Eight former Army Chiefs on Friday rejected Gen (retd) VK Singh’s statement that Army has been paying money to certain Ministers in Jammu & Kashmir since Independence to bring in stability there.
“No funds were ever provided by the Army, to any politicians, political party or any NGO in their tenures and nor would they have allowed that,” the former Army Chiefs said in a joint statement issued here. They are Generals OP Malhotra, SF Rodrigues, Shankar Roychowdhury, Ved Prakash Malik,
S Padamanabhan, NC Vij, JJ Singh and Deepak Kapoor. The statement came against the backdrop of a controversy over Singh’s recent remarks that the Army was paying money to certain Ministers in J&K to bring stability to the State.