Jats get quota, Rahul doesn't get his way on ordinance

President Pranab Mukherjee’s reluctance to support its ordinance route forced the cabinet on Sunday to drop its plan to sidestep Parliament to enact anti-corruption laws being pushed by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The cabinet, which held a special meeting on the eve of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Myanmar visit, however, decided to include the Jat community in the Other Backward Castes (OBC) category for reservation in government jobs and higher education.

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