Amid the Jat quota agitation, a high-powered committee set up by BJP on Tuesday met with Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. The committee weighed its options for providing reservation and agreed to them in principle.
Sources have said that the panel, headed by Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu, examined various socio-economic and legal aspects and also the position adopted by previous governments on the vexed issue of Jat reservation during the hour-long meeting.
Sources said the meeting discussed the course that the Jat quota agitation has taken in the last few years and sought to ascertain the socially and economically backward communities in the state. They also discussed how courts have reacted to the issue in the past.
BJP had on Sunday night announced the setting up of the committee to examine the quota demand. BJP MP Raj Kumar Saini, who was served a show-cause notice by his party on Saturday for making comments ‘opposing’ Jat reservation, today said he was “not opposing” Jat reservation but disapproved of the adoption of “pressure” tactic for the same.
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