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Gujjar row: Sachin Pilot meets Rajnath Singh Onkar Singh in New Delhi | June 03, 2007 22:55 IST He is expected to brief Mrs Sonia Gandhi, president of the Indian National Congress, about the contents of the meeting. The entire agitation started when the Gujjar leadership and particularly Sachin Pilot said that under delimitation carried out by the election commission Dausa would become a reserved seat for Schedule Tribe and here he would not be able to contest unless Gujjars get ST status who constitute ten per cent of the India's population. Talking to newsmen, the young member of Parliament said that efforts are on to defuse the situation so that the people of the state are not put to inconvenience. In Jaipur a crucial meeting between Colonel K S Bainsla, who is spearheading the movement on the ground level, was expected to meet chief minister Vasaudhara Raje to sort out pratical difficulties. He had left Dausa in the afternoon and was expected to reach Jaipur by 7 pm. In an interview to a private news channel Colonel Bainsla appealed to his followers to remove the roadblocks so that traffic can be restored. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
