Battle for Jat votes: RLD caught between rock & hard place

Rajnish Kori drives around in a motor-cycle with ‘Indian Army’ written on the number-plate. A chemistry lecturer in a college at Shamli, he is the youth wing chief of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in the district. We are sitting in a car at a petrol pump, as police vans drive past, doing rounds of the town, which witnessed violence through the week. “Tell us, what can we do? We are in trouble both ways,” says a remarkably candid Mr. Kori. “If we support Jats, Muslims will be angry.

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