A former serviceman on Wednesday committed suicide at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi over the One Rank One Pension (OROP) issue.
Ram Kishan Grewal, the former jawan from Bhiwani district in Haryana who committed suicide, left a note which stated that he was taking this extreme step for the Indian soldiers, eyewitnesses told.
CNN-News18 further reported that Grewal’s family has blamed the Centre for the former jawan’s suicide. Grewal had also written to Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar over the issue.
“Please pay heed to our demands,” Grewal had written in his letter.
Apart from pointing out that the pension received by the former servicemen was still low, Grewal had also complained in the letter that his former colleagues who had the same rank as him got more pension than him because of the discrepancies in the current pension scheme.
