Congress to succeed in out to 35 to 40 lakh Agniveer aspirants and their households
The primary batch of troopers recruited by Indian Military beneath the Agniveer scheme march throughout their commencement parade in Bengaluru, on Aug. 4, 2023. File picture for illustration
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Promising a rollback of the Agnipath scheme, the Congress is planning to succeed in out to 35-40 lakh younger women and men who, on common, seem for recruitment rallies annually as a part of the ‘Jai jawan’ marketing campaign.
Below Agnipath, women and men within the age group of 17.5 to 21 years are recruited for Military, Navy and Air Drive for a four-year interval. No more than 25% of the full energy of the retiring batch is chosen for the everlasting cadre.
“Every year, 35-40 lakh personnel seem for the recruitment rallies. However because the Agniveer scheme has been launched, this quantity has drastically lowered. In 2023-24, solely 10 lakh individuals appeared for the rally. It clearly reveals the simmering discontent and a sense of betrayal,” a supply in Congress mentioned.
On January 31, throughout the course of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi met a bunch of aspiring recruits in Bihar. The Congress uploaded a brief video of the interplay, the place Mr. Gandhi assured that, if his get together got here to energy, they might press for a rollback of the scheme, and if not, then no less than guarantee Agniveers acquired the identical advantages because the everlasting cadres, which is presently denied.
The marketing campaign will run in three phases. Within the first section, Congress staff are to succeed in the households of younger aspirants and of retired defence personnel, and those that are deployed as Agniveer, with a nyay patra (an assurance paper) stating that the scheme can be reviewed. The opposite promise is for the 1.5 lakh youth who, throughout the course of 2019-2020, cleared the recruitment examination, however weren’t commissioned because the COVID-19 pandemic had hit.
“The vast majority of them weren’t given any cogent motive as to why they weren’t being commissioned, however a few of them have been instructed they’re now over-age,” the supply added.
The following phases will contain a day-long dharna on the Shahid Chowks (martyrs’ sq.) in villages, and a padayatra on the district headquarters.
Whereas the get together insists that this outreach is just not geared toward electoral beneficial properties alone, by Congress’s personal estimates, the scheme will adversely influence youth in no less than 120 Lok Sabha constituencies, and subsequently may assist them goal first-time voters, who’ve been steadfast supporters of the Modi authorities.
