New Delhi, May 26
The BJP, faced with four days of continuous
Gujjar agitation in its backyard Rajasthan, was desperately trying to
pass the ball into the court of the Central government led by rival
Congress party.
BJP spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said here today,
“The Centre should take some serious stand on this” (the demand of
the Gujjars for being included among the Scheduled Tribes for
reservation purposes). He said, “The Centre should also take a
positive response. The Centre and the state should jointly handle such
an explosive situation”.
Prasad’s remarks appeared like a
firefighting operation to soften the impact of its state Chief Minister
Vasundhra Raje’s warning to the Gujjar agitators of “dire
consequences.” This had led an outcry of protest against the Chief
Minister.
