Congress is politicizing Agniveer scheme to fulfill personal interest: Kangana

Mandi Lok Sabha candidate Kangana Ranaut today launched a strong attack on Rahul Gandhi in her election campaign, saying that ever since Rahul Baba became the leader, many radical changes are taking place in the politics of this country. Rahul Gandhi has started a new tradition of making false things an issue. One of the best examples of this is Agniveer Yojana. He said that misconception is being spread across the country regarding Agniveer scheme that after 4 years, 75 percent of Agniveer have no future and their lives will be ruined. But under this scheme, if 100 soldiers become Agniveer, then 25 percent of them will get direct permanent posting in the army and for the remaining 75 percent soldiers, all the BJP ruled state governments have made 10 percent to 20 percent reservation in their police forces. And 10 percent reservation has also been made in the paramilitary forces of the Central Government. A youth will undergo training for 4 years at government expense and will become capable. Along with a good salary, after 4 years he will also get a job for the rest of his life with a pension. Kangana said that there will be no harm to the soldiers in this. For the benefit of his party, Rahul Gandhi is spreading lies among the people and misleading the public. She called upon the youth not to fall prey to such false illusions and I want to warn them not to mislead the public by spreading such lies in a small state like Himachal which is also the battlefield of this fraud. He said that the people of Himachal Pradesh know very well that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, efforts have been made to make the Army world class on every front.

Kangana Ranaut said that to come to power in the state, Congress first cheated my mothers, sisters and daughters in the name of giving them Rs 1500 per month and now their national leaders are coming to Himachal and spreading the lie of giving them Rs 8500 per month. He said that today Chief Minister Sukhu Lahaul Spiti’s lie of giving Rs 1500 to our mothers, sisters and daughters has come to the fore and still Congress people are spreading lies on Rs 1500, free electricity, 1 lakh jobs every year and ₹ per month to women. The real face of Congress, which came to power in the state by making false promises like giving Rs 1500, has been exposed before the people of Himachal. These pictures of Hamirpur public meeting show that the public has made up its mind to teach Congress a lesson for false promises and make all four seats in Himachal bloom.

Candidate Kangana said that the people of Himachal are going to give all four seats to Modi for the third time. As soon as the results come on 4th June, Modi ji will cross 400 and Rahul Baba will hold a press conference and blame the defeat on EVMs. After committing a scam of Rs 12 lakh crore, the opposition leader is dreaming of becoming the Prime Minister again. Congress is a party of breaking promises, scams and locking institutions. Congress embezzled Rs 3,200 crore sent by the Center for the disaster. Modi ji has done 100% development of the country and 150% development of Himachal. The Congress Chief Minister has made Himachal the ATM of the Gandhi family. Development is not the work of Congress, development is the habit of BJP. He strongly attacked the corruption of the Congress government and the appeasement politics of the Indian alliance and presented the development and welfare works done by the Modi government in the last 10 years among the public.

Mid Day Meal Workers Union Sunni unit meeting was held in Basantpur. In the meeting, CITU District Treasurer Balak Ram, Mid Day Meal Union Unit President Pushpa Sharma, General Secretary Sheela Devi, Treasurer Champa Devi, Neelam, Nisha, Lata, Vidya, Anil, Yashpal, Manorama, Meera Sharma, Mohan Lal, Chaman Sharma, Sohan Lal, Usha. , Sunita Daywanti, Kamla, Kaushalya, Rita Ranjana, etc., hundreds were present. The union has called for intensifying the struggle.

While addressing the meeting, Balak Ram, Pushpa Sharma, Sheela Devi, Champa Devi said that if the salaries of the mid day meal workers are not paid for the last two months, they will go on strike. And if the daily wage is not given on election duty, then the duty will not be given. He demanded a salary of Rs 7,000 on the lines of Haryana. They have demanded that the Union has welcomed the decision of the Honorable Himachal High Court to give twelve months salary to the mid day meal workers and has termed it as a victory of the fifteen years long judicial struggle of the mid day meal workers. Facility of 12 to 20 holidays should be provided on the lines of Mid Day Meal of Punjab Government and Anganwadi in Himachal. They should be given two uniforms in a year. Mid day meal workers should be given priority in multi task recruitment. They should be given extra pay for extra work. Like other staff in closed schools, mid-day meal workers should also be accommodated in other schools. The job-related condition of 25 children should be removed for them. They should not be made to cook food for the polling party during elections. It is mandatory to appoint two mid-day meal workers in every school. As per the recommendation of the 45th Indian Labor Conference, mid-day meal workers should be given the status of laborers and they should be regularized.

Speakers said that the Modi government of the country is continuing its sharp attacks on the working class. As per the condition of 45th Labor Conference, the Central Government is not implementing the scheme to give laborers status, pension, gratuity, health etc. facilities to the workers. The governments at the Center have not increased the salaries of mid-day meal workers by even one rupee since 2009. Modi government wants to hand over this scheme to corporate companies. This is the reason why the budget of this scheme is being continuously cut. The Modi government has hatched a well-planned conspiracy by changing the name of the mid-day meal scheme to Pradhan Mantri Poshan Shakti Yojana and ending it. The government is starting Central Kitchen and DBT in the Mid Day Meal Scheme due to which layoff of Mid Day Meal workers is certain. The central government has come up with a new education policy, due to which there will be privatization on a large scale. By doing all this the BJP government wants to end the employment of mid day meal workers. Many schools in the state have been closed and many mid-day meal workers have been thrown out of their jobs. And the vacant posts in schools should be filled immediately.