Confirmed: Army movement towards Delhi did spook Centre

February 21, 2014 09:31

Two years after a report which said that the government had feared a coup by the army under General VK Singh's command, another top official Lt Gen AK Choudhary has said that he had been summoned by Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma who expressed concerns about the movement of two units towards Delhi.

Choudhary, who was the then DGMO, in an interview to Indian Express has said that the Defence Secretary had summoned him late in the night and said that troops must go back immediately. He later told the Defence Secretary that this was an exercise and that he had already told them to stop and take a different route.

He also stated that the crux of the confusion between the Army and the government was created because of trust deficit distrust between two individuals reigning at that time.

Sources also say that the Cabinet wanted the then Army chief General VK Singh, who had been at loggerheads with the government, to be removed on the same night. But it was Defence Secretary Shashi Kant Sharma who saved his job.

The two units in question were a mechanised infantry, one based in Hisar and a Para unit based in Agra.

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