The members also decided to apprise the Centre of the prevailing sentiments among the Jats and urge it to make an effort to end the deadlock at the earliest amid growing pressure from the community. Several BJP members at the meeting raised the issue of growing dissent and opposition against the party in Jat strongholds, specially after farmer leader Rakesh Tikait’s impassioned speech at Ghazipur border.
It was attended by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and state party president Om Prakash Dhankar. On Sunday, Haryana BJP’s core group held a meeting in Gurugram during which the matter was discussed, said party sources. So, party leaders have been told to meet retired defence personnel, professors, spiritual gurus to take their help in reaching out to the Jat community,” added the MP. After the (Rakesh) Tikait incident, more trouble is expected in Sonipat, Panipat, Rohtak. “BJP leaders have been told to meet khap panchayat leaders without informing them in advance and involve apolitical, social leaders too. “We have decided to involve our party’s Jat leaders and also those who have influence in khaps to meet their members and convince them because at many places, khaps have taken resolutions to boycott BJP leaders ,” said a BJP MP from Haryana, who didn’t want to be named. The BJP has already formed committees at every mandal in Haryana to talk to the khap leaders. The party has also asked to keep these meetings low-profile. New Delhi: With another Haryana BJP leader quitting over farm laws Sunday, the party is now readying a plan to tackle the growing dissent, particularly in the Jat-dominated districts of Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh.īJP leaders told ThePrint the party has asked its Jat community leaders and village panchayat leaders to meet khap members and involve them to defuse the crisis.