Congress insulting families of servicemen: BJP
The HinduThe BJP on Friday accused the Congress-led Rajasthan government of insulting the families of servicemen after the Rajasthan Police evicted the widows of three Central Reserve Police Force jawans, slain at Pulwama in 2019, from a protest site in Jaipur. Addressing a presser at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi, former Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore alleged that the “Congress mindset is of insulting martyrs and their families”. The three ladies were protesting since February 28, and had launched an indefinite hunger strike six days ago outside Congress leader and former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot’s house, demanding a change in rules, so that their relatives and not just children could get government jobs on compassionate grounds. On Thursday, Mr. Gehlot had accused State BJP leaders of “using the widows of the martyrs for their narrow political interests and thus, dishonouring them”, while on the demonstrators’ demands he had asked if it would be “appropriate” to give jobs to other relatives of the martyred jawans, instead of their children.
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