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| Over "political statement", Farooq assails Gen Singh, says won't replace Omar as CM | | | Early Times report
JAMMU, July 16: Aroused to anger by Gen V K Singh's recent remarks that at critical moments the J&K government had lost confidence and had not built on the gains of 2008 polls, union minister Farooq Abdullah today said "as army chief, he is not to make political statements".
"I think an army chief should never make statements. He is there to keep silent and his job is to see that army is alert and ready, he has not to make political statements and I am totally against any army chief or police chief making political statements. Political statements should come from politicians, who can answer in the assembly and who can answer in parliament," he said in an interview with a national TV channel.
Farooq also dismissed as totally baseless the reports that he was going back to the state as chief minister and that his son and J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah would move to the Centre in his place.
"It is totally wrong and baseless. I want to make it very clear through your channel that there is no such thing," he asserted. "That is a wrong notion. The day I handed over this to Omar, I told him very clearly, it is him, the future rests in his hands and he must deliver to the people that I have not been able to deliver," he said.Farooq admitted that he had not been able to deliver what he had promised to the people of the state and claimed that Omar was making up for what he could not do.Asked if he saw Omar capable of addressing the lapses he left uncovered, Farooq replied, "Yes, I am sure he will do that. I am sure."
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