‘Ex-servicemen levelling fake charges against PM: Rajendra Singh
   Date :25-Apr-2019

 
Staff Reporter:
 
“A group of ex-servicemen is trying to misguide the public to defame Prime Minister, Narendra Modi by levelling fake charges of irregularities in payment of One Rank One Pension. They are misguiding the public in influence of Congress Party to take political advantage in General Election – 2018. Irregularities in payment of OROP is a baseless claim as ex-servicemen have already got its benefits through four instalments of arrears and rise of Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000 in monthly pension”, charged by Rajendra Singh, Ex-serviceman and Founder President of Vision Ordnance Organisation while addressing a press conference, on Wednesday.
 
 
Ex-serviceman Rajendra Singh informed that a retired Major General from New Delhi reached Jabalpur and charged the Modi Government for duping ex-servicemen in the name of One Rank One Pension just to defame the Government and misguiding the residents of Jabalpur. He levelled serious charges against Modi Government without giving any evidence only to support Congress Candidate in Jabalpur Parliamentary Constituency.
 
Singh informed that Jabalpur has a major cantonment area with the establishment of three army regiments and a good population of ex-servicemen in the city. None of the ex-servicemen is available in Jabalpur to charge irregularity in OROP but Congress Party invited the outsiders to misguide ex-servicemen in Jabalpur. He informed that OROP was implemented after 26-years of the independence but the then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi had stopped it in the year 1973. Besides this, third pay commission had increased the pension of civilians but pension of ex-servicemen was curtailed. Thereafter, the issue could not be solved through fourth and fifth pay commission and unrest was created amongst ex-servicemen when ex-servicemen started a campaign and returned their medals for demand of OROP. Kesariya Committee was constituted to redress the demand of ex-servicemen and handed over its report to the then UPA Government in December 2011 but it could not be implemented.
 
 
BJP-led NDA Government had implemented the recommendations of Kesariya Committee and provided long awaited benefits of OROP to ex-servicemen. As per the recommendations, ex-servicemen have been given payment of arrears in four instalments and their monthly pension has been increased. Now, ex-servicemen are waiting for green signal of Central Government to reduce the review period of OROP from five years to one year. During the press conference, ex-servicemen include Rajnish Singh, Subedar Major Suryakant Yadav, Dinesh Singh, AK Yadav, JR Sharma, Subedar TD Joshi, Ramanuj Singh, CB Kshatriya, Naib Subedar, CK Singh, Vijay Bahadur Patel and others were present and shown their bank passbooks as evidence of getting OROP benefits.