Abe killing factors to attainable pitfalls of Agnipath scheme: TMC 

By PTI

KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress has cautioned the Central authorities in opposition to the Agnipath scheme, pointing to the truth that Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a short-service ex-serviceman.

The get together claimed that the killing underlined the attainable pitfalls of the controversial defence recruitment programme. The state BJP, nonetheless, rejected the apprehension saying no Indian ex-servicemen had ever been concerned in any such incident.

“The death of Abe at the hands of an ex-serviceman has only validated the fears of the people over the Agnipath scheme,” the TMC’s mouthpiece ‘Jago Bangla’ (Wake up, Bengal) stated in an article on Saturday.

The attacker misplaced his job within the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force after three years of service and he was not getting any pension, it claimed. Agniveers too wouldn’t get any pension after their four-year service interval is over, the article identified.

“The BJP is playing with fire in the name of the Agnipath scheme. We have seen what has happened in Japan. An ex-serviceman killed the former Prime Minister,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated on Sunday.

The BJP stated that such apprehensions are baseless. “We have never heard of any such incident in which an ex-serviceman of our country is involved. The TMC is just trying to politicise the matter,” state BJP spokesperson Samik Samik Bhattacharya stated.