The nearly month-long agitation by members of the Gujjar community � demanding Scheduled Tribe status -- was called off by their leader Kirori Singh Bainsla on Thursday. The decision comes in the wake of the agreement finalised between the Rajasthan government and leaders of the Gujjar community on Wednesday.

The Rajasthan government had announced a five per cent reservation for Gujjars under a 'special, separate backward class' category.

The 27-day Gujjar agitation, which witnessed large-scale violence, claimed 43 lives in police firing in Rajasthan and Haryana.

Bainsla had expressed gratitude to Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and given her all the credit for ending the stalemate.
The Rajasthan government also announced a relief package for the Gujjar community including Rs 5 lakh cash ex gratia each to the next of the kin of those killed in police firing and violence.

The Gujjar delegation, in turn, had assured the state government that it would not raise any other demand and it would not support any other Gujjar faction's movement and agitation in future.

About 35 Gujjar leaders, four state ministers K L Gujjar, Nathu Singh Gujjar, L N Dave, S M Jat, state Bharatiya Janata Party president Om Prakash Mathur and senior party leader Ram Das Agarwal were signatories to the agreement between the two sides.