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Bainsla to attend Delhi rally today

JAIPUR: Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla on Friday agreed to address the Gujjar community’s “Swabhiman rally”, scheduled at the national Capital’s Ramlila grounds on Saturday. Col. Bainsla, whose leadership was challenged in the past by certain groups within the community here, conceded to join after organizers, including Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Nationalist Congress Party MLA from Delhi, personally coming here to invite him.

“The interest of the community is above everything. For my people and the country I am willing do any sacrifice,” Col. Bainsla said in the presence of Mr.Bhiduri and Sukbir Singh Jenapuria, national president of the Akhil Bharatiya Gujjar Sangarsh Samiti, the organizers of the Delhi rally which is expected to collect Gujjars in lakhs.

“There are no divisions in the Gujjar community,” Col. Bainsla, who was in jail for a fortnight after courting arrest on October 2, to press for the community’s demand for Scheduled Tribe status, said.

Talking to journalists Mr. Bidhuri said Col. Bainsla was the “supreme leader” of the Gujjar community and there was no dispute over his leadership.

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