An afternoon after Army leader General Bipin Rawat stated All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) has grown quicker than BJP, at least three opposition parties — CPM, AIUDF and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen — got here down heavily on him for creating a “political” commentary and sought the President’s intervention. Congress refused to remark on the controversial remark however in the same breath alleged that the BJP regime would “do the rest” to divert consideration from the PNB rip-off.
During a conference in Delhi on bridging gaps and securing borders within the northeast, the Army leader, while regarding the saffron birthday celebration successful only two seats in 1984, had stated, “There is a celebration known as AIUDF. If you look at it, they've grown in a quicker time frame than the BJP grew over time.” He had made the remarks on AIUDF “moving at a quicker tempo in Assam” to buttress his level on the build up in Muslim population in numerous districts of the state within the backdrop of the National Register of Citizens being updated and finalised to locate illegal immigrants there.
Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman refused to remark on the remarks when asked via journalists at a serve as in Lucknow.
Hitting out at Gen Rawat, AIUDF president and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal advised TOI, “The Constitution has given him the accountability to steer the great Army and not to track the rise and fall of any political birthday celebration. He has stepped out of doors the boundaries the Constitution has set for him.” Ajmal stated AIUDF is not a birthday celebration of Muslim people. “Every election, we field 25-30 Hindu brothers as our applicants…our victories come from authentic citizens, enlisted via the EC.”
Asked about Gen Rawat’s commentary, chief of the opposition within the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, stated, “I would now not love to remark in this. But I would simply say that within the coming days you're going to get to hear many outrageous issues. For diverting the attention, they are going to do the rest because now PNB fraud has caught the attention of all the country.”
CPM politburo member Brinda Karat stated Gen Rawat’s comments had been “irrelevant” and seemed to be aimed toward “politicising” the Army. “He has crossed the constitutional Lakshan rekha that separates the Army and politics. The President of India, as superb commander of the Army, should step in and make sure this is not repeated,” she added.
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi wanted to know if the Centre agreed with the Army leader’s remark, including that the previous’s silence would mean that Gen Rawat had made the commentary at the behest of the government and “with its blessings”. He tweeted, “Politics within the Army is poison. Keep off it.”
During a conference in Delhi on bridging gaps and securing borders within the northeast, the Army leader, while regarding the saffron birthday celebration successful only two seats in 1984, had stated, “There is a celebration known as AIUDF. If you look at it, they've grown in a quicker time frame than the BJP grew over time.” He had made the remarks on AIUDF “moving at a quicker tempo in Assam” to buttress his level on the build up in Muslim population in numerous districts of the state within the backdrop of the National Register of Citizens being updated and finalised to locate illegal immigrants there.
Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman refused to remark on the remarks when asked via journalists at a serve as in Lucknow.
Hitting out at Gen Rawat, AIUDF president and Lok Sabha MP Badruddin Ajmal advised TOI, “The Constitution has given him the accountability to steer the great Army and not to track the rise and fall of any political birthday celebration. He has stepped out of doors the boundaries the Constitution has set for him.” Ajmal stated AIUDF is not a birthday celebration of Muslim people. “Every election, we field 25-30 Hindu brothers as our applicants…our victories come from authentic citizens, enlisted via the EC.”
Asked about Gen Rawat’s commentary, chief of the opposition within the Rajya Sabha, Ghulam Nabi Azad, stated, “I would now not love to remark in this. But I would simply say that within the coming days you're going to get to hear many outrageous issues. For diverting the attention, they are going to do the rest because now PNB fraud has caught the attention of all the country.”
CPM politburo member Brinda Karat stated Gen Rawat’s comments had been “irrelevant” and seemed to be aimed toward “politicising” the Army. “He has crossed the constitutional Lakshan rekha that separates the Army and politics. The President of India, as superb commander of the Army, should step in and make sure this is not repeated,” she added.
AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi wanted to know if the Centre agreed with the Army leader’s remark, including that the previous’s silence would mean that Gen Rawat had made the commentary at the behest of the government and “with its blessings”. He tweeted, “Politics within the Army is poison. Keep off it.”
Army chief draws fire for ‘political statement’
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