Industry and trade body Assocham on Monday made a strong plea with the Haryana government along with the central agencies to take effective pre-emptive steps to ensure that renewed Jat agitation does not disrupt normal life in the state and the neighbouring areas.
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has refused to vacate the stay granted by Manohar Lal Khattar-led government on its decision to grant reservation in jobs and educational institutions to Jats and five other communities.
The protesters staged dharnas in more than a dozen places, mainly in Rohtak and Hisar.
The government of Haryana has heightened security arrangements in the state, anticipating violence during the Jat agitation that restarted on Sunday.
“The police stations are stocked adequately equipped to dead with any kind of protest”, he said.
Paramilitary forces and the state police are maintaining a close vigil on national highways and railway tracks, which the protesters had blocked for several days during the earlier agitation. “We have chose to launch a campaign to throw the RSS- BJP out of villages in these states for not keeping its reservation promises made to Jats in Haryana”.
The Jat agitators were hugely disappointed when AIJASS president Yashpal Malik, who was supposed to address their rally on 6th June, failed to show up.
As part of the ban, 2G, 3G, 4G, Edge, GPRS and bulk SMS services were banned in the district, reports IANS.
A section of the community spearheaded by All India Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti will hold fresh protests in 15 places in the state. Further, Delhi Police has also chose to impose Section 144 in southwest, northwest and southeast Delhi as a precautionary measure.
In the first phase of the Jat agitation, violence was witnessed in and around Mukherjee Nagar and Najafgarh areas. At the time, affected districts included Rohtak, Sonipat and Jhajjar.
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As many as 30 persons were killed and 320 others injured in Haryana and property worth crores of rupees was destroyed during the agitation in February.
