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Mayawati advises Jats to shift protests to Delhi
2011-03-14 19:40:00
Lucknow, March 14 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan
Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati Monday announced her support for
the ongoing Jat agitation for declaring the community a backward class
and urged the protesters to shift their demonstrations to the national
capital.
'We are in full support of the Jat community's demand for inclusion in
the list of backward castes, but that is something beyond the purview
or powers of any state government and it could be done only by the
central government,' Mayawati said in a statement issued here.
She urged the agitators to shift their demonstrations to New Delhi so
that their voice was heard by the ruling dispensation there.
Meanwhile, the nine-day-old agitation by the members of the Jat
community, who dominate large parts of western Uttar Pradesh, has hit
over 550 train services so far.
With the Mayawati administration and police looking the other way,
demonstrators have been blocking the important Delhi-Lucknow train
route. While a large number of trains have been diverted, a bigger
number of trains were cancelled on account of the sit-in demonstration
by Jat farmers squatting on the tracks.
At many places, the farmers had parked their tractors on the rail
tracks, from where railway authorities were unable to remove them in
absence of support from the state police.
'The state government is just looking the other way and all our
requests to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and director general of
police have fallen on deaf ears,' a senior official of Moradabad
railway division told IANS over telephone from Moradabad.
'Apart from affecting passenger train services in a big way, the
agitation had also disturbed freight movement, so much so that crucial
supply of coal to certain power installations was also disrupted,' he
added.
'The agitation has cost the railways dear and the estimated losses
already run into several crores of rupees,' the official said.
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