Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at the Centre over Dearness Allowance that was suspended last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, accusing the government of trying to “snatch” hard-earned money from 113 lakh employees.
“Instead of encouraging the 113 lakh employees engaged in the service during the coronavirus pandemic the central government is trying to snatch their hard-earned money," Gandhi tweeted.
"It is a crime to loot ₹37,500 crores from soldiers, government employees and pensioners," he added.
Earlier Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi also raised this issue during an online press conference, stating that "This frequent shadow boxing by the central government, in respect of dearness allowance can only highlight and underline the mischievous, the malevolent and the Machiavellian approach of the government towards lakhs and crores of central government employees and lakhs of Army-related employees and pensioners within that category," Read: Congress demands immediate restoration of the DA instalments
Communist Party of India leader Sitaram Yechury had also called this Freese a criminal. In a tweet posted he mentioned "Modi govt withholds payment of ₹37.5K crores Dearness Allowance to 1.13 crore veterans, pensioners & employees for 1.5 years during this pandemic. Read: After Congress, Sitaram Yechury demands DA restoration
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