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JAIPUR, SEPT. 12. In what is likely to further polarise caste groups ahead of approaching by-polls to two Assembly seats and local body elections, the issue of reservation to Jats once again reared its head in Rajasthan today. Thousands of Kumawat (potter) community members assembled at the Statue Circle here to press for trifurcation of the reserved category OBC list, saying Jats were cornering their share of jobs in the State. Community leaders claimed Jats were prosperous and better educated and were thus cornering a lion's share of the Government jobs reserved for OBC castes. ``We demand that the OBC list be trifurcated as per the recommendation of the State Other Backward Classes Commission,'' Rajasthan Kumhar-Kumawat Mahasabha president, R. C. Kumawat, said. He argued that the OBC list had been bifurcated or trifurcated in a number of States. A separate quota for Jats should be made so that the interests of those in the ``original OBC list'' were protected, he said. While Kumawats are traditionally BJP supporters, Jats in a number of constituencies are believed to have supported the BJP in the recent Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, when reservation agitations had politically polarised communities in the State. Today's rally was the first agitation in the State capital by a caste group on the reservation issue after the Lok Sabha polls. With by-elections to Behror and the Jat-dominated Merta Assembly constituencies next month and polls for local bodies in November, caste agitations on the reservation issue are expected to pick up again, political analysts believe. Two BJP MLAs as well as members of the BSP and other parties were among those seen in the Kumawat rally today. UNI
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