<p>In the wake of Army Chief General Dalbir Singh alleging victimisation by Union minister V K Singh when he was heading the army, AAP on Thursday said the minister has now become a “national liability” and demanded his sacking.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The party said Dalbir Singh’s claims raise serious concerns and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should address these.<br /><br />“A person who intended to create a friction in the army, whose track record as an army chief was mired in controversies like his age row, who set up a parallel branch for snooping on ministers, one who compared Dalits with dogs while being a minister...There were reports that he also wanted to engineer a coup.<br /><br />“Such a person had become a political liability for BJP, but now he has become a national liablity. He should be immediately sacked,” AAP leader Raghav Chadha said.<br /><br />In an unprecedented step of a serving Army Chief taking on one of his predecessors, General Dalbir Singh has alleged that he was “sought to be victimised” by Gen (retd) V K Singh, now a Union minister, with the sole purpose of denying him promotion as Army Commander.<br /><br />Gen Dalbir Singh made the allegation in an affidavit filed by him in his personal capacity while responding to a petition moved by Lt Gen (retd) Ravi Dastane who had alleged “favouritism” during his selection as Army Commander.<br /><br />Post retirement, V K Singh joined BJP and was elected to Lok Sabha from Ghaziabad. He has since been a minister of state in the Modi government.<br /><br />Chadha said that the incumbent army chief’s affidavit poses more questions on why has the Prime Minister still kept him in the government.<br /><br />“We demand a probe into the matter,” he said.<br /><br />AAP’s national spokesperson Dilip Pandey said the Centre, in its affidavit to the Supreme Court, had given a clean chit to Dalbir Singh, but justice has still not been met out to him.<br /><br />“It was the Centre that gave Dalbir Singh a clean chit in its affidavit before the Supreme Court. But it failed to take any action against V K Singh who perpetrated it,” he said.<br /></p>
<p>In the wake of Army Chief General Dalbir Singh alleging victimisation by Union minister V K Singh when he was heading the army, AAP on Thursday said the minister has now become a “national liability” and demanded his sacking.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The party said Dalbir Singh’s claims raise serious concerns and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should address these.<br /><br />“A person who intended to create a friction in the army, whose track record as an army chief was mired in controversies like his age row, who set up a parallel branch for snooping on ministers, one who compared Dalits with dogs while being a minister...There were reports that he also wanted to engineer a coup.<br /><br />“Such a person had become a political liability for BJP, but now he has become a national liablity. He should be immediately sacked,” AAP leader Raghav Chadha said.<br /><br />In an unprecedented step of a serving Army Chief taking on one of his predecessors, General Dalbir Singh has alleged that he was “sought to be victimised” by Gen (retd) V K Singh, now a Union minister, with the sole purpose of denying him promotion as Army Commander.<br /><br />Gen Dalbir Singh made the allegation in an affidavit filed by him in his personal capacity while responding to a petition moved by Lt Gen (retd) Ravi Dastane who had alleged “favouritism” during his selection as Army Commander.<br /><br />Post retirement, V K Singh joined BJP and was elected to Lok Sabha from Ghaziabad. He has since been a minister of state in the Modi government.<br /><br />Chadha said that the incumbent army chief’s affidavit poses more questions on why has the Prime Minister still kept him in the government.<br /><br />“We demand a probe into the matter,” he said.<br /><br />AAP’s national spokesperson Dilip Pandey said the Centre, in its affidavit to the Supreme Court, had given a clean chit to Dalbir Singh, but justice has still not been met out to him.<br /><br />“It was the Centre that gave Dalbir Singh a clean chit in its affidavit before the Supreme Court. But it failed to take any action against V K Singh who perpetrated it,” he said.<br /></p>