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The chorus for action on an Army panel report that has blamed a secretive Military Intelligence unit under the watch of former Army Chief General V K Singh for widespread wrongdoing has grown stronger with Union Minister and former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah saying it is high time the Defence Minister and the Prime Minister take urgent action and identify those responsible for the actions of the unit.
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Referring to the Technical Support Division (TSD),a secret report on which has found several disturbing issues,including payment of money to a J&K minister as reported by The Indian Express,Abdullah called for strong accountability.
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Those responsible for this should be thrown out. This muck must be get rid from the army if you want an Army that stands on its principles, he said,adding that action should have been taken and should be taken even now because a lot of the people are in the service even today who are associated with this thing and they should be exposed and thrown out…Because tomorrow one of then can be the Army Chief.
As far as I know,this report (TSD Inquiry) has been there since March and if so,I think it is unfortunate that no action has been taken on a report of this order. I think it is high time that the defence minister and the PM take urgent action as to what has happened and how it has happened, he said at Idea Exchange organised by The Indian Express today.
He has created a fear in us of what has the army been doing? said Abdullah. Thats why I want an inquiry. To find out where the money is going,who it is being given to and for what. How is it being accounted for. (But) the government has been sitting on this. I do not think the Defence Minister has spoken about it, he said.
The Union Minister said that he literally shook when Singh made the allegations of payment of money to politicians. I said to myself,thank God he is not my Commander in Chief today. If he can move the Indian Army to the capital without informing anybody,that is something really surprising, he said,referring to the report in The Indian Express last April that revealed how the movement of two army units during Singhs tenure towards the national capital had rattled the government.
