Trouble is set to rise for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of Bihar Assembly election as ex-servicemen have now threatened to begin a door-to-door campaign in Bihar if the government fails to fulfill its promises on One Rank One Pension (OROP) within the next one week. Read: PM Modi will make announcement on OROP in due course: Parrikar

Talking to India Today, Major Satbir Singh said, " We are preparing a strategy to take the battle of OROP nationwide. Our team will travel to Bihar to highlight the government's unkept promises." The move could hit the BJP hard in the upcoming Assembly polls, scheduled to be held in September/October as the state has a large number of ex-servicemen.

Modi has failed my dreams: Jethmalani

Veteran lawyer Ram Jethmalani on Monday extended his support to the ex-servicemen protesting at Jantar Mantar the national capital. Jethmalani attacked the NDA government over its failure to implement OROP and said "PM Modi failed his dream." The protest at the Jantar Mantar entered its 78th day on Monday.

"I am ashamed to say that Modi has completely failed my dream of him," Jethmalani said. "The politicians unfortunately have let down the entire nation. I feel ashamed in saying this, I'm a politician too, but I'm not one of those politicians who will forget their friends and people of nation," the former BJP MP said.

Close to 22 lakh retired servicemen and over six lakh war widows stand to be the immediate beneficiaries of the OROP, which envisages a uniform pension for the defence personnel who retire in the same rank with the same length of service irrespective of their date of retirement.