Sack 'Incompetent Joker' Parrikar, Amarinder Tells PM Modi

Chandigarh: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to sack defence minister Manohar Parrikar "in the interest of the morale of the Indian Army, if the latter fails to quit immediately." "You cannot allow such an incompetent jokers to continue to hold such a sensitive portfolio," Amarinder told Modi in a strongly worded statement issued here on Tuesday. He condemned the defense minister's diktat downgrading Army ranks as compared to their counterparts in the civil administration.

Reacting to a report in a section of the media that a new defense ministry letter has downgraded the status of military officers across ranks, Amarinder charged Parrikar with meticulously and shamelessly chipping away at the morale of the Indian Army in order to satiate vested bureaucratic

interests.

According to the report, a colonel, who was until now equivalent to a director, has now been downgraded to a rank equivalent to a joint director. Similarly, a director-ranked civilian officer has been equated to a brigadier, and so on. Expressing shock at this evident 'mischief-plus' by bureaucrats, with the ruling political establishment playing into their hands, Captain urged Modi to personally intervene and have the ministry's totally unacceptable and unjustified decision revoked without a minute's delay. "You can imagine what the effect of low morale will be on the country's strength against its enemies," the Punjab Congress chief warned the Prime Minister, asking, "who will bear the responsibility for the Army losing its morale?" He said, "You will be squarely responsible for any loss of morale. Are you and your government prepared to take the onus of putting India's strong Army on the path of self-destruction, which could eventually lead to the nation's destruction."

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