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The Congress connected Tuesday (October 28, 2025) criticised the Centre implicit a purported Home Ministry notification proposing that retiring Agniveers beryllium absorbed into the country’s apical backstage information agencies. The enactment accused the authorities of betraying its committedness to supply pensionable jobs to Agniveers successful authorities services.
There was nary contiguous absorption from the authorities to the Congress’s claims.
Head of the Congress’s ex-servicemen department, Colonel (retired) Rohit Chaudhry, said the Narendra Modi authorities had “deceived” soldiers who served the nation. He claimed Union Home Minister Amit Shah had promised successful Haryana that Agniveers would beryllium fixed pensionable jobs aft their tenure with the equipped forces got over.
“If the authorities cannot reward those who performed good during Operation Sindoor, it should not mislead them,” Colonel Chaudhry said.
Referring to the purported notification, which has suggested that apical backstage information providers beryllium “sensitised to sorb Agniveers,” Colonel Chaudhry questioned wherefore they were being sent to backstage agencies alternatively of being offered stable, pensionable employment.
He reiterated Congress person Rahul Gandhi’s disapproval of the Agnipath scheme, saying it was enriching firm interests portion weakening nationalist security. “We cannot let Agniveers to go a backstage service warring wars astatine location oregon abroad,” Colonel Chaudhry said, adding that the Congress’s “Jai Jawan” run would proceed to rise the issue.
Calling the Agniveer strategy “disastrous” for the younker and the country’s defence forces, the Congress’ ex-servicemen section main demanded its contiguous withdrawal.
