Reservation row: PM Modi takes stock of Jat protests

New Delhi/Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took stock of the situation in violence-hit Haryana even as the Manohar Lal Khattar-headed state limped back to normalcy following the Jat agitation for reservation.

Union home minister Rajnath Singh briefed the Prime Minister on the Haryana situation. Mr Khattar, who was heckled and shown black flags by a crowd when he visited Rohtak, the epicentre of Jat quota stir, apparently described the Jat reservation issue as “sensitive” during his meeting with the Union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu-headed high-powered committee in New Delhi.

The BJP committee is looking into the pros and cons of various options on the quota demand for the Jats in government jobs.

This committee has called BJP’s Kurukshetra MP Rajkumar Saini, an OBC, who is opposed to Jat reservation in his state and was issued a show cause notice for airing his views on the issue.

The ruling BJP in Haryana has assured the agitators that a bill in this regard would come up during the Assembly session beginning from March 17.