Gehlot invites Bainsla for talks on Gujjar reservation issue

August 8th, 2009 AJMER - In an attempt to attract more customers to his shop, a coconut vendor in Ajmer has derived a unique formula. To boost sales during the holy month of Sharavan, Avatar Singh, a coconut vendor named his coconuts after two popular leaders of the state viz.

July 31st, 2009 JHAJJAR - Tension is prevaling in Jhajjar district of Haryana as the family of a groom who married a girl of the same clan has refused to quit the village as ordered by the village council. The Gehlot family was asked to leave Dharana village after Ravinder Singh Gehlot, 24, married 20-year-old Shilpa Kadyan of Siwah village near Panipat, against the wishes of the village elders.

July 29th, 2009 JAIPUR - A delegation comprising State ministers and Gujjar leaders, representing the farmer community of Rajasthan, on Wednesday met the State Governor S.K. Singh to request his assent on the Reservation Bill relating to job quotas.

July 28th, 2009 JAIPUR - The talks between the Gujjar leaders and the State Government will begin here today. On Monday, Gujjar leader Kirodi Singh Bainsla agreed for talks with the government.

July 26th, 2009 JAIPUR - Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla on Sunday asked community members to congregating for a 'mahapanchayat' to stage a 24-hour sit-in to build pressure on the Rajasthan Government to get the pending ST reservation bill cleared. In the mahapanchayat which began at Penchla mod near Hindon city in Karuali district on Sunday afternoon, Bainsla, spearheading the agitation for the past three years, asked Gujjars to stay back overnight for a 'mahapadav'.

June 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khursheed has said that the government will prefer a smooth process for reservation of jobs for minorities in the private sector instead of pushing it down to anybody's throat. Talking to reporters here on Saturday, Khursheed said the government is proceeding with as much urgency as it can on the issue.

June 11th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior BJP functionary Vinay Katiyar said on Thursday that the Bill on women's reservation was not acceptable to him. He opposed the present structure of Women's Reservation Bill, saying that, if passed, it will benefit only a few.

May 17th, 2009 JAIPUR - Congress candidate and union minister Namonarain Meena defeated Gujjar leader K.S. Bainsla of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a margin of 317 votes in Rajasthan's Tonk-Sawai Madhopur seat Sunday but the BJP asked for recounting of votes, a poll official said.

May 17th, 2009 JAIPUR - The Congress has won 20 Lok Sabha seats from Rajasthan, as central minister Namonarain Meena defeated Gujjar leader K.S. Bainsla of the BJP from the Tonk-Sawai Madhopur constituency after a recount Sunday.

May 16th, 2009 JAIPUR - With the Congress winning in 17 and leading in three of Rajasthan's 25 Lok Sabha seats, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has emerged a stronger leader as he had spearheaded the party's campaign in the state. Acknowledged as the main architect of the Congress comeback in Rajasthan, Gehlot toured the state extensively and held hundreds of public meetings at various places.

May 16th, 2009 JAIPUR - The Congress seemed headed to sweep Rajasthan with the party bagging 13 seats and leading in another seven constituencies by late afternoon Saturday. In the 2004 elections, the Congress had managed to win only four seats of the state's 25 constituencies.

April 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday named Kirori Singh Bainsla, who spearheaded Gujjar community's violent campaign for the Scheduled Tribes (ST) status, as it's candidate from Sawai Madhopur-Tonk Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan. The party also nominated Ramkishore Meena (Dausa), Rao Rajender Singh (Jaipur Rural) and Dashrath Singh Shekhawat (Jhunjhunu), a BJP statement said.

April 11th, 2009 JAIPUR - Kirori Singh Bainsla, who spearheaded the Gujjar community's violent agitation over the last two years for being granted Scheduled Tribe status, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here Saturday. Bainsla arrived in this Rajasthan capital in the afternoon and went to the BJP's state office where he took formal membership of the party.

March 1st, 2009 JAIPUR - Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot expanded his cabinet Saturday by inducting 10 new ministers. The strength of the Gehlot ministry now stands at 23, which includes 13 cabinet and 10 state ministers.

January 2nd, 2009 JAIPUR - The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan won a vote of confidence in the state assembly Saturday. The Congress, falling short of the clear majority, had won 96 of the 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan and Governor S.K.