Jat quota violence

NEW DELHI (TIP): The CBI registered three cases on Thursday to probe incidents of violence and arson during the Jat quota agitation in Rohtak in February. This is the first instance of the agency formally […]

CHANDIGARH (TIP): In what is seen as a setback for the Khattar government in Haryana, the Punjab and Haryana High Court here on Thursday stayed the reservation granted by the state government to Jats and […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): More than 100 intelligence alerts were allegedly ignored by the Haryana government since June last year, leading to large-scale violence in February during a fortnight-long agitation by Jats seeking reservation in government […]

CHANDIGARH (TIP): The Haryana Assembly  passed the Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Bill, 2016 to provide reservation for Jats and four other communities in government jobs and education. Haryana […]

ROHTAK (TIP): Former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s close assistant Virender Singh, who was booked for sedition and criminal conspiracy on charges of inciting violence during the Jat agitation, was arrested on March 17, […]

CHANDIGARH (TIP): Days after allegations of women being molested during the Jat agitation, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked Haryana DGP and Chief Secretary to file a report in the matter. The High Court […]

ROHTAK (TIP):Jat protests have disrupted road and rail traffic with the worst hit being the Rohtak-Jhajjar, the epicentre of the protests, besides Bhiwani, Sonipat and Hisar. Trucks have been stranded near Rohtak bypass as the […]

Why Jats are protesting now? It’s a double whammy for them. The Punjab and Haryana high court on July 27 last year stayed the decision of the state government to grant 10 % quota to […]

NEW DELHI: (TIP): Compelled by electoral politics, the BJP-led NDA government has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court pleading for its nod to extend reservation to Jats in education and jobs under the […]

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Union Cabinet cleared the ordinance for Jat reservation in government jobs. The anti-graft ordinances, which were pushed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, were not passed after President Pranab Mukherjee reportedly expressed […]

ROHTAK (TIP): In the wake of Haryana government’s favourable disposition towards the backward classes commission recommendations, that 10% reservation be provided for Jats and four other castes ( Bishnois, Jat Sikhs, Rors and Tyagis) in […]