Capt seeks OROP for ex-servicemen
Saturday, 30/05/2015
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Chandigarh : Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Capt Amarinder Singh today said no country in the world treated its ex-servicemen as badly as India did under the current BJP-led NDA regime.
Expressing solidarity with the ex-servicemen, he said he would participate in the rally proposed to be held next month to press for ‘one rank one pension’. “They have given their entire life to the nation and now it is the duty of the nation to pay them back,” he asserted.
Capt Amarinder said it was a betrayal of the ex-servicemen despite the previous UPA government already having approved the scheme. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has betrayed the nation again,” he said.
Amarinder disclosed that wrote to the Defence Minister before the Budget, seeking that the OROP be announced without any delay.
The former Chief minister said the Defence Minister had assured him that the modalities were being worked out and the issue would be settled soon.
“Now it has been about five months that nothing has been done in this regard,” he said.
Maintaining that not much money was involved in granting OROP to the ex-servicemen, he said providing Rs 9,100 crore for the welfare of our ex-servicemen was not much, considering they had given their life to the nation.
