MAYYAR (HISAR): The agitating Jats on Monday extended their deadline for another 24 hours, after the meeting between their leaders and district administration officials remained inconclusive. They have, however, threatened to block rail traffic in the state if there is further delay in the decision to grant OBC status to them for quota in jobs.

As a precautionary measure, though, the railway authorities cancelled all trains on the Jind-Hisar route on Monday.

Dharampal Singh, the state president of

, led a delegation of

leaders in a meeting with Hisar deputy commissioner Amit Aggarwal, superintendent of police and other district officials at the guest house of Power Grid Corporation of India, near here. However, they extended the deadline for an all out stir after the administration sought more time to discuss their charter of five demands. Besides withdrawal of cases, Jats are demanding action against the then Hisar SP Subhash Yadav, who had ordered firing on protesting Jats on September 13, 2010, a place for raising a memorial for Sunil Sheoran, who had died in police firing, and commitment to include Jats in OBC list.

"The government has not fulfilled even a single demand. Since officials have sought time to discuss the matter with authorities, we have extended the deadline by 24 hours. But once this deadline is over, we shall start blocking all rail and road traffic," said Rambhagat Singh, president of Hisar unit of Jat Arakshan Sangharsh Samiti.

Nafe Singh of Binayan Khap, who too was present in the meeting added, "The DC was constantly in touch with the chief minister and discussed our demands."

The stir may have caused a great inconvenience to the railways as well as passengers, but the roadside vendors had a field day. They set stalls at Ramayan village near here, where the agitating members of the community had started camping early in the day.

Jats' demands

Withdrawal of criminal cases registered against them during violence at Mayyar and rail blockade

A place for raising a memorial in the name of Sunil Sheoran, who fell to a bullet in police firing in September 2010

Immediate arrest of then Hisar SP Subhash Yadav for murder, who allegedly ordered the firing

A timeframe for inclusion of Jats in the list of other backward classes (OBC) for reservation in educational institutions and recruitment in government jobs

Mayyar stir timeline

September 13, 2010: Sunil Sheoran of a village near Ladwa was killed in police firing in an agitation by Jats to press for their demand for OBC quota in jobs

January/February 2011: Jat leaders lay siege to railway tracks between Jind and Hisar for 26 days

January 2012: Acting on the direction of Punjab and Haryana high court, the Jind and Hisar police started serving notices to agitating men and women, who were identified on the basis of video clippings, still photographs clicked by cameramen hired by police and pictures appearing in press

February 19, 2012: Giving Haryana police a 24-hour deadline, Jat leaders ask the administration to withdraw criminal cases against agitators