The BJP should distance itself from V.K.Singh pronto. Regardless of the merit in these latest allegations, it is a report from the Army that is being debated. The BJP should not be picking V.K.Singh over the army or over other Generals including the present CoAS and the man most likely to succeed him, Lt.Gen. Dalbir Singh Suhag, both of whom came under fire from V.K.Singh. Does the BJP want to risk alienating a present chief and a future chief by taking sides in this matter? The BJP has no dog in this fight, better to let V.K. Singh go his own way. He is quite clearly controversial. As as been pointed out earlier, the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee sacked a Naval Chief on the charge of insubordination. Best to leave this well alone.
I think it was probably because it was a case of hearsay and probably not provable and that was why the RM asked the Chief whether he wanted to pursue it because it would be his testimony alone that would be used & whether it might be best not to wash dirty linen in public. After all the man against whom the allegation was made was also a recently retired high ranking officer.
Yaar...just look at the setup of Intelligence agencies
1. Intelligence Bureau - Reports in to the Ministry of Home Affairs. The IB operates and has its own network. More so in the border areas. This is headed by an IPS officer. Let me assure you, the capabilities this organisation has to intercept information is not funny.
2. RAW - Reports directly to the PMO. Well funded and operates the ETS(The elint arm). Note, the Elint arm reports in to RAW. Again the Elint arm is headed either by an IAS or IPS cadre officer
3. DMI - The main intelligence arm of the Army. Compared to the resources available to IB and RAW, this is a baby. Anyways, to further drill it down and show this is crap. Post Kargil, most of the power is with the DIA. Why is this important? Most of the communications (Elint) which was earlier part of the DMI was moved to the DIA. DIA reports to MoD not Army HQ.
Now in all this, there are only 2 things possible
1. If the Army chief was indeed involved, he should have been fired. No questions asked. But he was not. Why? Did the other organisations not pick up a problem? If they did not, we have a serious problem in intelligence capabilities.
2. If the Army chief was indeed involved and the GoI did not act. Why did it not act then? Why now?
this is the simple reason, why I practically refuse to believe that 3 of the premier intelligence agencies with all the elint capabilities int he country failed to monitor the activities of a army chief. that too related to a state like J&K. Btw, all activities of all military heads are tracked.
Which is why I say, this is rubbish.