Paying ministers nothing new in J&K, former Army chief Gen VK Singh says

NEW DELHI: Reacting to accusations that he had funded a J&K politician to topple chief minister Omar Abdullah's government, former Army chief General VK Singh on Monday said those who levelled these allegations were anti-nationals as Army had to pay ministers in the border state "to bring people together".

In an interview to Times Now, Singh said "paying ministers" was nothing new in J&K. "It has been happening since independence and everybody would have known about this. It is not something invented by V K Singh. Funding ministers is to get people together in Kashmir," he said.



Singh also said he didn't consider those as patriotic who said that Army was trying to engineer a coup in Delhi and later said it was trying to topple the J&K government.

"What has been done has been done with highly motivated agenda," Gen Singh said, adding that he has filed an RTI application for a copy of the "secret" report and laughed off allegations that Army had set up the Technical Support Division, a counter-intelligence unit, to destabilize the J&K government.

"This is most serious and ludicrous charge anyone can put. Reports talking about toppling the government in New Delhi and then using Rs 1.5 crore to topple the government in J&K," he said, and added that the J&K CM was aware of all the activities and funding of a state minister by the Army to carry out certain tasks to bring harmony in the state.

"He knows about the type of stability work that has been done... what he is saying now is purely motivated," the former Army chief said and alleged that he was in league with people who had an agenda inimical to the interest of the country.

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