-M K Shukla
THE Jats of Haryana, actively supported by
their cousins across the Yamuna river in western UP, are once again up in arms,
pressuring the State and central governments to grant them ‘backward status’.
They had similarly agitated in February 2016 despite the Supreme Court
nullifying on March 17, 2015, a notification for Jat reservation issued by the
dying regime of UPA2. The Supreme Court order said, “We set aside the
notification to implement the inclusion of Jats in the Central list of OBC.”
The order added, “Caste, though a prominent factor, can’t be the sole factor to
decide backwardness… Backwardness has to be social backwardness and not
educational or economic backwardness.”
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