TIA NEWS
Union minister and BJP leader VK Singh has said that the deceased soldier Ram Kishan Grewal was a Congress worker. Yesterday he raised questions about the “mental state” of Ram Kishan Grewal, an army veteran whose suicide, allegedly over OROP
He also rejected reports about Grewal being a prominent face of the ‘One Rank-One Pension’ agitation, saying ex-servicemen protesting at Jantar Mantar for its implementation had on Wednesday said that they had seen the former armyman at the protest venue for the first time before he committed suicide.
“He (Grewal) was a Congress worker. He became sarpanch on a Congress ticket. However, he was our soldier. I feel sad over his death,” the minister said.
The minister had landed himself in a controversy on Wednesday when he said that the “mental state” of Grewal needed to be probed before drawing conclusions about his extreme action.
“He has committed suicide. No one knows the reason behind it. OROP is being shown as the reason. What his mental state was we do not know. Let it be probed first. OROP should be kept above politics,” Singh told reporters, while reacting to the incident, which led to high-voltage protests in the national capital on Wednesday.