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                      After the gap of one year the gujjar community has hit the headlines once again. They are demanding the status of Schedule Tribe (ST) for the community and have declined to accept anything less than that. Under the name of Gujjar Arakshan Sang harsh Samiti  the community have blocked the road and railway traffic thus bringing the state to a standstill. An incident of police firing, in which 12 persons died further, enraged the rath of the community. Thousands of gujjars with their leader, Kirori Singh Bainsla, havebeen agitating with the dead bodied on the railway tracks in KARWADI since 25 of May.

                    In 2003 during the election campaign for the  Rajasthan assembly the BJP under the leadership of Vasundhara Raje had promised ST status  for the gujjar community but the promise remained on papers .Bainsla formed the Gujjar Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti and the agitation began on May 29,2007.Soon the agitation crossed  the state boundaries and expanded to some parts of India. The agitation ended within a week   when Bainsla convinced by the Raje government went to Jaipur for talks and there was a compromise between the government and him some community people blamed him of selling out the agitation.

                 But this time he has forced even the national government to examine the community demand for ST status and nothing less than that is acceptable to them. He has claimed having the support of politicians including Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Sharad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan to his cause.

This whole controversy is not the agitation of one community but is a struggle of a section of the society that has been deprived of its due status economically and socialy.Some political forces may be working behind the scene but they cannot remain unnerved. After independence every political party followed the policies that most suited its interests. Instead of providing basic infrastructure like education etc, to the poor sections of the society they further divided the Indian people by launching new economic policies like reservation. India has changed a lot after independence. The reservation policy was made and was applicable only on the public sector. With the emergence of private sector the reservation policy has lost its importance. This reservation policy has to a lot extent deprived some people of the due reward for their abilities.

                          The private sector has never compromised to the reservation policy. We have some examples of some leaders asking the private sector to follow the reservation policy that never happened and was declined even publically. This whole controversy has arisen because of some vested political interests and is being fueled by some political vested interests. Poor people are going to get nothing because without education and other personality developing facilities reservation in itself is nothing. Deals will be done on papers and the coming generations will have to face the results.