Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar on Wednesday announced that the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas that was to be held here on March 9 has been cancelled following the Jat quota stir that led to widespread violence in the State.
Hundreds of Non-Resident Indians (NRI), specially from Haryana, had registered themselves for the event. Khattar said that the State had witnessed "unhappy stories and we cannot go forward comfortably with events like an NRI summit though it was a dream event. We will plan it for some other time”.
He said the cultural programmes scheduled to be presented during the Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit on March 7-8 had also been cancelled. Khattar, however, said the two-day business meet, focused on attracting investment, would be held as per schedule from March 7-8. The Jat protests across Haryana, which crippled road and rail traffic in much of northern India and also caused a water crisis in Delhi, had left 30 people dead and more than 200 injured.
Properties, business establishments, factories and vehicles belonging to non-Jats were looted and torched at several places in the State.