Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said connected July 27 that the Agnipath recruitment scheme volition beryllium cancelled “as soon arsenic we travel to power”. The declaration comes a time aft Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced reservation for retired Agniveers successful the U.P. Police.
“As soon arsenic we travel to power, the short-term ‘Agniveer’ subject recruitment that compromises the information of the state and plays with the aboriginal of the soldiers volition beryllium cancelled wrong 24 hours. This is our request connected ‘Agniveer’. Old recruitment should beryllium reinstated,” wrote Mr. Yadav connected X (formerly Twitter).
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Mr. Adityanath announced connected July 26 that the State authorities would assistance weightage to retired Agniveers successful the State constabulary and the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC)
.While campaigning for the Lok Sabha election, Mr. Yadav had repeatedly vowed to scrap the Agnipath scheme, nether which youths are recruited successful the Army, Navy and the Air Force, mostly connected a four-year contractual basis. The recruits nether the strategy are known arsenic Agniveers.
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The Union Government unveiled the Agnipath strategy successful 2022. The strategy bypasses galore components specified arsenic agelong tenures, pension and different benefits contiguous successful the aged mode of recruitment.
