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Jat leaders meet Sonia Gandhi

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: The national president of Akhil Bharatvarsheeya Jat Mahasabha, Chaudhary Virendra Singh, and 15 other Jaat leaders on Saturday met Congress president Sonia Gandhi. They extended their support to the Congress in the run-up to the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

According to Chaudhary Virendra Singh, the Jat leaders from various States in North India also put up their demands before the Congress president. These included allowing reservations for Jats at the Central level along the lines of reservation they have been given in Rajasthan.

They also demanded that they be entered into the category of Other Backward Classes in some of the other States.

It is claimed that Ms. Gandhi asked former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, in charge of the party affairs in Uttar Pradesh, to look into the matter.

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