Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 1: All Jammu and Kashmir Jatt Sabha president and former minister, Manjit Singh said that the Jatt community should be granted political reservation in Jammu and Kashmir so that it can be represented in the Legislative Assembly.
“The Jatts were displaced from Chhamb and Mirpur (Pakistan-occupied J&K) during 1947; then in 1965 and 1971, these people were displaced again due to hostile situations along the India-Pakistan border,” he said.
Singh added that due to repeated displacement and the suffering of financial and human losses, members of the Jatt community have not had a stable life over the past seven decades. He said this situation has led to political instability for them, and they have remained unrepresented despite being a large community scattered across the Jammu region-from the International Border in Kathua district to the Line of Control in Poonch.
Under these circumstances, he said, the Jatts deserve political reservation so that they can be represented politically on the same pattern on which reservation has been granted to other communities in Jammu and Kashmir.
He was addressing a meeting at village Puro Bana in RS Pura. The meeting was organised by senior vice president of the Sabha and former minister Ch Garu Ram.
He also referred to the denial of Other Backward Classes (OBC) status benefits in Central Government jobs and professional educational institutions across the country.
He appealed that the Jatts of Jammu and Kashmir should receive OBC reservation benefits in recruitment and educational institutions at the Central Government level.
Former MP and Chief Patron Tarlok Singh Bajwa, Ch Gharu Ram, MLA Vikram Randhawa, DDC Suchetgarh T S Tony, Ch Jagar, Kamal Randhawa, Dwarka Choudhary, Manjit Jatt, Bachan Choudhary, and others also spoke on the occasion.
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