05-28-2008, 10:06 PM
<!--emo&:ind--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/india.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='india.gif' /><!--endemo--> Gujjar Mahasabha asks Bainsla to call off agitation
PTI | Jaipur
Posted online: May 28, 2008
A grouping of Gujjars in Rajasthan on Wednesday asked the community leader Kirori Singh Bainsla to call off the agitation for ST status and hold talks with the State Government to settle the issue.
Bhairon Singh Gujjar, President of the Rajasthan Pradesh Veer Gujjar Mahasabha, in a message to Bainsla, asked the agitating Gujjar leader not to "stoke the passion of the people, spread a caste war and become another Jarnail Singh Bhindaranwale."
Gujjar told Bainsla that if by retaining the bodies of those who were victims of violence "you could get the ST status for Gujjars, then I am prepared to sacrifice my body and you can take it."
He appleaed to Bainsla to hand over all the bodies under his possesion so that last rites of the innocent and poor killed in the violence could be performed with dignity.[COLOR=blue]
PTI | Jaipur
Posted online: May 28, 2008
A grouping of Gujjars in Rajasthan on Wednesday asked the community leader Kirori Singh Bainsla to call off the agitation for ST status and hold talks with the State Government to settle the issue.
Bhairon Singh Gujjar, President of the Rajasthan Pradesh Veer Gujjar Mahasabha, in a message to Bainsla, asked the agitating Gujjar leader not to "stoke the passion of the people, spread a caste war and become another Jarnail Singh Bhindaranwale."
Gujjar told Bainsla that if by retaining the bodies of those who were victims of violence "you could get the ST status for Gujjars, then I am prepared to sacrifice my body and you can take it."
He appleaed to Bainsla to hand over all the bodies under his possesion so that last rites of the innocent and poor killed in the violence could be performed with dignity.[COLOR=blue]