Trains Diverted, Buses Affected Amid Gujjar Quota Protest In Rajasthan
Some members of the Gujjar community have occupied railway tracks in Bharatpur, about 180 km from state capital Jaipur; they’re protesting to seek reservation in jobs and education, officials said.
Rail and road traffic has been disrupted as protests continue by members of the Gujjar community in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur. More than a dozen trains have been diverted on the Delhi-Mumbai Railway line and the state has temporarily discontinued its bus service on the Agra-Jaipur route as a precaution.
A few individuals from the Gujjar people group have involved railroad tracks in Bharatpur, around 180 km from state capital Jaipur; they’re fighting to look for reservation in occupations and training, authorities said.
“We will proceed with our tumult till our requests are met and a request in regards to it is given by the administration. We won’t engage anything short of that. Youth is jobless, 25,000 positions are stuck and no one is discussing it,” Gujjar pioneer Vijay Bainsla said on Sunday.
“Because of the Gujjar disturbance, the training development between Hindaun city (in Uttar Pradesh) and Bayana area (in Rajasthan) has been halted,” the Western Railways said in an announcement toward the beginning of today in a tweet, with a rundown of the influenced courses.
The Gujjar people group – fighting for reservation since 2007 – is supposed to be isolated into two groups – the Gujjar Reservation Committee drove by Himmat Singh Gurjar and the other gathering drove by Vijay Bainsla. The gathering drove by Himmat Singh Gujjar on Saturday concurred with the Rajasthan government’s bureau sub-council on 14 focuses following talks held more than seven hours.
In any case, the other gathering is as yet proceeding with the fights.
The people group has additionally been requesting for the build-up to be filled in the OBC reservation.
In any event threefold before, they’ve been given 5 percent reservations in an extraordinary class. In any case, since it crossed the as far as possible set by the Supreme Court, the high court has struck it down threefold.
The Rajasthan government on October 26, 2018, passed a bill that expanded the Other Backward Classes (OBC) portion from 21 percent to 26 percent. In December 2018, the state government-endorsed one percent booking for Gujjars and four Other Backward Classes. These people group are getting one percent separate reservation under the legitimate furthest reaches of 50% reservation implied for the most-in reverse class notwithstanding OBC reservation.
Fights proceed even as enormous social affairs stay restricted under government-ordered Covid rules.
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