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The Armed Forces on Sunday said they had no differences with the Government, amid reports that Defence Minister A K Antony had conveyed his unhappiness over their unprecedented refusal to implement the pay commission notification and got them around to accept the revised salaries temporarily.
8220;I just want to clarify that this talk of differences between the Armed Forces and the Government8230;I think that is not right,8221; Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor told reporters here after laying a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti at India Gate to mark Gunners Day.
8220;The fact that the Defence Ministry, Defence Minister and the Prime Minister are with us shows that he Antony is also part of the Government, as we are. So there are no differences. I think it has been played up a little incorrectly,8221; Kapoor said.
Giving defence personnel reasons to cheer before Diwali, the Government had on Saturday ordered release of their ad hoc arrears for the current year this week, even as the Government said the Armed Forces would submit fresh salary vouchers on Monday, paving the way for the 1.5 million personnel to take home the revised pay on October 1.
But the 8220;discriminatory8221; pay commission report would come under fresh scrutiny with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is abroad, setting up a high-level ministerial committee on Saturday to address their grievances.
