Union Home Minister Amit Shah has attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over an alleged row on the Government's Agniveer Scheme. This comes after days ago Rahul Gandhi had slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for "turning India's jawan into labourers".
Gandhi, speaking at an election rally in Haryana on May 22 said, "This is Modi's scheme, not the Army's scheme. The Army does not want it. This scheme has been framed by the PMO (Prime Minister's Office)." "When the INDIA bloc forms the government, we will chuck the Agniveer scheme in the dustbin, we will tear it up," he added.
The leader had further claimed that the Agniveer military recruitment scheme would be scrapped and thrown in the dustbin if the INDIA bloc came to power.
Responding to Gandhi's allegations on the Agniveer Scheme, Home Minister Amit Shah on May 25 said, "Rahul Gandhi has started a new tradition of making lies a topic of discussion. The biggest example of this is the Agniveer scheme. Rumours are spreading in the country that 75 per cent of Agniveers will not have a future after four years and their life will be wasted. BJP-ruled states have made provisions for 10 to 20 per cent reservation in their police forces for them and the central government’s paramilitary forces have given them 10 per cent reservation.”
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