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Relief package for Gujjar victims

JAIPUR: The agreement reached between Gujjar leaders and the Rajasthan Government provides a package to the victims of police firing in Pilupura in Bharatpur, Sikandra in Dausa and Kushalipura in Sawai Madhopur during the initial days of the strife, which lasted 27 days.

The relief package entails each family of the 38 victims (39th victim is a policeman killed in the mob fury) killed in police firing an ex gratia of Rs.5 lakh and a Government job to one of the members. The seriously injured persons will be given Rs. 1 lakh as financial assistance while the ones who sustained minor injuries will be eligible for Rs. 25, 000.

The Government has also agreed to initiate immediate action for the withdrawal of cases registered against the Gujjar community members during the agitation as per the interim directives of the Rajasthan High Court and on the basis of the affidavit submitted by the State’s Director General of Police before the Supreme Court.

The agreement takes a pledge from the Gujjar leadership to take back the agitation and also an assurance that hereafter “there would not be any need to talk to any other Gujjar group/organisation on this particular demand.” The agreement also says that the Gujjar Arakshan Sangarsh Samiti would oppose anyone raising such a demand in future.

The agreement, made available to the media in the form of joint press release, is signed by 35 Gujjar leaders who participated in the talks, including Kirori Singh Bainsla, Rambir Singh Bidhuri, Delhi MLA, Sukhbir Singh Jaunpuria, Haryana MLA, besides BJP national treasurer Ramdas Agarwal, party State president Omprakash Mathur, Ministers, Sanwarlal Jat, Laxminarayan Dave, Nathu Singh Gujjar and senior bureaucrats, S.N. Thanvi, Sunil Arora and Malavika Pawar.

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