Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 19: Opposing the Central Government's 'Agnipath' recruitment scheme, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and DDC Member Suchetgarh, Tarnjit Singh Tony today said that this scheme is against the spirit and prestige of the Indian Army.
In a statement issued here today, Tony said that the youth join the army with great difficulty and PM Modi would throw them out in four years, it is a betrayal. "The BJP led Government in the Centre has sold everything including the country's mines, coal, LIC, banks, roads, electricity, water, BPCL, airports, ports to a few capitalists, now they need security personnel to protect them" , he said.
The senior AAP leader said that youth must get a chance to serve the country not for four years but for the whole life. He said that the government should also give priority to those youth getting overage due to lack of recruitment in the army for the last two years. He said that there is no pension, no future salary, nor any job plan in this scheme.
The AAP leader said that the BJP government has miserably failed to tackle unemployment in the country.
He said that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not fulfilled his promise made with the youth of the country with regard to providing two crores jobs every year.
“Modi government was not serious in the matter of providing employment to unemployed youth, the Agnipath scheme is playing with their lives. The government has always been under suspicion in the matter of police recruitment and other government recruitments,” he said.
The senior AAP leader asked the Central dispensation why no recruitment rally has taken place in the last three years, asking the Union Government to apologise to the youth of the country. He asked the Central Government to stop playing with the sentiments as well as the future of the youth as unemployment in Jammu and Kashmir at its peak.
Tony also condemned the lathi-charge on youth in various places to mark their anguish against the aforesaid scheme.
He asked the youth to register their protests but without taking law into their own hands and do the processions peacefully. He asked the BJP Government in the Centre to immediately withdraw this scheme in the general interest of youth of the country and don’t push the youth to the point of no return. |
