JAIPUR: (AMN) The Gujjar agitation for five percent reservation in the government jobs in Rajasthan has badly affected normal life in the state as well as some bordering states. Rail and road transport and tourism industry have been worst effected. Train services on Delhi-Jaipur, Jaipur-Kota, Jaipur-Agra and Delhi-Mumbai section are badly hit, as the agitation entered the eighth day on Monday. Bandh in nine cities in Ajmer, Jhalawar and Boondi districts was observed in support of the agitation. In Ajmer the protestors blocked the Ajmer-Ahemdabad highway.
Meanwhile, the President of All India Gujjar Aarkshan Sangarh Samiti, Ram Vir Singh Vidhudi began his indefinite dharna in Jaipur. He is demanding reservation quota of OBCs be raised from 21 to 26 per cent and five per cent reservation be given to SBCs out of this.
Transport sector alone has suffered a loss of hundred crore. Railway had to refund one crore rupees during the last three days due to cancellation of journey tickets. Today normal life was also paralysed in nine cities and towns of Ajmer, Jhalawar and Boondi districts, as Gujjar protestors organised bandh there. Gujjar Leader Col. Kirodi Singh Bainsla along with his supporters is still sitting on railway tracks in Pilupura demanding immediate grant of reservation benefit to Gujjars.