<p>The Congress party on Saturday appealed to Jat leaders to withdraw their agitation for reservation and not to “fall prey to the BJP’s politics of divide and rule”.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda appealed to Jat leaders to maintain peace and resolve the issue through talks.<br /><br />Hooda also announced that he would sit on a day-long hunger strike on Sunday to press for his appeal to the Jats to withdraw their agitation. <br /><br />He said he wanted to go to Rohtak but the state administration did not permit him<br /> However, Hooda refused to answer questions as to who was responsible for the deteriorating situation in the state. <br /><br />A curfew has been clamped in Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sonepat following violence and firing on Friday. <br /><br />Protesters torched a railway station in Jind while Army has been deployed in nine districts affected by the violence.<br /><br />“I am pained to say that while BJP-RSS seek to divide the nation on grounds of religion and region to carry forward their political agenda, a sinister attempt is being made to create bitter divisions of caste in Haryana,” Congress chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters.<br /><br />Surjewala also slammed BJP ministers, MPs and MLAs for making controversial and unnecessary statements which he claimed had led to tensions in the state.<br /></p>
<p>The Congress party on Saturday appealed to Jat leaders to withdraw their agitation for reservation and not to “fall prey to the BJP’s politics of divide and rule”.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda appealed to Jat leaders to maintain peace and resolve the issue through talks.<br /><br />Hooda also announced that he would sit on a day-long hunger strike on Sunday to press for his appeal to the Jats to withdraw their agitation. <br /><br />He said he wanted to go to Rohtak but the state administration did not permit him<br /> However, Hooda refused to answer questions as to who was responsible for the deteriorating situation in the state. <br /><br />A curfew has been clamped in Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sonepat following violence and firing on Friday. <br /><br />Protesters torched a railway station in Jind while Army has been deployed in nine districts affected by the violence.<br /><br />“I am pained to say that while BJP-RSS seek to divide the nation on grounds of religion and region to carry forward their political agenda, a sinister attempt is being made to create bitter divisions of caste in Haryana,” Congress chief spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters.<br /><br />Surjewala also slammed BJP ministers, MPs and MLAs for making controversial and unnecessary statements which he claimed had led to tensions in the state.<br /></p>
