Captain, Bajwa hail decision on one-rank-one-pension
Wednesday, 26/09/2012
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Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh and party MP from Gurdaspur Partap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday welcomed the Centre’s decision to implement the one-rank-one-pension scheme for all the ex-servicemen in the country.
They expressed their gratitude to Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Defence Minister AK Anthony, “without their support it would not have been possible”.
In separate statements issued here, the former chief minister said, “It was a long pending demand of hundreds and thousands of ex-servicemen from across the country.” He said there are a number of ex-servicemen in Punjab who will benefit from this move of the central government.
Amarinder said he had personally taken up the case of the ex-servicemen for one-rank-one-pension with the central government, particularly the Prime Minister and the Defence Minister Anthony.
The one-rank-one-pension was also in the election manifesto of the Congress party, he said.
Bajwa strongly appealed to the Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi to favourably consider the other pending demands of serving soldiers andex-servicemen like non-functional upgradation, grade pay and a running pay band for Other
Ranks.
