10 million in Delhi w/o water after upper caste sabotage canel angry with job quotas excluding them
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- The land-owning Jat community is relatively affluent and has traditionally been seen as upper caste.
- They are mainly based in Haryana and seven other states in northern India.
- Comprising 27% of the voters in Haryana and dominating a third of the 90 state assembly seats, they are a politically influential community. Seven of the 10 chief ministers in Haryana have been Jats.
- The Jats are currently listed as upper caste but the demonstrators have been demanding inclusion in caste quotas for jobs and education opportunities that have been available to lower castes since 1991.
- In March 2014 the Congress-led national government said it would re-categorise Jats as Other Backward Castes (OBC), opening the way to government job quotas.
- But India's Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that the Jats were not a backward community.
- As jobs have dried up in the private sector and farming incomes have declined, the community has demanded the reinstatement of their backward caste status to enable them to secure government jobs.
The Indians in the West always refuse to discuss about their caste system.
They are proud of their caste system but tell another story to the Westerners. ("We don't have that anymore. It's dead").
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