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Gurugram: A quarter century after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee was able to garner support from the Jats by including them in the list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs), a lot of distance seems to have developed between the party and the community, if the results of the Lok Sabha polls are any indication...
The Jats have voted against the BJP in Rajasthan, Haryana and to an extent Uttar Pradesh, disturbing the partys calculations..
Dularam Saharan, political analyst, author and former chairman of the Rajasthan Sahitya Akademi, told ThePrint that the reason behind the anger of the Jats, or more appropriately farmers, towards the BJP was the kind of treatment they were getting under the Modi government...
Alleging that discrimination against the Jats had become common in Rajasthan, Saharan said that ever since the Modi government had come up with the three controversial farm laws, which had to be repealed in the face of protests by farmers, the BJP had a dislike for the farming community, the majority of whom are from Jat Sikh and Jat backgrounds...
Yashpal Malik, a Jat leader from western Uttar Pradesh who heads the Akhil Bhartiya Jat Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti, told ThePrint that the main reason Jats in Rajasthan, western Uttar Pradesh and Haryana were unhappy with the Modi government was the shabby treatment meted out to the agitating farmers in 2020-21, and then the governments apathy to protests by women wrestlers who wanted justice for alleged sexual harassment by a BJP MP...
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