PM Modi lying on OROP: Rahul Gandhi

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “lying” on the implementation of one- rank, one-pension scheme.

A day after facing police detention for the third time, Rahul met delegations of ex-servicemen from across the country at the Congress headquarters here signalling that the party would be unrelenting in its campaign to press for “justice” on the OROP issue.

As Rahul interacted with the delegations, Youth Congress activists set out to march to the Prime Minister’s Office to protest the “non-implementation” of OROP.“What prime minister calls one-rank, one-pension, is actually pension enhancement and not OROP. The prime minister



should stop lying on the issue,” an aggressive Rahul told reporters after meeting 60-70 ex-servicemen here.

The Congress vice-president said the ex-servicemen have some other demands relating to disability pension and the Seventh Pay Commission recommendations which the government should fulfil after the promise to implement OROP in toto.

He wanted the government to apologise for the police manhandling of the family of ex-soldier Ram Kishan Grewal, who reportedly committed suicide over not getting full benefits of OROP. Former defence minister A K Antony, who was also present at the meeting, hailed Rahul as the inspiration for the UPA government’s decision to implement OROP.