New Delhi: Alleging that V K Singh had not only damaged the reputation of the Army but also of India, Union Minister Farooq Abdullah on Saturday said the former Army chief should be stripped of the title of Colonel of Rajput Regiment for “lying”.
“As the Chief of our Army, he, as a father of a family, has destroyed the family,” Abdullah said while making it clear that he or his son and Chief Minister Omar Abdullah or any member of his National Conference had never taken money from Army. Abdullah made it clear that upon return of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh from the United States, he will request him for holding an inquiry at the highest level to probe the charges levelled by Gen Singh. “Yes he is lying,” Abdullah said when asked in Karan Thapar’s Devil’s Advocate programme broadcast on CNN-IBN whether the former Army Chief was lying.
Abdullah also said that the former Army Chief should have been sacked the day he moved the court. He said an impartial inquiry into the charges made by Singh should be held at the earliest. “It is not to be clarified to not only Indians but to the entire world that who are the politicians who took money from the Army.”