OROP decision half-hearted, half-baked and sans sincerity, says Amarinder
Sunday, 06/09/2015
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Chandigarh : Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha and former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday said that the ‘belated’ announcement of one rank one pension for the ex-servicemen by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre was ‘only half-hearted and half-baked attempt sans sincerity.’ He supported the reservations expressed by the ex-servicemen about the decision, saying if the government’s intentions were really sincere it should have addressed the issue reasonably while taking into consideration the long pending genuine demands of the veterans.
Amarinder questioned the logic behind denying OROP to those who seek voluntary retirement. “This is the most unreasonable clause”, he remarked, while asking, “why deny someone the OROP benefit when he is already eligible for the pension.” Former Punjab Chief Minister also supported the veterans’ demand for expanding the strength of the one man judicial commission, appointed for removing anomalies in the OROP, to five with three veterans as its members.
