Some of the highest decorated officers of the Indian armed forces have issued a statement, asking Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to apologise for his recent comment, stating our armed forces could be made redundant.
Addressing a rally in Tamil Nadu, Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday: “If you use India’s labourers, India’s farmers, India’s workers, you will not need the army, navy and air force to be standing over there. China will not have the guts to come inside.”
The statement says we have the highest regards for Indian farmers, workers and labourers. They are the core strength of our economy. However, the armed forces of India are also a very dedicated, highly trained professional outfit…which can be casually undermined by irresponsible leaders only at a grave cost of lurking danger to the security of our motherland.
“The statement about the redundancy of Indian armed forces would’ve been ignored, being naive and far from truth, just like the imaginary Nehruvian utopia that failed us against China in 1962, but seeing the misleading affect it could have on the future generations of our country, we have decided to put things in current perspective.”
Making demeaning statements like the Indian army, navy and the airforce not only seriously demoralise our men in uniform, but are also derogatory to the armed forces of the nation.
The armed forces officers have demanded an apology from the Gandhi scion. The statement was signed by following:
Lt Gen Gurmeet Singh, Vice-Admiral Shekhar Sinha, Air Marshall SP Singh, Air Marshal PK Roy, Air Marshal RC Bajpai, Lt Genn Sanjay Kulkarni, Lt Gen Arvind Sharma, Lt Gn Arun Sahni, Lt Gen Himalaya Singh, Lt Gen Ashok KUmar Choudhary, Lt Gen KH Singh, Lt Gen Nitin Kohli, Maj Gen GD Bakshi, Maj Gen Dhruv Katoch, Maj Gen SP Singh, Maj Gen PK Sehgal, Maj Gen Sanjay Soi, Maj Gen SN Kashid, Maj Gen SK Kalra, Air Vice Marshal PK Srivastava.
