Patna,(BiharTimes): A few weeks back ex-servicemen-turned-Special Auxiliary Police (SAP) jawans took to streets of Patna to press their charter of demands. It started appearing that their agitation may harm the poll prospect of the ruling party in Bihar, though the fact is that the very constitution of SAP is the brainchild of the Nitish Kumar government.

Now it is the turn of the United Front of Ex-servicemen to turn their heat on the BJP. It has decided to ask voters of Bihar not to vote for the saffron party if the Centre does not implement One Rank, One Pension (OROP) scheme before the dates of Bihar Assembly elections are anounced.

Incidentally, in the run-up to the last year’s Lok Sabha election the BJP had promised to fulfil the demands of the Army veterans.

“If the government does not implement OROP by the time elections in Bihar are announced, we will go all out and tell voters not to support. We will not be partisan and will leave the choice to the voters,” Col Devinder Behl (retd), spokesperson of the exservicemen movement was quoted by Economic Times in a report from New Delhi.

The report quoting its office-bearers said that given the large ex-servicemen population in Bihar, a determined effort would lead to electoral consequences for the BJP.

For example, Maj Gen Satbir Singh (retd) told the daily that the plan is to have pan-Bihar rallies with active support from the ground to send across a message.

Though some ex-servicemen expect that the Prime Minister may make announcement in this regard on August 15 office bearers of the United Front of Ex-servicemen say that Narendra Modi has made at least two announcements on the issue in the past that have not been honoured till now.

“We are waiting till August 15 after which a huge scaling up of the protest in planned,” Maj Gen Singh said.