Katihar (Bihar): Cooperative Minister of Bihar and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Surendra Yadav said in a big controversy on Thursday that the ‘Agniveer’ scheme will create an ‘army of eunuchs’. Talking to the media, he said, ‘I am telling this, exactly 8.5 years from today, the name of the country will be included in the army of eunuchs. The existing soldiers will retire after 8.5 years. And the training of these Agniveers will not even be complete.” “Why bring up this idea when our army is the strongest in the world? What kind of army will be ready in 4.5 years?” he added. He further claimed that no one would marry those who would retire as Agniveers at the age of 25-26.
“When he (Agnivar) is 25-26 years old, people will come with marriage proposals. What will they say? I am a retired soldier? Who will marry him?” They said. Surendra Yadav further said, “Whoever gave this idea should be hanged as he deserves no less punishment.”
Under the Agneepath scheme, announced on June 14 last year, the three services are recruiting youths between 17½ years and 21 years for four years, with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years. For 2022, the upper age limit was raised to 23 years.
Agneepath Scheme (also spelled as Agneepath Scheme) is a tour of duty style scheme launched by the Government of India on 14 June 2022 to recruit soldiers below the rank of commissioned officers in the three services of the armed forces. All the recruits will be hired for a period of four years only.
Personnel recruited under this system would be called Agniveer, a new military rank. The introduction of the scheme has been criticized for the lack of consultation and public debate. This scheme was implemented in September 2022.
As anti-Agneepath plan protesters continue to wreak havoc in the country by vandalizing and burning public property, the Indian Defense Ministry on Sunday announced that those involved in any form of violent protest and arson would be punished with Agniveer. Entry will not be given. Program.