The Trinamool Congress on Friday criticised the Centre’s Agnipath recruitment scheme, calling it “anti-national” and demanding that or not it’s withdrawn instantly. The ruling occasion in West Bengal additionally charged that this was accomplished by the BJP to “win the 2024 Lok Sabha elections”.
“The BJP is embarking on these policies with a single aim: to win the 2024 Loksabha elections, by hook or by crook, the people can look after themselves! The AITUC urges the BJP-led Central Government to simply withdraw the Agnipath Scheme and not try to bulldoze it, for the sake of our people and our country,” the TMC stated in an announcement.
The Mamata Banerjee-led occasion additionally stated that the “scatterbrained” scheme has been rejected by defence consultants and retired navy commanders.
“There are others, retired military commanders, who know the military establishment inside out, who are flabbergasted at this scatterbrained Scheme. They have warned that on the one hand Agnipath will weaken the military establishment and on the other, endanger Society at large when Agniveers are let loose on the streets, unemployed and without pension,” the assertion added.
The ruling occasion in West Bengal additionally stated that the coverage choices by the Modi authorities since 2014, together with demonetisation, GST, the now-repealed farm legal guidelines, have made folks of the nation endure.
The remarks got here as violent protests towards the scheme intensified on the third day at the moment with Bihar turning into centerstage of the agitation. Over a dozen trains have been set ablaze within the state and a railway station was additionally vandalised. The agitators additionally vandalised the homes of Bihar Deputy CM Renu Devi and state BJP chief Sanjeev Jaiswal.
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