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new delhi: The Congress on Tuesday accused the Union government of “betraying” the country’s soldiers and youth by seeking to absorb Agniveers in private security agencies after the completion of their four-year service.

Addressing a press conference, Colonel (retd.) Rohit Chaudhary, chairman of the party’s ex-servicemen department, said the move exposed the government’s “duplicity” on its earlier promise to provide permanent, pension-based employment to Agniveers. The Congress maintained that this decision effectively reduced young, trained soldiers to “private guards” after they served the nation.

Colonel (retd.) Chaudhary argued that the Agnipath recruitment scheme had already weakened the armed forces’ structure, reducing total strength from about 15 lakh to 11 lakh personnel

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