Gandhi-Nehru Clan Rahul Gandhi and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal Politicises the OROP protest , Came to Support OROP protestors at Jantar Mantar, Protestors say "Go back Rahul Gandhi"

Riding high on issues and protests, Congress Vice President  and Sonia Gandhi's Son Rahul Gandhi and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday jumped to the support of former servicemen, who have been protesting the delay in the implementation of one rank one pension (OROP). He Was greeted with "Go back Rahul" Slogan



NDMC with the help of Delhi Police wanted to clear the protest hotspot amid the security concerns on this Independence day. In the process, Police allegedly manhandled few protestors. This move has come under attack from the veterans terming this as a "Black Independence Day"

As per Times of India reports,Rahul Said "People from armed forces and jawans spend their lives on the border, they are protesting now and they shouldn't be removed," he said, after many of the protesters were forcibly removed from Jantar Mantar.

"The PM should give a date as to when he can bring in OROP. All this protest will end then," Gandhi said at Jantar Mantar as reported by Hindustan Times. 


"The government should have thought about the technicalities (of implementing the scheme) before (announcing the scheme)," Gandhi  further said as per Hindustan Times.


Ex-servicemen from several parts of the country came together for protest at Jantar-mantar to put pressure on the Government for urgent and immediate implementation of one rank one pension scheme.

One Rank, One Pension (OROP), or same pension, for same rank, not for same length of service, respective of the date of retirement, was the basis for determining the pension and benefits of Indian Armed Forces till 1973.


In 1973, the Indian National Congress(INC) government headed by Indira Gandhi, then Prime Minister terminated OROP. The termination of OROP caused disquiet in the Armed Forces and has since become a cause of public protests by Armed Forces Veterans.

An all party ten member Parliamentary Panel, known as the Koshyari Committee after its Chairman, examined OROP. The Koshyari Committee blamed the delay in implementing OROP on bureaucratic resistance and apathy.The Koshyari Committee unanimously found merit in OROP, and recommended its early implementation.



OROP, an increasingly politicized , and often a misunderstood and misrepresented issue, in the run up to the Indian general election of 2014 , found favor with the INC, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) .The top leaders of these parties, including Sonia Gandhi of INC, and Narendra Modi of BJP, made repeated public commitments to implement OROP.



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News Source- Times of India and Hindustan Times Report
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