3 Opp members of Parliamentary panel leave meeting as chairman refuses discussion on Agnipath scheme | India News,The Indian Express

The agenda of Friday’s meeting was consideration and adoption of the draft report on the action taken by the government on the observations and recommendations contained in the panel’s report on demands for grants of the Ministry of Defence for 2021-22 on ordnance factories, DRDO, Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA), and NCC.

Three Opposition members — two from the Congress and one from the BSP — of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence on Friday walked out of a meeting of the panel over the chairman’s refusal to discuss the Agnipath scheme for recruiting soldiers across the three services.

The panel is headed by BJP’s Jual Oram.

The agenda of Friday’s meeting was consideration and adoption of the draft report on the action taken by the government on the observations and recommendations contained in the panel’s report on demands for grants of the Ministry of Defence for 2021-22 on ordnance factories, DRDO, Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA), and NCC.

Besides, the meeting was to chalk out the future programme of the committee.

The move by the Congress’s K C Venugopal and Uttam Kumar Reddy, and BSP’s Danish Ali come at a time when the Opposition parties are engaged in a war of words with the government in Parliament over their demand for a discussion on the rise in prices and the hike in GST rates of essential commodities.

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/agnipath-scheme-opposition-members-meeting-discussion-8046032/


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