Gujarat Election 2022: Congress And AAP's Bet Against BJP, Old Pension Restoration Becomes Important Election Issue

Gujarat Election 2022: Himachal The election is over and now the eyes of the political parties are on the Gujarat elections. No party wants to leave any stone unturned in campaigning. In this episode, the demand for restoration of Old Pension Scheme (OPS) in Gujarat has now become an important election issue. Both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have promised to implement it if they come to power in the state after next month’s assembly elections. With this promise, the opposition parties want to get the support of lakhs of government employees who are against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the new pension scheme. Let us tell you, in two phases for the 182 member assembly of Gujarat, one more Voting is to be held on December 5. , Gujarat Government has issued notification for the employees who started the job on or after 1st April, 2005 A new contributory pension scheme was started for As per its notification, it is the Basic Pay and Dearness Allowance (DA) contributed by the employees to the NPS Fund. will be equal to the percentage. Under the scheme of the Centre, the government would of the employee’s salary and DA with effect from 1st April, Against Percentage Contribution 61 contributes the percentage. After protests by employees in Gujarat, the state government had said that the new pension would not be applicable to those employees who had worked in April 805 before the job was started.

Government contributed its contribution to the fund increased by percentage 14 also promised to do percentage. Employees in Gujarat have staged a massive agitation against the government demanding restoration of the old pension scheme as they believe that the new pension scheme is not in the interest of retired employees. Both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party have assured the agitating employees that the New Pension Scheme (NPS) will be scrapped and the old pension scheme will be restored. He has given examples of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh (where Congress is in power) and Punjab (ruled by AAP) to explain his point.

Digvijaysinh Jadeja, working president of All India Primary Teachers Association, an organization of government primary school teachers, told ‘PTI-Bhasha’, “We 15 started an agitation with demands, of which old pension Demands related to reinstatement of the scheme and fixed wage issue were not accepted. The government constituted a committee. She said that she would increase her contribution to the NPS fund but no notification was issued.” About seven lakh government employees are pressurizing for the restoration of the old pension scheme, in which they 68, includes primary school teachers who 493 before the job was started on a fixed salary.

The restoration of old pension in Gujarat is part of the election manifesto of the Congress. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had said that those who are claiming that the old pension scheme will burden the government exchequer, they are not saying it right as it can be restored through financial management. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has assured government employees in Gujarat that it will implement the old pension scheme if voted to power in the state. In order to fulfill its promise in Punjab, the AAP government had approved its reinstatement.

AAP’s national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Kejriwal had recently claimed in a statement that the new pension scheme is “unfair”. He said that the old pension scheme should be restored and implemented across the country. He had tweeted that the ‘AAP’ government led by Bhagwant Mann in Punjab fulfilled the promise. Kejriwal had said, “If the people of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat give (us) a chance, we will implement the old pension scheme there too.” For Himachal Pradesh’s 68 Assembly seats on Saturday Voting is over.

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Sun, Nov 13, 2022, 5: 03 PM IST