JAIPUR/AJMER: Rail and road site visitors within the state were affected after participants of the Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti, led by its patron Col Kirori Singh Bainsla, blocked railway tracks and highways over their call for for 5 in keeping with cent quota in state jobs and educational institutions.
Soon after the rail route was blocked, the state government constituted a three-member cupboard committee to begin a discussion with the agitators. "A three-member committee, comprising cabinet ministers Raghu Sharma, Vishwendra Singh and Bhanwar Lal, was formed to hold talks with the Gujjars," stated Rajiv Swaroop, further chief secretary (house). The state police also sounded an alert for several Gujjar-dominated districts, together with Dausa, Bharatpur and Ajmer.
The Gujjars in conjunction with four different communities, currently, are eligible for a one in keeping with cent dedicated quota below the Most Backward Classes (MBC) in conjunction with the advantages below the OBC quota. They were hard a separate 5 in keeping with cent quota for MBC.
Bainsla had known as a 'mahapanchayat' to press for his or her call for at Maksandpura in Sawai Madhopur on Friday. Hundreds of neighborhood participants had accumulated for the panchayat. Following a call by Bainsla for yet another agitation, neighborhood participants blocked the Delhi-Mumbai rail route by taking over the tracks at Malarna Dunga railway station.
21 trains diverted for easy operating on Del-Mum route
As a precautionary measure, the West Central Railways (WCR) has diverted 21 trains by means of Kota-Baran and Kota-Ujjain routes to ensure easy operating of trains on the Delhi-Mumbai rail route. One teach was cancelled and 4 have been short-terminated. By late Friday evening, Gujjars in different parts of the state had also began protests. In Ajmer, Gujjars jammed the National Highway 89 from Ajmer to Nagaur, which was later cleared by the police.
"We want five per cent separate quota for MBC. We will not move an inch. The state government must come to us for talks. We had set the deadline for today for the government to act, but it failed to do so. We are being forced to launch the agitation," stated recommend Shailendra Singh, general secretary of the samiti.
Bainsla, who had himself directed the neighborhood participants to dam the rail routes, claimed that he had appealed them to be "disciplined" and not "damage public property".
According to railway government, the Gujjar neighborhood participants reached the railway tracks at five.15pm on Friday blockading trains travelling on the busy Delhi-Mumbai route by means of Sawai Madhopur.
"As of now, four trains were partially terminated, including the Mathura-Sawai Madhopur passenger at Gangapur city railway station, Hazrat Nizamudhin-Kota Shatabadi express at Gangapur city, Ratlam to Mathura MEMU train at Gangapur city, Ratlam to Agra at Kota station. The only train that was cancelled so far was the Agra Fort-Ratlam," stated Priyanka Dixit, chief public relations officer, West Central Railways. Diversions from WCR resulted delays to several NWR trains on the Delhi-Jaipur route.
Soon after the rail route was blocked, the state government constituted a three-member cupboard committee to begin a discussion with the agitators. "A three-member committee, comprising cabinet ministers Raghu Sharma, Vishwendra Singh and Bhanwar Lal, was formed to hold talks with the Gujjars," stated Rajiv Swaroop, further chief secretary (house). The state police also sounded an alert for several Gujjar-dominated districts, together with Dausa, Bharatpur and Ajmer.
Members of Gujjar neighborhood sitting on railway monitor in Maksudanpura of Sawai Madhopur in protest as part of reserv… https://t.co/mmh7nXLUHJ
— ANI (@ANI) 1549682039000The Gujjars in conjunction with four different communities, currently, are eligible for a one in keeping with cent dedicated quota below the Most Backward Classes (MBC) in conjunction with the advantages below the OBC quota. They were hard a separate 5 in keeping with cent quota for MBC.
Bainsla had known as a 'mahapanchayat' to press for his or her call for at Maksandpura in Sawai Madhopur on Friday. Hundreds of neighborhood participants had accumulated for the panchayat. Following a call by Bainsla for yet another agitation, neighborhood participants blocked the Delhi-Mumbai rail route by taking over the tracks at Malarna Dunga railway station.
21 trains diverted for easy operating on Del-Mum route
As a precautionary measure, the West Central Railways (WCR) has diverted 21 trains by means of Kota-Baran and Kota-Ujjain routes to ensure easy operating of trains on the Delhi-Mumbai rail route. One teach was cancelled and 4 have been short-terminated. By late Friday evening, Gujjars in different parts of the state had also began protests. In Ajmer, Gujjars jammed the National Highway 89 from Ajmer to Nagaur, which was later cleared by the police.
"We want five per cent separate quota for MBC. We will not move an inch. The state government must come to us for talks. We had set the deadline for today for the government to act, but it failed to do so. We are being forced to launch the agitation," stated recommend Shailendra Singh, general secretary of the samiti.
Bainsla, who had himself directed the neighborhood participants to dam the rail routes, claimed that he had appealed them to be "disciplined" and not "damage public property".
According to railway government, the Gujjar neighborhood participants reached the railway tracks at five.15pm on Friday blockading trains travelling on the busy Delhi-Mumbai route by means of Sawai Madhopur.
"As of now, four trains were partially terminated, including the Mathura-Sawai Madhopur passenger at Gangapur city railway station, Hazrat Nizamudhin-Kota Shatabadi express at Gangapur city, Ratlam to Mathura MEMU train at Gangapur city, Ratlam to Agra at Kota station. The only train that was cancelled so far was the Agra Fort-Ratlam," stated Priyanka Dixit, chief public relations officer, West Central Railways. Diversions from WCR resulted delays to several NWR trains on the Delhi-Jaipur route.
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