Armed forces as a vote bank

Days before the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government announced the “One Rank One Pension” policy for defence personnel, Pratap Singh Bajwa, the Congress MP from Gurdaspur, broke the news to a few ex-servicemen in Chandigarh. Once it was formally announced, a beaming Mr. Bajwa stood beside Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi when he came to meet grateful ex-servicemen.

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