10 years, 10 months ago

Modi must shut up VK Singh, but he has to fix Army-govt ties

Gen VK Singh was clearly out of line when he tweeted nasty things about the next army chief. Gen Singh can’t now take his private battles public Gen VK Singh is not doing himself or the professional army he served till mid-2012 any credit by making wild allegations about the next army chief, Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag. !” It is possible that the defence ministry affidavit that trashed Gen Singh’s actions may have been initiated at a lower level, and Arun Jaitley, who is holding additional charge as defence minister, may not have known about it. He has thus once again broken the Omerta code among politicians and the public that one does not play politics with the army – even if some bad things have been done to Gen Singh. By abusing the next army chief, Gen Singh has lost whatever sympathy the public may have had for his cause.

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