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| ‘Agnipath’ killing aspirations of millions of youth who want to join armed forces: Javed Rana | | | 
Early Times Report
MENDHAR, June 20: Expressing great disappointment over the Central Government’s ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme, President Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) Pirpanjal, Javed Ahmed Rana demanded its ‘immediate’ withdrawal.
In a statement issued here today, the senior NC leader said that the Army recruitment scheme should be scrapped for the sake of the country’s security and sovereignty, and recruitment of the permanent soldiers, which did not take place in the past two years, should take place as usual.
“A professional army cannot grow with the contract-based soldiers.
The scheme is offering employment for only four years. These soldiers are meant to defend our security and sovereignty and make the ultimate sacrifices to protect us. Is this way to treat them?” Javed Rana said. “No assurance of permanent jobs? No employment after four years? Even if ‘Agniveers’ will be trained, but then they will be put back with no job. Where will they go?” he asked. The former MLA alleged that the scheme is “killing” the aspirations of millions of youth who want to join the armed forces and serve the nation. He asserted that 75 per cent of the youth who join the army through the Agnipath scheme would become unemployed at the end of the fourth year.
He questioned what would happen to the youth who finish a four-year career in the army and come out.
Demanding that the Union Government take complete responsibility for the protests taking place across the nation, Javed Rana said the NDA government has reduced the army from ‘one rank-one pension’ to ‘no rank-no pension.’
“The BJP government at the Centre has played with the lives of farmers with draconian farm laws and is now adversely affecting the soldiers with schemes like Agnipath,” he charged.
He stated that this is a scheme that is pushing national security and future of youth into danger.
The senior NC leader demanded that the Prime Minister should respond to these protests and also make his stand public to clear the doubts of the unemployed youth. He also conveyed his condolences to the youth who “died in the protests” at the Secunderabad Railway station on Friday and said the Centre should take complete responsibility for the death. |
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