New Delhi: Vindicating sensational claims made by a leading english daily in the year 2012, a retired army officer Lt. General AK Chaudhary said that two army units (from Agra and Hisar) did make a movement towards Delhi in the month of January in 2012, and this created panic in the government circles.
Adding further he said that the defense secretary of the time Shashi Kant Sharma called him during the midnight and informed that he had just met the top leaders of the UPA II government and they were worried over the latest development.
Chaudhary said that he was ordered to halt the movement and ask for their return on an immediate basis, and file a report with the government in this regard to which he obliged the very next day.
He further added that the troop movement was a part of regular exercise that army conducts and nothing more should be drawn out of it.
He said that due to lack in mature understanding between the two sides (government and army) such rumors have seen the light of the day.
One of the premier national dailies had reported such a movement of army troops in the month of April 2012. However, the present government and senior army officers had refuted the claim.
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