Slamming the Punjab Government for not making recommendation to the Centre for reservation to Jats under the OBC category, former Chief Minister and All India Jat Mahasabha president Amarinder Singh on Monday said that the community in the State was deprived of the benefit.
Welcoming the Centre’s decision to grant reservation to Jats under the OBC category, Amarinder said that only those States which had presented their case to the Centre would be entitled to the benefit, and Punjab Govt failed to do so. Union Cabinet, a day before, approved the inclusion of Jat community in the Central list of OBCs for the States of Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, HP, MP, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, UP and the National Capital Territory of Delhi.