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Gujjar women call off siege on Jaipur-Delhi tracks

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Jaipur, June 6 -- After five days of laying siege to a section of the crucial Jaipur-Delhi railway line, hundreds of agitating Gujjar women in Rajasthan's Dausa district relented and allowed the authorities to take over the tracks Friday evening.

The Gujjar community, agitating for the past fortnight to be included in the Scheduled Tribe category, are slated to hold talks with the state government very soon, official sources said here.

The women, who were squatting since Sunday on the railway line near Bandikui station in Dausa district severely affecting movement of trains on the Jaipur-Delhi sector, called off the ...

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