In February 2016, widespread arson and violence took place in various parts of Haryana during the Jat reservation agitation. Properties worth over Rs 1,000 crore were destroyed in Rohtak city alone, where several automobile showrooms, other shops and business establishments of non-Jats were damaged and torched. Several hundred vehicles were also burnt.Consequently, former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda’s son and former MP Deepender Hooda lost the Lok Sabha election from Rohtak to BJP’s Arvind Kumar Sharma earlier this year. Now, in the run up to the assembly elections too, there is unease over the issue.While both the BJP and the Congress are hesitant to talk about the incident openly, as they fear antagonising either Jats or non-Jats, people who suffered losses during those ten days of madness are not likely to forget the episode soon. The Wire spoke to a number of people about how they view the 2016 agitation and the kind of impact it could have on the upcoming assembly elections.