At a time when violent protests over the Central government’s Agniveer scheme for short-term recruitment in the defence services continued to spread across Bihar, the ruling alliance’s Janata Dal-United (JD-U) on Thursday suggested that the government should “reconsider” the scheme.
Tagging the Prime Minister’s Office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, JD(U) leader and the party’s parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha tweeted in Hindi: “On the plan over the proposed change to [process of] recruitment in the armed forces, Air Force and naval force through the Agniveer and Agnipath schemes, the government should reconsider.”
The JD(U), which part of the ruling alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in both the State and the Centre has, of late, taking a different stance that of its ally on several issues, including anti-conversion law, caste-based census and population control.
