This Article is From Mar 16, 2013

Jats threaten to stop drinking water supply to Delhi, stir on reservation continues

Ghaziabad: All India Jat Reservation Committee (AIJRC) has threatened to cut off drinking water supply to Delhi by damaging the pipeline in Moradabad area of the district, even as their agitation for reservations in government jobs for their community entered 11th day today.

Senior Superintendent of Police Nitin Tewari said that strict action will be taken against those who try to disturb law and order situation in the area. PAC personnel and police have been deployed to tighten security near the water regulator, he added.

AIJRC general secretary Satyapal Chodhary said the government is neglecting their demands even as committee members have been agitating from past 10 days in Moradabad, Kafurpur, Hakimpur, Bulandshahr, Jalalpur, Iglas areas of the district demanding reservation for their community.

The committee today threatened to bust drinking water supply from Shamsher village pipeline in Moradabad area to Delhi in protest.

They also handed over a memorandum for the Prime Minister to the district chief demanding the passing of reservation bill in Rajya Sabha.

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