Unusual Delhi: Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday rejected the Opposition’s allegations that, for the first time within the nation, caste certificates are being asked from the Agnipath aspirants.
“Or now now not it’s upright a rumour. The earlier system, existing since the pre-independence generation, is occurring. No exchange has been made. The aged system is being persevered,” acknowledged Mr Singh.
A senior Navy reliable acknowledged that the requirement for aspirants to submit caste certificates and, if required, faith certificates used to be all the time there. “There are now now not any adjustments to the Agniveer recruitment blueprint in this regard,” acknowledged the reliable.
Earlier, several Opposition leaders had alleged that the Navy used to be the utilization of caste as a ingredient for recruitment below the Agnipath blueprint. Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav and AAP’s Sanjay Singh launched a pointy assault on the manager, whereas JD(U) leader Upendra Kushwaha and BJP MP Varun Gandhi also tweeted a purported sage linked to the recruitment order to request the need for a caste certificate and raised concerns.
The RJD leader alleged that the “extremely casteist executive of the Sangh (RSS) at the Centre” will now obtain out about at Agnipath recruits’ caste and faith whereas discharging 75 per cent of them.
“When there might be no such thing as a reservation within the Navy, then what’s the need for a caste certificate,” Mr Yadav asked, tagging the purported Navy sage that sought caste and non secular certificates amongst other paperwork from the candidates.
“The BJP executive of the RSS runs away from the caste census but asks Agniveers who will lay down their lives for the nation about their caste,” he acknowledged.
AAP’s Sanjay Singh in a tweet acknowledged that for the first time in India’s history, candidates have been asked to show their caste within the Navy recruitment and asked if Prime Minister Narendra Modi would now not spend into memoir dalits, backwards and tribals eligible to attend within the militia. “The cheap face of the Modi executive has come out in entrance of the nation… Modi ji, it be a need to to bag ‘Agniveer’ or ‘Jaativeer’,” he tweeted in Hindi.
RJD MP Manoj Jha had submitted an adjournment behold to focus on about what he termed the “disastrous implications” of the Agnipath blueprint as effectively as “the denial of opportunities” within the railways to thousands of job aspirants.
Closing month, the manager launched the Agnipath blueprint, a non eternal recruitment structure within the militia.
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