On March 18, senior
leaders of the Jat community met a Haryana delegation led by chief minister
Manohar Lal Khattar in Chandigarh on reservations for Jats in state government
jobs and institutes of higher education. Intense debates were going on at Jat
Bhavan in Rohtak’s Sector-1, 65 kilometres north-west of Delhi, headquarters of
the Jat agitation. The meeting was headed by Jat elders, and the terms of the
negotiations was being argued. The meeting started early and young men from
schoo