Cong to hold nationwide protests today against Agnipath, vendetta politics

Congress employees will hold “peaceable” protests throughout the nation on Monday against the “anti-youth” Agnipath scheme and the central authorities’s “vendetta politics” focusing on social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi, who’s being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate in a cash laundering case.

Taking to Twitter, Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh mentioned on Sunday, “Tomorrow lakhs of Congress employees throughout the nation will proceed peaceable protests against the anti-youth Agnipath scheme and against Modi authorities’s vendetta politics focusing on its MP Rahul Gandhi. A Congress delegation may also meet Rashtrapati within the night.”

A delegation of Congress leaders can also be seemingly to meet President Ram Nath Kovind today and submit a memorandum on the problem of entry of Delhi Police into their social gathering headquarters and the alleged misbehaviour with social gathering MPs throughout protests against Rahul Gandhi’s ED questioning.

The grand previous social gathering held a ‘satyagraha’ on Sunday at Jantar Mantar in solidarity with the youth protesting against Central Government’s Agnipath Recruitment Scheme.

Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to seem earlier than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday for the fourth spherical of questioning in a cash laundering case linked to the National Herald case

Regarding his questioning by ED on Monday, as per official sources, the Congress chief, a Z+ class protectee of the Central Reserve Police Force after the Union authorities withdrew the Gandhi household’s Special Protection Group cowl in 2019, was confronted with a number of paperwork collated by the ED as proof recovered to date within the case to get his model.

After the Agnipath scheme, which permits Indian youths to serve within the common cadre of the Armed Forces for a interval of 4 years, was introduced on June 14, protests erupted in varied states together with Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Haryana, Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Jharkhand and Assam. As the agitation intensified in some locations, protestors went on the rampage setting trains on fireplace, torching automobiles and damaging each personal and public properties.

A complete of 46,000 Agniveers shall be recruited this yr however a prime navy officer mentioned it is going to go up to 1.25 lakhs in close to future. The entry age for all new recruits within the Armed Forces has been fastened as 17.5 to 21 years of age.

However, following protests, the Central government introduced a rise within the higher age restrict for the recruitment of Agniveers from 21 years to 23 years for the recruitment cycle of 2022 because it has not been potential to undertake the recruitment over the last two years.

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