Congress has demanded a rollback of the Agnipath scheme and asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to break his silence and stop playing with the lives of youngsters.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Rajya Sabha MP Nasir Hussain, TPCC president Revanth Reddy, and TPCC Campaign Committee chairman Madhu Yaskhi Goud said that the country’s security would be at great risk if the Agnipath scheme was implemented. The government must withdraw this ‘Tughlaqui’ decision, they said.
Mr. Hussain, who was here as part of the party’s nationwide programme “Agnipath ki baat: Yuvaon se vishwasghaat” to highlight the issue, said that the Congress would stand with the country’s youth. “We will fight for you in Parliament and also in the streets. Protest peacefully and the Congress will back you on your just demands,” he said.
