The violence and destruction that we are seeing in Haryana caused by the agitating Jat's seems to be timed to perfection. The horrific violence that was unleashed has even taken the current government by surprise. And they use this as an explanation for such inept handling of the situation.
Jat's have been demanding reservation from quite a long time, but why are they violently agitating now? I kept pondering over the question when I came across this:
Further to this, the article also mentions how shops owned by Jat's have been spared and those of non-Jat's been looted and demolished. How they spared the CM's residence and attacked those of BJP minister's.
The overall damage that this agitation has caused is estimated to be around Rs. 34,000 crores. This figure seems right as along with the destruction of tangible (public property, shops, houses, etc), we should also estimate the intangible (loss in business due to curfew).
The ruling party in the state, BJP, could have shown a little more urgency in clamping this agitation down before it turned into a huge mess. Of course they had Jat reservation in their manifesto and now are finding themselves in a tight spot. Its an altogether different matter that the Supreme Court has already rejected the same when the previous government tried to include Jat's in the 27% OBC quota.
Another thing that the BJP government failed to do is to take this opportunity and nail congress party as chief instigator of violence in this country. People should know of this in some way as currently the media seems oblivious to this and are busy blaming our PM Modi.
Jat's have been demanding reservation from quite a long time, but why are they violently agitating now? I kept pondering over the question when I came across this:
Further to this, the article also mentions how shops owned by Jat's have been spared and those of non-Jat's been looted and demolished. How they spared the CM's residence and attacked those of BJP minister's.
The overall damage that this agitation has caused is estimated to be around Rs. 34,000 crores. This figure seems right as along with the destruction of tangible (public property, shops, houses, etc), we should also estimate the intangible (loss in business due to curfew).
The ruling party in the state, BJP, could have shown a little more urgency in clamping this agitation down before it turned into a huge mess. Of course they had Jat reservation in their manifesto and now are finding themselves in a tight spot. Its an altogether different matter that the Supreme Court has already rejected the same when the previous government tried to include Jat's in the 27% OBC quota.
Another thing that the BJP government failed to do is to take this opportunity and nail congress party as chief instigator of violence in this country. People should know of this in some way as currently the media seems oblivious to this and are busy blaming our PM Modi.
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