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At mahapanchayat in Rajasthan, call for Gujjar reservation, but disagreement over BJP govt response
June 09, 2025 6:47 am
On June 7, state MoS for Home, Jawahar Singh Bedam held a meeting with members of the Gujjar community in a hotel to convince them to call off the panchayat.
Rajasthan BJP leaders want party to include more Gujjar ministers, secure quota
January 28, 2025 3:32 pm
Vijay Bainsla, whose father Kirori Lal Bainsla was the face of the Gujjar quota stir, wants BJP govt to come through on promise to withdraw cases against the protesters.
Kirori Singh Bainsla: From an English teacher to Army jawan and PoW, to the leader of Gujjar quota agitation
April 01, 2022 11:44 am
In 2008, Bainsla had led a massive agitation for classification of the Gujjar community as Scheduled Tribes.
Ahead of Nov 1 Gujjar stir, internet suspended in parts of Rajasthan
October 31, 2020 1:34 am
The state government remains on high alert ahead of the November 1 protest, and has deployed additional central and state police forces in the region, apart from setting up pickets.
Fulfil demands or face stir from Nov 1: Gujjar leaders to Gehlot govt
October 18, 2020 7:49 am
The community has for long demanded reservation under the Most Backward Classes (MBC) category and 5-per cent reservation in ongoing recruitment for 15 services in the state.
Blockades continue as Gujjar quota stir enters 5th day
February 12, 2019 4:28 pm
The blockades on the Agra-Jaipur-Bikaner National Highway-11 in Dausa district, state highway in Nainwa of Bundi district, Malarna road in Sawai Madhopur and the Karauli-Hindaun road at Budla village in Karauli district continued from the previous day.
Gujjar leader Bainsla starts dharna on rail tracks in Rajasthan for quota
February 08, 2019 8:36 pm
Bainsla last month gave a 20-day "ultimatum" to the state government to clear its stand on reservation to the communities in government jobs and educational institutes, failing which he threatened of reviving the quota agitation.
Gujjars entitled to 21% reservation under OBC too: Rajasthan govt
July 03, 2018 8:00 am
The members of the Rajasthan Gurjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti held a meeting with the government on Sunday and had given an ultimatum till Monday evening to fulfil their demands.
Rajasthan: Bidhuri faction announces reservation quota stir from August 1
May 25, 2018 4:48 am
Bidhuri said that Rohini Commission’s report will be applicable for jobs under the Union government and that Rajasthan government should move on its own to extend five per cent reservation to Gujjars.
Gujjar agitation: Talks fail, High Court wants rail tracks cleared
May 28, 2015 12:47 am
Calling the agitation “totally undemocratic”, the High Court slammed authorities for allowing the situation to deteriorate.
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