NEW DELHI, March 13 -- When Dushyant Chautala of the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) broke his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) on Tuesday, he became the third significant Jat leader to walk away from the national political hegemon in a week. Chautala's exit comes days after Rajasthan lawmaker Rahul Kaswan and Haryana's Brijendra Singh joined the Congress party. All three are from connected and influential Jat families. And all are young. Chautala is 35, Kaswan, 47 and Singh, 51.
There are other Jat leaders who haven't quit but aren't feeling particularly happy. For instance, two term MP and former Mumbai police commissioner Satya Pal Singh seems to have become collateral damage of the party's alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (...