Ex-servicemen planning to
show black flags to Gadkari,detained
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari.
Ambala
(Har): About 20 ex-servicemen, were detained on Monday when they gathered to
show black flags in protest against the delay in implementation of 'One Rank One
Pension' (OROP), to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, who was on a visit here.
Police
said Gadkari’s convoy was to pass through the route and the protesters, who had
planned to shows black flags to the Minister, were detained and released after
a while.
The
convoy could pass through the route peacefully. The ex-servicemen, who arrived
at Indira Chowk near Ambala Cantt here in two vehicles with black flags in
their hands, were raising slogans demanding immediate implementation of OROP.
The retired army men have been holding relay hunger-strike for the
past several days in Ambala City for this demand. Gadkari, the Minister for
Road Transport, Highways and Shipping was in Haryana, including Ambala, today
for foundation laying ceremony of 326.40 km long three National Highway
projects worth Rs 3018 crore. These include four-laning of Yamunanagar to
Barwala Section on NH-73, Hisar to Dabwali Section on NH-10 and Ambala to Kaithal
Section of NH-65.
SOI: IESM.
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