KHATTAR, WHO WAS ADDRESSING RALLY IN BHIWANI, SAYS PM MODI HAS ALREADY DISTRIBUTED `5,600 CR UNDER THE SCHEME

ROHTAK: Having maintained his stand on not giving martyr status to ex-soldier, Ram Kishan Grewal, who committed suicide over One Rank One Pension issue, Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday did not visit his family despite holding a rally in Bhiwani. Grewal’s house in Bamla village of the district has been buzzing with political leaders of all the major opposition parties, including Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal, coming in to pay their condolences to the bereaved family.Khattar, who held a rally in Tosham in Bhiwani on Monday, defended Modi government on OROP. Addressing the rally, he said, “Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already distributed `5,600 crore under the scheme, while a budget of `9,000 crore has been allotted for its implementation. This is far more than what Congress Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and subsequent governments under the Congress allotted for this scheme.” Earlier, at Grewal’s funeral ceremony on Thursday, Congress national spokesperson Randeep Surjewala had attacked Khattar questioning his absence from the ceremony. “If Khattar had any sympathy with the bereaved family, he would have had come here to offer his condolences,” Surjewala had said.