AAP demands sacking of V K Singh

New Delhi, Aug 18 (PTI) In the wake of Army Chief GeneralDalbir Singh alleging victimisation by Union minister V KSingh when he was heading the army, AAP today said theminister has now become a "national liability" and demandedhis sacking. The party said Dalbir Singh’s claims raise seriousconcerns and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should addressthese. "A person who intended to create a friction in the army,whose track record as an army chief was mired in controversieslike his age row, who set up a parallel branch for snoopingon ministers, one who compared Dalits with dogs while being aminister…There were reports that he also wanted to engineera coup. "Such a person had become a political liability for BJP,but now he has become a national liablity. He should beimmediately sacked," AAP leader Raghav Chadha said. In an unprecedented step of a serving Army Chief taking onone of his predecessors, General Dalbir Singh has alleged thathe was "sought to be victimised" by Gen (retd) V K Singh, nowa Union minister, with the sole purpose of denying himpromotion as Army Commander. Gen Dalbir Singh made the allegation in an affidavit filedby him in his personal capacity while responding to a petitionmoved by Lt Gen (retd) Ravi Dastane who had alleged"favouritism" during his selection as Army Commander. Post retirement, V K Singh joined BJP and was elected toLok Sabha from Ghaziabad. He has since been a minister ofstate in the Modi government. Chadha said that the incumbent army chief’s affidavitposes more questions on why has the Prime Minister still kepthim in the government. "We demand a probe into the matter," he said. AAP’s national spokesperson Dilip Pandey said the Centre,in its affidavit to the Supreme Court, had given a clean chitto Dalbir Singh, but justice has still not been met out tohim. "It was the Centre that gave Dalbir Singh a clean chit inits affidavit before the Supreme Court. But it failed to takeany action against V K Singh who perpetrated it," he said. PTIPRSC