The Trinamool Congress has cautioned the Central authorities towards 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 demise of Abe by the hands of an ex-serviceman has solely validated the fears of the folks over the Agnipath scheme," the TMC's mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla' (Get up, Bengal) mentioned in an article on Saturday.
The attacker misplaced his job within the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Drive 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 enjoying with hearth within the identify of Agnipath scheme…. We now have seen what has occurred in Japan. An ex-serviceman killed the previous Prime Minister," TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned on Sunday.
The BJP mentioned that such apprehensions are baseless.
"We now have by no means heard of any such incident during which an ex-serviceman of our nation is concerned. The TMC is simply attempting to politicise the matter," state BJP spokesperson Samik Samik Bhattacharya mentioned.
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