OROP: Bajwa urges Prez to step in
Friday, 28/08/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Seeking the intervention of President Pranab Mukherjee for early implementation of ‘one rank, one pension’ scheme, Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should deliver or quit.
In a letter to the President, the PPCC chief said: “Please give the benefit of your sage advice to the Prime Minister. The time for looking at figures, accounts and planning finances is before a decision is taken and not after. Now is the time for him to fulfil his oft-repeated promises.”
He appealed to the President to use his good office to get the government and the Prime Minister to implement the OROP scheme without any delay. Bajwa said the situation was now critical as thousands of veterans have been peacefully taking part in the relay hunger strike being organised at Jantar Mantar as part of their struggle. Four of them were now on fast-unto-death, he said.
