The members of the community yesterday blocked the highways, roads and rail tracks in Rohtak-Jhajjar region.
Rail and road traffic was disrupted for a second day on Tuesday in Rohtak-Jhajjar region as the Jat community intensified their protest demanding Other Backward Class or OBC status even as Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar invited them for talks.
The community has been staging protest demanding reservation in government jobs and educational institutions under the OBC category. Men were seen squatting on roads and railway tracks disrupting traffic.
The members of the community yesterday blocked highways, roads and rail tracks in Rohtak-Jhajjar region. Protests were also held in some places in Sonipat district. The protesters had also blocked many roads leading to Delhi.
The protesters today also blocked the NH-10 passing through Sampla town in Rohtak district. Many trains passing through the region had to be cancelled or diverted through alternative routes, the officials said.
Additional police force has been sent to sites where the protesters had blocked highways and were squatting on rail tracks. The state government has asked the Centre for deployment of Rapid Action Force and BSF, official sources said.
State finance minister, Capt. Abhimanyu said, who is a prominent Jat leader said, "The Chief Minister has invited various factions who are spearheading the Jat agitation and others including Khap leaders who are connected with the stir for talks at his residence here tomorrow."
Abhimanyu said the BJP Government was all for talks with the Jat leaders with an "open mind".
Despite Mr Khattar's appeal to the protesters to end the protest, the agitating community members said they want government to take concrete steps to fulfill their demand.
"We do not want mere hollow promises and false assurances. We want the government to come out with a concrete action plan," said a Jat protester in Ismaila village in Rohtak district.
Several trucks were lined up along the roads in Rohtak district due to the blockade.
"I was proceeding from Ludhiana to Delhi via Rohtak with LPG cylinders, but I have been stranded for the past two days now. My truck is carrying heavy load which had to be delivered urgently, but there is no option," said a truck driver Shyam Singh.
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