The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] has alleged that through “Agnipath Scheme” BJP is fulfilling Vinayak Damodar Savarkar’s goal of “militarising Hindu society” and serving interest of corporates.

People’s Democracy, the party’s mouthpiece, in it’s latest editorial said, “The fact that several thousand demobilised soldiers with arms training will join the society every year would go some way in fulfilling Savarkar’s goal of militarising Hindu society.”

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) also criticised the corporate support that the scheme has received and said it is an example of the “Hindutva-corporate alliance at work”.

The reason for the support of the corporate sector for the Agnipath scheme lies elsewhere. With the defense production industry open to the private sector, it is the big industrial houses like Tatas and Mahindras who are getting into defense production projects,” the editorial said.

The Left party claimed that such a step will serve corporates and Hindutva forces in future.