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Accusing the Congress of adopting double standards on the Jat reservation issue,a section of the Jat community on Friday announced to oppose the party in the December 1 Assembly elections in Rajasthan.
Yashpal Malik,president of the All India Jat Reservation Agitation Committee,said the community plays dominant role in a number of Assembly segments in poll-bound Rajasthan,Madhya Pradesh and Delhi and its members will support a candidate who has the potential to defeat the Congress nominee.
“Rajasthan’s two districts of Dholpur and Bharatpur are still out of the Central quota list. It is a double standard. We agitated several times but our demands were not addressed. Now it is time for the community to give a fitting reply to the Congress,” Malik said at a press conference here.
He said the committee has dispatched ‘Jat Sandesh’ letter to all community members asking them to support a candidate who can defeat the Congress nominee.
“We want notification of reservation,not assurance,” he said,adding,”our focus is to defeat the Congress but if the party fields a Jat candidate,we will neither support him nor oppose him”.
“Jats have influence in around 130 Assembly seats in the three states and we are confident that our opposition will be a set back for the Congress,” he claimed.
