Jaipur, June 2
In the first breakthrough in the 11-day deadlock between the Rajasthan government and Gujjar protesters, the post-mortem on bodies of most of those killed in police firing on May 23 and 24 was conducted at the protest site today. This is probably for the first time in the history of this country that a state government has allowed the post-mortem on agitation victims at the site of the protests.
However, there is an increasing possibility of an Army-police crackdown on the Gujjar protesters, who are camping in thousands on the railway line at Pilupura.
Sensing the danger, Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla, who is at Pilupura, has asked his supporters to remain at the protest site and not leave after they get the bodies after post-mortem.
Bainsla had asked all Gujjar ministers and MLAs in the BJP government to resign. He said the resignations should be given by 6 pm today, failing which they would be excommunicated.
Bharatpur MP Vishvender Singh, who met Bainsla yesterday, had suggested this to Bainsla. Meanwhile, the resignation letter given by Vishvendra Singh’s wife Divya Singh, who is also an MLA, was sent to Bainsla through Vijay Bansal, MLA from Bharatpur. The MLA, however, was not allowed to go to the protest site.
The post-mortem of the 16 bodies at Pilupura began around 3.30 pm and ended by 7 pm. The bodies were handed over to the kin of the victims. The post-mortem was to begin at 6 am this morning, but Bainsla said the post-mortem here would not be allowed till the government sent the 14 bodies lying at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital here to Sikandra for post-mortem.
His demand was met and when it became known that the bodies from the hospital had arrived at Sikandra, the process began. At Sikandra, the post-mortem of 19 bodies began at 6 pm and was continuing till the filing of the report. At Sawai Madhopur, where two bodies are with the protesters, the post-mortem have reportedly not been allowed by
Bainsla.
