Comparing army chief to General Dyer is sad: Navy chief
June 08, 2017 21:54
Comparing Army chief Bipin Rawat to General Dyer, who had earned notoriety for ordering the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, is a "sad comparison", his naval counterpart Admiral Sunil Lanba said today.
Academician Partha Chatterjee, in a piece published on a news website, had drawn comparison between Rawat and Dyer after the former commended Major Leetul Gogoi's action of using a civilian as a human shield in Kashmir.
"It is a sad comparison and is uncalled for," Lanba said.
On April 13, 1919, Dyer had ordered firing on unarmed people gathered at the Jallianwala Baug in Amritsar.
The Navy chief was speaking on the sidelines of an flag-in ceremony of Indian Naval Mountaineering Team.
In an interview, Rawat had also said that the Indian Army is fully ready for a "two-and-a-half front (China, Pakistan and internal security requirements simultaneously) war".
To this, Lanba sought to buttress the point saying, "The Indian armed forces are always ready for any contingency."
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