Chandigarh: Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring today expressed his party’s solidarity with the protesting youth who are opposing the new recruitment policy in the defence forces.
“I urge the government of India to reconsider the move as there is no point in announcing a policy that alienates the same people for whom it is meant to be”, the PCC president said in a statement here today.
While appealing to the protesting youth to maintain peace, Warring said, they had every right to peacefully resist and protest against the new policy that will affect Punjab the worst.
“Punjabis join the defence forces with a sense of pride and they give everything for their country”, he said, while adding, “just putting them in the line of duty for four years and then throwing them out without any pension or other benefits is unfair, unjustified and unacceptable”.
The PCC president said, this was quite an ill conceived and ill advised decision on part of the government of India and has been apparently taken without studying the issue threadbare.
“The decision concerns the defence of the country and such issues should have been touched and dealt with more sensitively”, Warring observed, while asking the government of India to reconsider this policy without any delay and loss of life and property.
