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| Army officers in J&K oppose holding any probe into overt, covert operations | | | Early Times Repot
Jammu, Sept 25: Senior Army functionaries, posted in Jammu and Kashmir are opposed to holding any probe into the overt or covert Army operations being conducted for maintaining peace and for winning the support of people in the state.
Their plea is that any inquiry whether conducted by the CBI or by a Judge of the Supreme Court could lift the lid from various secret operations being carried out by various Army units and different intelligence agencies.
These officers say that since the former Army Chief Gen V K Singh has clarified that whatever money was paid to some ministers was not bribe there is no need for holding a probe. They said that Gen Singh has made it clear that the Army units organized various programmes, including organizing public meetings and rallies where ministers were being asked to preside. And a sizeable amount of money is being spent on such meetings and at times the ministers have no knowledge about the Army's role in spending money on these and other activities.
These Army officers have stated that ever since the rise of insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir many agencies from across the LOC have been active in kicking up trouble for which they recruit people, after paying them heavy sums of money and this very development has forced the Indian Army and various Indian intelligence agencies to spend heavily on various programmes for foiling the enemy's moves.
The officers said that the Army does take the help of politicians for conducting welfare activities under 'Operation Sadbhavana' but it doesn't mean that the Army bribes them. They said that various welfare measures including setting up micro power projects, road connectivity, upgradation of school buildings and adoption of scores of villages for part of the 'Operation Sadbhavana.'
When militancy was at its peak in the state during 1990s and governance was poor, the Army, as a part of its strategy to check militancy and ensure development in far-flung areas, had launched 'Operation Sadbhavana' in 1998.Since then the Army has been helping people of the state via various developmental and welfare projects.
An officer divulged that during the 1990s separatists and sympathisers of militancy used to incite civilians against the Army. "With governance lacking on the one hand and civilians being incited against us, the Army decided to win their hearts and minds through Operation Sadbhavana," he said. Holding an inquiry into some aspects of Army activities could harm the security of the country in general and of Jammu and Kashmir in particular. |
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