Jat Protests

Jat protesters lift road blockades

Press Trust of India | Sunday March 11, 2012

The Jats, demanding quota in government jobs, seemed to have relented a bit on their stand with the protesters lifting their sit-ins on various roads, including Hisar-Delhi and Hisar-Chandigarh national highways.

Jats likely to intensify stir in Haryana

Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday March 10, 2012

Jats, who are seeking quotas in government jobs, are likely to intensify their agitation after the Haryana government refused to release nearly 100 leaders of the community who were arrested for violent protests.

Jat agitation intensifies, protesters serve ultimatum

NDTV Correspondent with PTI inputs | Friday March 9, 2012

The agitating Jats, demanding job quota for them, on Thursday, served an ultimatum asking Haryana government to unconditionally release by tomorrow all those who had been taken into custody during the movement.

Protester killed, Jat agitation intensifies in Hisar

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday March 7, 2012

Tension ran high in this Haryana district as members of the Jat community, seeking quotas in government jobs, blocked the national highway to Delhi and railway tracks on Wednesday, a day after a youth was killed in police firing.

Jat protesters withdraw blockade, train and road traffic to be normal

Press Trust of India | Saturday March 26, 2011

Train and road traffic, which has been affected in many parts of Northern India due to the Jat agitation, would become normal from today as the protesters have withdrawn their blockade.Governments of Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh conveyed to the Centre that in the wake of agreements with the ...

Jat agitation likely to end today

NDTV Correspondent | Saturday March 26, 2011

The? Jat agitation that has seen protesters blocking highways and train tracks, mainly in Haryana, for the last few weeks is expected to be called off today. ?Sources say All India Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti leaders met Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda late last night and t...

Jat agitation: 62-yr-old protester dies; travel deadlock continues

NDTV Correspondent | Thursday March 24, 2011

A 62-year-old Jat protester, who was on a fast, died in Fatehabad on Thursday. The delegation that had come to meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, raised angry slogans and later headed towards Fatehbad. They may decide their future course of action by Thursday evening.The ongoing Jat ...

Jat agitation: Centre to amend rules of Backward Caste Commission

NDTV Correspondent | Monday March 21, 2011

The government's Crisis Management Group (CMG) today reviewed the situation arising out of the continuous agitation by Jats for job quota and the steps being taken for smooth flow of trains and road traffic in north India.The Centre is also mulling changing rules to allow the National Commission for...

Haryana Jats to boycott Holi over job quota row

Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday March 16, 2011

In a bid to mount pressure on the government, Haryana Jat leaders announced on Wednesday that their community will boycott the Holi festival in the state March 20 and observe a "black day".Hundreds of Jat community members, including women, are since March 7 squatting on railway tracks and disruptin...

Jats want fresh probe in Mirchpur violence, block rail traffic

Press Trust of India | Sunday January 16, 2011

Railway traffic on the Jind-Jakhal section of the Delhi-Ferozepur route was disrupted after residents of Mirchpur village in adjoining Hisar district began an indefinite dharna on the railway tracks to demand a fresh probe into the killing of two Dalits in April last year, after which around 100 mem...

Jat protests flare up again; bank set on fire

Sidharth Pandey | Wednesday September 15, 2010

The situation across Haryana remains tense. Protesting Jats continued with blockades in parts of Hisar and nearby districts today. Many see the amnesty by the government as a sign of weakness, prompting a virtual free for all, with many protesters attacking and looting banks and private property as ...

Jat agitation has ended, claims Haryana govt

NDTV Correspondent | Tuesday September 14, 2010

Southern Haryana has been on edge. Two protesters were killed and dozens other injured in Hissar, when a protests by Jats in the city turned violent for a second day running. Jats are demanding reservation under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota in government jobs and educational institutes.Tod...

Delhi-Chandigarh Highway blocked at Ambala, 1 killed

Press Trust of India | Monday September 13, 2010

One person was killed and several others injured as police opened fire on protesters demanding quota for Jat community under OBC category who later went on a rampage, damaging vehicles and rail track and vandalising public property at Mayyar village on Monday.The activists belonging to 'Jat Aaraksha...

Delhi water supply restored after Jat protests end

NDTV Correspondent | Monday June 14, 2010

On a searing Monday, Delhi was prepared for the worst.? Water tankers were on stand-by as protestors warned that for the second day in a row, they would cut off the water supply from UP to Delhi.South and West Delhi were meant to be worst-affected.But by 11 am, came the welcome news that the pr...

Delhi: Water supply blocked by Jat protests

Press Trust of India | Monday June 14, 2010

A group of Jats demanding reservation in higher education and government jobs blocked water supply to the city from Upper Ganga canal in neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.