Opposition members on Friday walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to protest against the Panel Chairman’s decision not to allow a discussion on the Agnipath recruitment scheme for the defence services.
Congress MPs K. C. Venugopal and Uttam Kumar Reddy, and Bahujan Samaj Party MP Danish Ali, who are members of the parliamentary panel on Defence, requested senior BJP leader and Committee chairman Jual Oram to take up the Agnipath recruitment scheme as “it has huge national security implications and required parliamentary scrutiny”.
They argued that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the three service chiefs have made a presentation before the Consultative Committee on Defence.
