Team Herald
PANJIM: The Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) on Wednesday appealed to the Union government to immediately scrap the short-sighted Agnipath Policy and to ‘Stop destroying the future of India’s youth’.
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Speaking to reporters, GPCC spokesman Capt Viriato Fernandes said that the Agnipath scheme as conceptualised by the BJP government will certainly put an end to revered armed forces which showcases the fine qualities of loyalty and patriotism in the country. How can an absolutely indispensable institution like the nation’s armed forces be tampered with in this manner? Soldiers who serve the nation with their hearts, souls and very often their lives do not deserve this ‘Use and throw policy’.
The Agnipath Policy of recruiting youth at the age of 17 will amount to putting an abrupt full stop to their educational growth.
Capt Fernandes said that the Government of India must realise that the Indian nation does not operate on a `Hire and Fire’ policy like that of its capitalist friends. This is the Indian armed forces, an institution that has been held sacred by every right-thinking, patriotic and loyal citizen of the country. Soldiers cannot be permitted to descend to being ‘daily wage labourers’, he said.
