Today, dinner get-together at Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar’s residence that led Prime Minister Narendra Modi to think of ‘Pakistani interfence’ in Gujarat elections, former Army General Deepak Kapoor has said that domestic politics was not discussed at the meeting at all. “Only India-Pakistan ties,” he said.
Talking to The Indian Express, Kapoor clarified that the dinner on December 6 was attended by 20 odd people– former dipplomats, defence personnels– who had served in Pakistan at some point in time.
“Yes, I was part of the meeting and we discussed nothing more than India-Pakistan relations,” Kapoor told the newspaper.
The meet was held during the visit of Pakistan’s former foreign affairs minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri to India.
According to the report, apart from Kapoor, former foreign minister K Natwar Singh, former diplomats Salman Haidar, TCA Raghavan, Sharat Sabharwal, K Shankar Bajpai and Chinmaya Gharekhan also were present at the dinner among others. Bajpai, Raghavan and Sabharwal had served as Indian High Commissioners to Pakistan.
Former PM Manmohan Singh and former vice-president Hamid Ansari were also present at the dinner.
But Why Ex Army Chief supporting the narrative which pedaled by Congress Party
In the Adarsh Sacam Ex Army Chief Deepak Kapoor was also allegedly involved along with the corrupt congress ministers. This could have been the reason and this will expose that Deepak Kapoor’s involvement with the Congress Party in at corruption committed by them.
This was the article published on the involvement of Ex Army Chief Deepak in Adarsh Scam:
Two former army chiefs — General NC Vij and General Deepak Kapoor — and several other retired military officials have been named by a high-level inquiry committee appointed by the defence ministry for their alleged complicity in the Adarsh Housing Society scam in Mumbai.
The probe panel also mentioned three retired Lt Generals — GS Sihota, Tejinder Singh and Shantanu Choudhary — and four Major Generals — AR Kumar, VS Yadav, TK Kaul and RK Hooda — in its over 100-page report, citing a range of violations and irregularities.
The apartments in a tony part of town in Mumbai were meant for the families of Kargil heroes. But army officers, politicians and bureaucrats were allegedly alloted flats in violation of the rules.
Seen as a symbol of corruption, the Adarsh scam had kicked up a huge political storm after it surfaced in 2010, leading to the resignation of then Congress chief minister Ashok Chavan.
Sources said the defence ministry report is a validation of the findings of a Court of Inquiry by the Army in 2011 which had probed the roles of a number of military officials in the scam.
According to the findings of the probe, Gen Vij appeared to have provided a “protective umbrella” towards efforts in facilitating the “alienation of the land in question”.
It said at no stage did he raise any questions on the matter, nor did he flag any security concerns during the annual security review as the Army Commander or otherwise.
The report said it was known that he had a “vested interest” in the matter, the sources said.
About Gen Kapoor, the report said though he was not directly connected with the case, he was not “well advised” in accepting a membership of the society, adding that that it did not seem he had adequately weighed the implications of accepting a flat in the complex.
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Earlier, Modi said (former Congress minister) Mani Shankar Aiyar had called him “neech” (vile) a day after the alleged meeting of Pakistani leaders with top Congressmen.
“There were media reports yesterday about a meeting at Mani Shankar Aiyar’s house. It was attended by Pakistan’s high commissioner, Pakistan’s former foreign minister, India’s former vice president and former prime minister Manmohan Singh,” Modi said.
The meeting at Aiyar’s house carried on for almost three hours, Modi said.
“The next day, Mani Shankar Aiyar said Modi was ‘neech’. This is a serious matter,” he said.
Modi added that Rafiq had backed Ahmed Patel as the next chief minister of Gujarat.
“(On one side) Pakistan Army’s former DG is interfering in Gujarat’s election, on the other side, Pakistan’s people are holding a meeting at Mani Shankar Aiyar’s house,” he said.
“And, after that meeting, people of Gujarat, backward communities, poor people and Modi were insulted. Don’t you think such events raise doubts,” Modi asked.
This is not the first time that the BJP has alleged Pakistan’s interest in India’s domestic politics. In 2015, when voting was going on in Bihar, Party’s national president Amit Shah had said that if his party lost the elections “by mistake… crackers will be burst in Pakistan”.
