The Narendra Modi government has put in a motion demanding the appointment of a chairperson and members of the National Commission for Backward Classes to look into the Jat quota demands. The job of this panel will be to conduct a survey and find out if Jat community’s demand for OBC status is justified or not. This step has taken a couple of days after Haryana minister Ram Bilas Sharma confirmed that a committee has been formed under the chairmanship of Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment, Krishan Kumar which will take an immediate action on the demands of Jats that were accepted by the Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.

This committee included Additional Advocate General Kuldip Tiwari, Inspector General of Police, Rohtak Range, Navdeep Singh Virk and lawyer SS Kharb, who will represent the Jat community, as members, confirmed Sharma. After the community decided to postpone its protest in the national capital, the central government has also asked Haryana government to initiate the process of revisiting the criminal cases registered against the protesting Jats during the February 2016 agitation that was also related to the quota demand.

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According to the Indian Express, a source said the Central government has assured that will consider putting the law in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution so as to reduce the chances of courts looking into the law. Another source from the Haryana government revealed that a lot of back-channel discussions were held with the protestors on Sunday, just a day before proposed march to Parliament by the protesters.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar also postponed Union Minister of State for Law P P Chaudhary’s Rajasthan trip to make him participate in talks with representatives of the Jats, including their leader Yashpal Malik. Understanding the seriousness of the matter, Chaudhary cancelled his trip and engaged in talks with prominent Jat leader of Haryana Birender Singh. They both went to Haryana Bhawan where the discussions lasted for almost six hours.