With Jat agitation going on in various parts of the State, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Tuesday convened an emergency meeting to review the law and order situation and chalk out a strategy to deal with it.
After reviewing the situation, the Chief Minister Manohar lal urged the Jat protesters to call off their agitation. He has also invited those agitating to press the demand for reservation for the Jat community in the state for talks at his residence on Wednesday.
Finance Minister, Capt Abhimanyu, while interacting with mediapersons here said that the State Government is ready to discuss the matter and has already filed a review petition on this issue in the Supreme Court.
Haryana has about 2.5 crore people belonging to various communities and the State Government belonged to all of them. In a democratic set-up, every problem could be resolved through dialogue. Capt Abhimanyu said. He said that the Chief Minister had already constituted a committee headed by the Chief Secretary to look into this matter. The committee which has been told to submit its report at the earliest is making efforts to explore all possibilities so that the benefits of reservation could be provided to special backward classes to ensure social and economic justice.
The Minister expressed the hope that the talks would lead to a positive outcome. The Chief Minister has invited all organisations, committees and Khap representatives involved in this matter for talks through concerned deputy commissioners, he added. On February 9, the State Government had formed a committee comprising Chief Secretary D S Dhesi, Principal Secretary, Welfare of Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes TC Gupta, Principal Secretary (Industries) Devender Singh and a representative from the office of the Haryana Advocate General to examine the Jat reservation issue in detail.