National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval said on Tuesday that a clear message should be sent to the youth that those who join the armed forces are not there only for the money, adding that the Agnipath scheme will not be rolled back and the reforms were in the making since 1970 but the “political will was missing”. He said the regimental system was a colonial legacy to divide the people of India but the Agnipath scheme will not tinker with it. He said that while there was a fear of the unknown in some quarters, protests were being fuelled by “conflict entrepreneurs”.
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Mr. Doval, in an interview with private news agency Asian News International (ANI), said the government’s move was “not a knee-jerk reaction that has come overnight” but has been debated and discussed for over decades.
