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Games People Play: Congress Government and Gurjar Reservation

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Aahana Ashi
Games People Play: Congress Government and Gurjar Reservation

As the Gujjars have hit the streets again agitating for quotas, the state of Rajasthan has once again become a political theatre of the absurd helmed by the Congress government.

On February 08, 2019, when reporters asked the Congress Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to comment on the agitation, instead of clarifying and offering concrete solutions, he seemed to obfuscate and deflect the subject onto the Central government.

Notably just three days back, when reporters had asked Mr Gehlot on Gurjar reservation, Mr Gehlot avoided the question by passing the microphone to the Deputy CM Sachin Pilot who looked equally bewildered.

What followed was an even bizarre exchange between the top two functionaries of the state government about who should take that question.

In the end Pilot managed to weakly retrieve the situation by stuttering a few vague lines about commitment to the 5 percent reservation for Gurjars and removal of any legal hurdles that were there.

Mr Pilot then had also sought to shift the responsibility on the Central government alluding to the 10 percent reservation for General Category people.

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