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Hyderabad, June 18 (PMI): The Telangana Rashtra Samithi launched a scathing attack on the union government over the Agnipath scheme, saying that the scheme was designed by the Modi government only for introducing contract jobs in the armed forces.
Speaking to the media after taking part in several development and inaugural programmes in Balkonda Assembly segment of Nizamabad district on Saturday, Finance Minister T Harish Rao lambasted the union government for comprising the national security with the launch of Agnipath scheme and for making efforts to privatise the difence sector like other public sector units Vizag Steel Plant and Life Insurance Corporation (LIC).
Terming the violence protest against the Agnipath scheme and the death of a Telangana youth on Friday as an unfortunate, Harish Rao criticised the BJP leaders for passing on the blame to the TRS government over the Secunderabad incident and said that it was very shameful that BJP leaders are speaking such heinous language.
” Since the announcement of Agnipath scheme, thousands of youth in various States are taking to streets demanding a rollback of ‘contractualisation’ of jobs in the armed forces and violence protests are reported across the country. If the Secunderabad violence was a handiwork of the TRS government, the same principle should be applied to both Chief Ministers Yogi Adityanath and Nitish Kumar and they should be held responsible in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar States respectively where the violence protests are witnessed every day against the Agnipath scheme,” Harish Rao pointed out.
Meanwhile, speaking to the media in Karimnagar, Minister for Civil Supply Gangula Kamalakar accused the BJP leaders of linking the Secunderabad violence incident to the TRS and alleged that they are trying to pass on the blame on to the State government only for covering up the failure of the Modi government.
In Warangal, Minister Errabelli Dayakar Rao said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi must apologise to the nation and to the parents of Rakesh over the Agnipath scheme. “Modi is playing with the lives of lakhs of youths who are dreaming to join the armed forces with the introduction of the Agnipath. He must withdraw the scheme immediately,” Dayakar Rao demanded.
On the other hand, Minister for Forest Indrakaran Reddy demanded the Centre that the Agnipath scheme be withdrawn forth with.
Referring to the ongoing protests erupted in different parts of the country against the Agnipath scheme, the Minister said the fact is that 75 percent of recruitees under the scheme will be sent out after four years raised questions and suspicious.
Indrakaran Reddy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unilateral decisions and poor vision were destroying the nation and demanded that Modi give up his anti-people policies.
TRS MLA Balka Suman expressed regret over the death of a Telangana youth during the protest at Secunderabad railway station and alleged that Narendra Modi’s fascist policies are claiming the innocent lives of the youth. (PMI)
