The Jat Reservation Agitation was a series of protests in February 2016 by Jat people of North India, especially those in the state of Haryana, which "paralyzed the State for 10 days. The protesters sought inclusion of their caste in the Other Backward Class (OBC) category, which would make them eligible for affirmative action benefits. Besides Haryana, the protests also spread to the neighboring states, such as Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and also the National Capital Region and now they are back again Post-BJP’S win in the Uttar Pradesh, including in Jat-dominated areas, it's believed to have weakened Haryana’s Jat agitation, though plans for the March 20 Delhi march are still on. The Jat leadership would aim at keeping the protests alive as its serves a political purpose towards the next Assembly election. The leaders of the agitation had repeatedly asked the community to “wait until March 11 for everything to become clear”, and had hardly expected that large numbers of Jats in western UP voted would vote for the BJP.
All India Jat Aarakashan Sangharash Samiti (AIJASS) Yashpal Malik, who is leading the current reservation agitation, is from the UP village, and he had given a call to his community to oppose the BJP not only in western UP but also in Punjab. While the SAD-BJP alliance did lose in Punjab, Malik’s call to Jats had little to do with the defeat.
After the AIJASS call for relaunching last year’s agitation, Haryana has been witnessing dharnas in 19 districts since January 29. Now BJP leaders hope that Malik won’t able to sustain the size of the support base.
Haryana Finance Minister Captain Abhimanyu, who is also from Jat community, On the ongoing Jat agitation, said,
“The government is ready for talks but a few persons don’t want the issue to be resolved.”
The All India Jat Aarakshan Sangarsh Samiti (AIJASS) has deferred its Delhi agitation for 15 days, but the Haryana government doesn't want to take any chances and has deployed more than 12,000 cops belonging to the Haryana Police and paramilitary forces on the four national highways — NH1 (Delhi-Sonepat), NH2 (Delhi-Faridabad), NH8 (Delhi-Gurgaon) and NH10 (Delhi-Bahadurgarh/Rohtak) — that connect Haryana with the national capital.
The Jat agitators are demanding the withdrawal of all cases lodged in connection with the February 2016 quota violence in Haryana apart from the reservation in central government as well as state government jobs.
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