana was on the boil on Tuesday with angry mobs
torching vehicles, business establishments and a police post.
Hisar bore the brunt, where curfew has been imposed in parts of the
city and the Army called in. Traffic on the Hisar- Delhi National
Highway 10 has been suspended.
In Chandigarh, CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while appealing to the Jat
community to end the stir, announced a compensation of Rs 10 lakh to
the family of the youth killed in police firing, job to a member of
his family and registration of a case against Subhash Yadav, who was
last night removed as superintendent of police, Hisar.
While Hooda claimed the stir has been called off, the All-India Jat
Sangharsh Samiti (AIJSS), spearheading the agitation, reiterated its
threat to disrupt the Commonwealth Games. Sit-ins and road blockades
were suspended till the 'teravi' (thirteenth day) ceremony of the
youth, who was killed on Monday, according to AIJSS spokesman Om
Prakash Mann. "Protests would resume if the Centre fails to announce a
quota for Jats by October 3," said Mann.
Tuesday's violence was sparked off when two protestors were killed
while trying to stop a goods train at Uklana railway station in Jind
district in the morning. The protestors tried to set the railway
station on fire. Soon, the agitation spread to Rohtak, Jind, Bhiwani,
Sirsa and Fatehabad with mobs blocking several roads connecting the
affected towns.
Violent protests began on Monday after the death of the Jat youth in
Hisar in the wake of a clash between Jats and police following a
public meeting called by AIJSS in Mayyar village to press for their
reservation demand.
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