The agitating Gujjar leaders said they will wait till June 8 evening to meet their demand of 5 per cent quota in government jobs and thereafter, the community members would announce the next step of the agitation. The Gujjars on Wednesday assembled at Chhan village under Swai Madhopur and said they were on indefinite sit-in agitation. “We will wait till 8 June evening,” said Gujjar leader, Caption Harprasad Tanwar.
The state government, meanwhile, appointed Justice I.S. Israni (Retd) to head OBC Commission. It is learnt that the newly-constituted commission will examine and make a way for reservation to the special backward classes, that included Gujjars as well rebaris and gadia lohars. The security has been beefed up in Swai Madhopur district and the policemen were asked to keep a vigil on railway tracks.The Gujjars chose Chhan village, 25 km from district HQs of Swai Madhopur, while the venue is not far from Delhi -Mumbai grand trunk rail route. “We have given enough time to the state government, but the government is passing time and seems not serious to resolve the issue,” said Gujjar leader, Col. K.S. Bainsla.
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Burma sets deadline for insurgents
MANOJ ANAND
Guwahati, June 7
The Burmese government has set the dead line of this week for Indian insurgent groups holed up largely in Taga area of Burma to vacate their territory or face the consequences. Disclosing that President of Burma Thein Sein has issued instruction to its army to drive out the Indian insurgents operating from their territory, soon after PM Manmohan Singh’s vis-it, security sources said that the deadline was going to lapse this week.
Security agencies keeping a close watch on developments in Burma said that a meeting of field commanders of Burmese Army was also convened in which a strategy to flush out the Indian rebels from their territory was discussed. Informing that Burmese Army was contemplating an operation on pattern of Bhutan operation, security sources said that more than 3000-armed rebels of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Manipur are holed up and waging a war against Northeastern states of India from Burma. Asserting that intercepts of insurgent leaders have also corroborated that warning of the Burmese Army has reached to the insurgent group leaders, security sources said that GOC 4 Corps Lt. Gen. Shakti Gurung who was in Burma for quite some time may be asked to coordinate the operations with its counterpart. Though, there was no official communication from Burma to Indian autho-rities, security sources said that lower rank officers of Burmese Army have also been asked to take over the effective control of its territory used by Indian insurgent groups.