Protests over the Agnipath scheme erupted in at least six districts of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, with slogan-shouting young men blocking roads and pelting stones in Mathura. A man struggled to hold up a child as a family sought to escape stone-throwing by protesters against the Agnipath defense recruitment scheme in visuals from Mathura on Friday. People could be seen running for cover behind the police in the video from the Uttar Pradesh town as young men continued their angry demonstrations across several states.
The protests come hours after the Defense Ministry announced a one-time waiver for the upper-age limit of the recruits from 21 to 23. The opposition has targeted the Centre over the Agnipath recruitment scheme. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi slammed the Centre over the scheme, tweeting “No rank, no pension, no direct recruitment for 2 years, no stable future after four years, no respect shown by the government for the army.”
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