Gujjar march toward jaipur, threaten to siege capital

Gujjar community members are inching towards Jaipur and threaten to lay siege to the desert state capital within the next few days. However, going by the dilly-dally approach of the government and also the rigid attitude of the community, the state seems to be heading for yet another impasse, despite the fact the Gujjar agitations in the past have witnessed loss of lives as well as property. However, under given circumstances, Gujjar community's latest demand of exclusive 5% quota, leaving aside their previous demand of scheduled tribe status, seems to be a remote possibility.
State government has already given special backward status to the community and accorded 5% quota and another 14% for the economically weaker sections. But it exceeded the 50% limit and now Rajasthan High Court has stayed its operations. As the quota given by the government has fallen in legal tangles, Gujjars have shifted from their previous strategy and now, they are seeking exclusive 50% quota by truncating the existing OBC category quota. Although Gujjars are listed in the OBC category, along with 67 other castes but they want specified and dedicated 5% quota for themselves, a demand that has put state government on a sticky wicket, mainly at a time when the quota given to the community is sub judice.
In 2007, the government of Andhra Pradesh had given 4% special reservation to Muslim community which was in legal tangles for quite some time. But a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices J M Panchal and Justice B S Chauhan, allowed the state to continue with it ad-interim, till the final verdict is pronounced by a constitution bench.