Monday, April 9, 2012

Parliamentary Panel calls three service chiefs

Reeling under the aftershocks of a slew of controversies, the Defence Ministry is now downplaying the attempted coup reports as the Defence Secretary told Parliamentary panel on Monday that no prior notification to the government was required for troops’ movement.

The Parliamentary Panel satisfied with the replies of Defence Secretary Shashikant Sharma and the Indian Army Vice Chief Lt Gen SK Singh, asked the three service chiefs – Admiral Nirmal Verma, General VK Singh and Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne – to give a brief about the preparedness of their respective forces on April 20.

The Defence Secretary and the Army Vice Chief had appeared before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence for the second time, since the leakage of the contents of the Army Chief’s confidential letter to the Prime Minister sparked a national outrage.
The Panel has agreed that the contents of the leaked letter that the security of the country was at risk as the air defence was 97 percent obsolete and its tanks were running short of critical ammunition also demanded due consideration and therefore called the three chiefs to present their case.

Sources said that the MPs on the panel also quizzed the duo about the alleged “un-notified” troop movements on Jan 16 that reportedly “spooked” the Central government. The Defence Secretary is learnt to have said that no notification was required for the movement of one or two units. The prior intimation to the government is done in case of the movement of larger formations of troops.

However, Sharma chose to ignore another query from an MP about why an explanation was sought from the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) if the troop mobilization was routine. Highly placed sources also contended that the defence ministry wants to downplay the public spectacle of the ebbing civil-military relations.

3 comments:

  1. THE THREE SERVICE CHIEFS MUST GIVE A STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF THE 200000CRORES OF TAX PAYERS MONEY TO THE PARLIAMENT EVRY YEAR ON 31 MAR. WHAT CAPABILITIES HAVE BEEN BUILT AND WHERE ARE
    INDIVIDUAL SERVICES LAGGING . TRASPARANCY
    WILL BRING ACCOUNTABILITY OF BABUS AND POLITCANS WHO SEEM TO GETTING SCOT FREE AFTER EACH AND EVERY SCAM. THE INDIAN SYSTEM OF DEMOCRACY MAKES THE BABU AND POLITCAN GO SCOT FREE. SINCE DEFENCE SECRETARY IS RESPONSIBLE AS PER THE GOVT RULES OF BUSINESSTHE SERVICE CHIEFS MUST LAY BARE
    WHERE HE HAS PERFORMED AND WHERE HE HAS FAULTED .
    THE PRESS MUST HOUND THE BABUS FOR THE DEFECIENCES AND NOT THE CHIEFS. THEY HAVE NO POWER . FOR TOO LONG BEHIND THE CLOAK OF SECRECY HAVE THE ROTTEN MOD THIEVES TAKEN SHELTER AND FOOLED THE GUILLABLE INDIANS

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  2. IN AINTERVIEW ON YOU TUBE BY HAMID GUL EX DGISI
    TO A PAK TV CHANNEL HE HAS OPENLY ADMITTED THAT
    WHATEVER THE INDIAN ARMY MOD BOSSES WRITE ORDERS HE RECEIVES THE COPY BEFORE EVEN THE THREE SERVICE CHIEFS GET TO SEE IT . INCONTEXT OF LEAK OF COAS LETTER TO PMO IT NEEDS TO BE ACSERTIANED BY THE MI AND RAW/IB HOW DEEP IS THE PENETRATION
    OF INDIAN DEFENCE ESTABLISHMENTS AND OFFICES OF MOD. THE PERSONNEL PRIVATE SECRETARIES IN ALL OFFICES INCLUDING CHAPRASIS CLERKS SUPTDS. ACSOS AND CSOS NEED TO BE DISBANDED BECAUSE IN A MODERN DEFENSE ESTABLISHMENT THEY HAVE NO ROLE
    AND ARE A HIGH SECURITY RISK ESPECIALLY WITH FOREIGN EMBASSIES AROUND AND INDIAN PEANUT SALARIES.

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  3. THE THREE SERVICE CHIEFS MUST GIVE A STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF THE 200000CRORES OF TAX PAYERS MONEY TO THE PARLIAMENT EVRY YEAR ON 31 MAR. WHAT CAPABILITIES HAVE BEEN BUILT AND WHERE ARE
    INDIVIDUAL SERVICES LAGGING . TRASPARANCY
    WILL BRING ACCOUNTABILITY OF BABUS AND POLITCANS WHO SEEM TO GETTING SCOT FREE AFTER EACH AND EVERY SCAM. THE INDIAN SYSTEM OF DEMOCRACY MAKES THE BABU AND POLITCAN GO SCOT FREE. SINCE DEFENCE SECRETARY IS RESPONSIBLE AS PER THE GOVT RULES OF BUSINESSTHE SERVICE CHIEFS MUST LAY BARE
    WHERE HE HAS PERFORMED AND WHERE HE HAS FAULTED .
    THE PRESS MUST HOUND THE BABUS FOR THE DEFECIENCES AND NOT THE CHIEFS. THEY HAVE NO POWER . FOR TOO LONG BEHIND THE CLOAK OF SECRECY HAVE THE ROTTEN MOD THIEVES TAKEN SHELTER AND FOOLED THE GUILLABLE INDIANS

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