Rajasthan agrees to 4% special Gurjjar quota

The final announcement of the agreement will be made by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje tomorrow morning. She will make the “solution publicly known”. A senior Rajasthan BJP leader, part of the group representing the state government in talks, said that “the OBC and ST quotas might not be touched at all”.

Gurjjar leader K S Bainsla told The Indian Express: “The talks have been successful and a formal announcement will be made tomorrow morning. All I can say is that the Gurjjars have succeeded in getting a historical breakthrough.”

Earlier this morning, Vasundhara Raje held a meeting with her ministers at her residence. She stayed away from the meeting with Bainsla at the Officers Training Centre in the afternoon but it ended in a “favourable solution”. State representatives led by Ram Das Aggarwal decided to brief the CM at her residence and decide on some “debatable and controversial” points before announcing the “final solution”.

Delhi MLA Ramvir Singh Bidhuri said: “The talks have been very constructive and the government representatives very cooperative. We want a solution and and so do they. There is disagreement on just one point but we hope it will be sorted out as soon as possible”.

The “debatable point” is something that was “objectionable” to the Meenas who have been opposing the Gurjjar demand for ST status. Ram Kishore Meena, state Labour Minister, was called to the CM residence late in the evening. He had earlier led a group of Meena community MLAs to the CM and raised “objections” on the demands of the Gurjjars.