This is an archive article published on July 11, 2022

Abe killing points to possible pitfalls of Agnipath scheme: TMC

The BJP said that such apprehensions are baseless.

A protest against Agnipath scheme in Secunderabad last month. (Express file/photo)

2 min readKolkataJul 11, 2022 10:47 AM IST First published on: Jul 11, 2022 at 10:47 AM IST

The Trinamool Congress has cautioned the Central government against the Agnipath scheme, pointing to the fact that Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a short-service ex-serviceman.

The party claimed that the killing underlined the possible pitfalls of the controversial defence recruitment programme.

The state BJP, however, rejected the apprehension saying no Indian ex-servicemen had ever been involved in any such incident.

“The death of Abe at the hands of an ex-serviceman has only validated the fears of the people over the Agnipath scheme,” the TMC‘s mouthpiece ‘Jago Bangla’ (Wake up, Bengal) said in an article on Saturday.