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India Jat protests: Curfews after caste violence flares India caste protests: Five dead as Haryana violence flares
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Indian authorities have imposed curfews and shoot-to-kill orders in a northern state after two days of violent protests over caste rights. At least five people have been killed in a second day of violence related to caste rights in the northern Indian state of Haryana, police say.
Three people have died and about 80 injured in the clashes involving the Jat community in Haryana state. Protesters in the towns of Rohtak and Jind set fire to police vehicles, public buildings and buses.
The demonstrators are mostly from the Jat community who are unhappy about India's caste quota system.
They say it puts them at a disadvantage in government jobs and at state-run educational institutes.
The Jats are currently listed as upper caste but the demonstrators want job quotas similar to those granted to lower castes.The Jats are currently listed as upper caste but the demonstrators want job quotas similar to those granted to lower castes.
The army has been deployed to restore order. Protesters again went on the rampage on Saturday despite a curfew and the deployment of the army which is reported to have opened fire on them in the Rohtak and Jhajjar districts.
Violence flared on Friday, with protesters in the town of Rohtak hurling rocks at security forces, blocking traffic, attacking vehicles and attempting to set the finance minister's home on fire. Demonstrations by Jats were also reported to have taken place in Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Overland transport links to Haryana have been brought to a halt by the protests.
One demonstrator was shot dead in clashes with police. The government of Haryana has meanwhile been urged by the central government to initiate talks with Jat leaders, NDTV reported.
The unrest continued on Saturday, with protesters torching the station master's office at a railway station. Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has already said that the government is ready to agree to the demands of the protesters "within the ambit of the constitution".
Talks with the local government have failed to quell their anger. Mr Khattar has urged the protesters to desist and appealed to the government to provide more troops in order to restore order.
"The protest will only end when government accepts our demands," Yashapal Malik, the president of a Jat organisation that is leading the protest, told the AFP news agency. Opposition parties have called for Mr Khattar's government to be sacked by the central government and for presidential rule to be imposed on the state.
India grants a proportion of its jobs and positions to people from the lower castes in a bid to end discrimination. On Friday protesters in Rohtak hurled rocks at security forces, while blocking traffic, attacking vehicles and attempting to set the finance minister's home on fire.
But Jat leaders say these quotas put them at a disadvantage in government jobs and state-run educational institutes.