Retired military personnel in the battle of ballots.

Retired military personnel are readying themselves for the battle of ballots.

“We are going to fight the Lok Sabha polls as we have lost faith in present-day political parties which are denying us due pensions,” the vice-chairman of the Indian Ex-servicemen Movement, Maj Gen (retired) Satbir Singh, has said.

They would try to ensure that the UPA did not return to power as “it has ill-treated us by not granting the ‘one-rank-one pension’ demand”, he said.

Source : The Telegraph.