NEW DELHI, Mar 29 : Asking Army Chief Gen VK Singh to go on forced leave is one of the options before the Government, which is more than upset over the leakage of his letter to the Prime Minister projecting the country’s defence preparedness in poor light, reports PTI.
A minister, who declined to be identifed, said as of now there are only two options before the Government “tolerate the Army Chief till his retirement due in the next two months or force him to go on leave”.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is upset over the Army chief’s action but the government was not thinking of any drastic step as it was not seeing the issue in terms of an officer but in terms of an office.
“No sacking” was the refrain of another senior minister, who said that the General has violated Army discipline by writing directly to the Prime Minister and not through the Defence Minister.