Amarinder to head All India Jat Maha Sabha
Monday, 13/05/2013
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Chandigarh : Former Punjab chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh was on Sunday unanimously appointed president of the All India Jat Maha Sabha.
The unanimous resolution to this effect was passed at the executive meeting of the Maha Sabha held in Shimla, said a Sabha release issued here, on Sunday evening.
Moving the resolution, secretary general of the Maha Sabha Yudhvir Singh said, it was the proud privilege of the community to elect Capt Amarinder as the president.
He said Capt Amarinder was one of the few icons of the community who was not only known across the country, but outside India as well.
He expressed confidence that under his leadership, the Maha Sabha would be able to successfully get implemented all the pending issues.
Delegates from several states and their respective presidents were present during the passage of the resolution.
The states included Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttrakhand.
Expressing his gratitude to the members of the Maha Sabha, Capt Amarinder said he felt privileged and honoured about being unanimously elected the president of the Maha Sabha.
He added that he had been associated with the Maha Sabha for last 30 years as its patron since 1980 when Capt Bhagwan Singh was its president.
Asserting that Jat Maha Sabha was an apolitical organisation with the sole agenda of reforming the community and fighting various social evils, he said, it had members subscribing to different political ideologies.
He stated that the Jat community should get the reservation under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category.
