Bureaucratic rule no substitute to popularly elected govt: NC
Zonal President National Conference and Former Minister Babu Ram Paul today said that the Centre Government should immediately roll back the anti-youth angipath scheme.
He was addressing gathering at Babu Fort in district Jammu Wednesday. He said that the National Conference is committed to fighting for the rights of Jammu and Kashmir. “Few forces are working to divide people on the communal and regional lines which will be given a befitting reply. The country is presently going through a state of crisis. The graph of inflation is constantly on rise, the prices of essential commodities are sky rocketing and still BJP is claiming good governance” he added.
“The roll out of Agnipath Scheme is a cruel joke with youth of the nation who have been craving for joining the army and particularly those having undergone written and physical tests prior to the harsh ‘no recruitment’ move unleashed two years ago”, Babu Rampaul said while interacting with the prominent inhabitants of Babu Fort.
The Former Minister questioned the rationale behind the scheme, envisaging recruitment for four years on contractual basis with compulsory retirement for three fourths of the recruits without gratuity or pension benefits. He said the youth have genuine apprehensions about their careers being jeopardized by such measures which raise questions and doubts in their minds. He described such moves as desperate acts of diverting attention as the BJP government has failed in generating employment and providing ‘two crores’ of jobs every year promised in successive elections since 2014. He said that the best recourse available to the government is to roll back the Agnipath Scheme in the larger interest of the nation and the youth. Other leaders of NC also criticised BJP government and Bureaucracy.
