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Jats started drifting away from BJP in Haryana after the violence during protests in 2016 demanding reservation for the community when many people died and several others faced FIRs and jail.
Hooda, Udit Raj, another Congress leader, CPM leader Brinda Karat, who was stopped from joining the stir by the wrestlers in January, were welcomed by the wrestlers, a day after they had sought support from all quarters.
The meeting lasted for about 40 minutes and is seen as a reach out gesture from the party to the members of G-23.
The former CM faces allegations of using his influence to allot a plot for Associated Journal Limited (AJL), the parent company of the National Herald newspaper.
A day earlier, Hooda had a closed-door meeting with top Congress leaders in New Delhi during which they tried to convince him not to take any hasty decision.
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