Protesting Jats clear railway tracks after Allahabad HC order
March 20th, 2011 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
Lucknow/New Delhi, Mar. 20 (ANI): Jats protesting against the government over a demand for jobs reservation, have cleared the railway tracks near Kafoorpur in Uttar Pradesh’s J P Nagar District following an order from the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court.
The tracks were cleared of the agitators after 15 days of protests.
“The movement of trains on Lucknow-Delhi route is now restored. Everything is normal,” said Additional Divisional Railway Manager of the Moradabad division Ajay Kumar Singhal.
During the agitation, the Railways had to cancel the services of some 400 trains and divert as many or short-terminate about 100 trains in the Moradabad division.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the public inconvenience caused by the agitation, the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court had on Friday directed the Uttar Pradesh and Central Governments to clear the tracks as well as the national highways blocked by the protesters.
On Saturday, Jat leaders met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in New Delhi to find a solution to their jobs reservation demand and also for selection of students in educational institutes.
Jat leader Yashpal Malik said after the talks that the government had agreed that the community’s demands were genuine, but was not ready to commit to a deadline for the solution.
“We will go back and the Jat community will take a decision. We will decide whether the agitation will continue or not,” he said.
“We will respect the orders of the court, but we will also present our argument before it that if the government is not ready to resolve the issue by a deadline, then the Jat community will remain on the streets,” he added. (ANI)
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