General VK Singh, former army chief and now a union minister claimed that he was a Congress worker who became Sarpanch after contesting on the party ticket. “He was a Congress worker who fought the Sarpanch election on party ticket.

His suicide is unfortunate,” V K Singh said. OROP: One Rank One Pension, cleared by the government last year, the program is meant to equalize pension payments for soldiers of the same rank who served for the same amount of time.

Earlier on Thursday, Defence Minsiter Manohar Parrikar told reporters that one lakh defence personnel are yet to get full benefit of OROP. On Wednesday, Singh questioned the “mental state” of Grewal. “He has committed suicide. No one knows the reason behind it. OROP is being shown as the reason. What his mental state was we do not know. Let it be probed first. OROP should be kept above politics" he said.