{"id":234717,"date":"2021-12-17T16:44:50","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T11:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=234717"},"modified":"2021-12-17T18:19:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T12:49:20","slug":"armed-forces-vacancies-congress-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/armed-forces-vacancies-congress-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Randeep Surjewala attacks BJP, says govt doing politics on sacrifice of soldiers but not filling up 1,22,555 vacancies in armed forces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala led an attack on the Modi government and called them pseudo nationalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He accused the central government of doing politics on the sacrifice and valour of soldiers but not filling up over 1,22,555 vacancies in the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He shared a tweet in Hindi, in which he said that the sacrifice of armed forces and soldiers are being used only to get votes, but there is betrayal when it comes to filling up vacant positions or proving facilities to soldiers. He further said that this is the pseudo nationalism of the Modi government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surjewala also posted the written reply by the minister of state for defence Ajay Bhatt to a question in Rajya Sabha on December 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Minister’s response stated that posts of 7,476 officers and 97,177 JCOs\/ORs\/Airmen\/Sailors are still lying vacant in the Indian Army of 621 officers and 4,850 airmen in the Indian Air Forces and 11,265 officers and 11,166 sailors in the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Congress MLA from Karnataka<\/a>, KR Ramesh Kumar sparked outrage on Thursday, December 16 for his sexist comment during the Karnataka Assembly session. He made the enjoy rape remark when Speaker Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri gave up after the members demanded more time to speak on farmers\u2019 issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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