Retired military personnel are readying themselves for the battle of ballots.
“We are going to fight the Lok Sabha polls as we have lost faith in present-day political parties which are denying us due pensions,” the vice-chairman of the Indian Ex-servicemen Movement, Maj Gen (retired) Satbir Singh, has said.
They would try to ensure that the UPA did not return to power as “it has ill-treated us by not granting the ‘one-rank-one pension’ demand”, he said.
Source : The Telegraph.