Bajwa seeks President’s intervention
Friday, 28/08/2015
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Chandigarh : Punjab Congress chief Partap Singh Bajwa on Thursday pleaded for the intervention by President Pranab Mukherjee for the implementation of ‘One Rank One Pension’ (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should deliver or quit. In a letter to Mukherjee, 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 (PM) to make good on his oft-repeated promises and proud boasts so loudly trumpeted from the rooftops,” Bajwa said. “PM must deliver the goods or make way for someone better suited than him to take charge of the business of government,” he said. He appealed to the President to use his good offices as head of the Indian state and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces to get the Centre to implement OROP for the veterans of the defence services without any delay. Bajwa said the situation was now critical as several veterans have been peacefully taking part in the relay hunger strike being organised at Jantar Mantar as part of their struggle. He said people of the country were highly agitated especially after the totally insensitive attempt by the Delhi Police acting on the government’s orders to remove the veterans from the scene leading to their being manhandled. He expressed shock at the treatment meted out to the defenders of the nation saying this was utterly shameful.
PPCC chief appealed to the President to intervene before this “insensitive, uncaring government” allowed a casualty to take place. He lambasted the government for trying to take “refuge behind a smokescreen of technicalities and complications.” “In the volatile situation that prevailed on our frontiers, India and it’s people could not risk such a state of affairs brought about by a vision less, blinkered, unfeeling government that had failed to care about the promises,” he said.
