Gujjar community protest postponed to May 23

Jaipur, May 16: Gujjar Community protest for pressing their demand for 5 percent reservation in OBC has been resheduled from May 15 to May 23.

Senior Gujjar leader Himmat Singh said that the protest would now be staged from May 23, when thousands of community members would come together to decide the next course of action.

"This way, we have given the state government seven days' time to decide on our demand of granting 5 per cent reservation to Gujjars under the OBC (Other Backward Classes) quota," Singh said.

Gujjar leaders and the state government representatives reportedly held a long discussion from Monday evening till late night in the state capital.