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Ahmedabad, Oct 4 (PTI) Patidar quota agitators in Gujarat have revived their demand for withdrawal of cases lodged during the 2015 stir and also called for a backwardness survey for the inclusion of the community in the Other Backward Classes category.
The group that spearheaded the stir, the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), now headed by Alpesh Kathiriya, had on Monday called a meeting at Gandhinagar, with some 100 members, including Dinesh Bambhania and Dharmik Malaviya, attending it.
After the meeting, Kathiriya told reporters PAAS would make a representation to the BJP government in Gujarat about these pending demands and wait for a reply till October 31, the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
"As many as 14 Patidar youths died during the quota agitation in 2015.
We want government jobs to a kin of each of the deceased.
The state government had promised to withdraw cases against agitators, but at least 250 cases are yet to be withdrawn," he said.