Jat quota row: Haryana BJP core group meets today, CM Manohar Lal Khattar likely to attend

With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Haryana drawing flaks over the law-and-order failure due to the Jat agitation for job reservation, the core group of the party meets at Haryana Bhawan here on Friday. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar is also likely to attend the meeting.

Meanwhile, the Jat agitation has caused loss to public and private property, halting trade, industry and small business and transport. Moreover, the state has suffered a loss of around Rs 20,000 crore on account of burning and destroying of public and private property due to Jat stir.

Trade and industry loss is maximum in the worst affected areas of Rohtak, Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh, Hissar, Bhiwani, Jind, Gohana, Sonipat, Kaithal, Karnal and Panipat.

Several industries that had come up in the past few years, including that of Suzuki on the Delhi-Rohtak highway, have stopped production at its Gurgaon and Maneswar plants. Business hubs like Gurgaon which houses top multi-national companies with back-office operations in IT and IT services has been affected.