Column for caste or religion required to be filled ‘purely for administrative reasons’ for the last few decades, says BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra.
Column for caste or religion required to be filled ‘purely for administrative reasons’ for the last few decades, says BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra.
The BJP on Tuesday accused the Opposition of spreading misinformation especially with regard to the new armed forces recruitment scheme Agnipath and reports that caste and religion were being made the basis of recruitment, terming all such talk as ‘rumor-mongering’.
BJP national spokeperson Sambit Patra said that no such changes had been made in the recruitment forms, and the column for caste or religion was required to be filled “purely for administrative reasons” for the last few decades. He made the clarification after a tweet by Aam Aadmi Party Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh, raising doubts over columns in the recruitment forms for the Agnipath scheme…
