New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu on Sunday said the Congress will bring back the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and meeting will be held today for discussion to build strategy.

“Old Pension scheme will be implemented. We have called a meeting today regarding that. We’re going to give the Old Pension scheme to our workers who have contributed to the development of the state,” said the Himachal CM.

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The grand-old party had campaigned in the hill state promising to implement the OPS again which was scrapped by earlier government.

The OPS was one of the significant agenda on the list of Congress to convince people to bring them in power. In all her rallies, Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra strove to tell people how the previous government did injustice by doing away with the scheme for the state employees.

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As the Congress returned to power after a gap of five-year-term in the Himachal Pradesh, the party began to focus all its efforts on restoring the OPS.