Reports of misuse of army intelligence unit 'politically' motivated: Gen. Singh

Former chief of army staff General V.K. Singh on Saturday strongly rejected allegations that he had misused a technical services division (TSD) created by him when he was army chief to unseat the National Conference-Congress-led government in Jammu and Kashmir, or to target senior army officers, including present army chief General Bikram Singh.

In a hard hitting and aggressive interview given exclusively to ANI, General Singh described as laughable reports appearing in the media that he had misused the TSD to topple the Omar Abdullah-led Government in Jammu and Kashmir.

"There are allegations that I was trying to topple the J and K govt. I should put out an ad: Government Girana Hai to contact me, (Contact me if you want to topple the government). It's laughable," said General Singh.

"What the J and K CM (Chief Minister) is saying is motivated and is his personal agenda,"General Singh added.

"If this unit (TSD) was allowed to function properly,the cross border terrorism you are seeing today, would not have happened," he further stated.

"Anyone who says that this (TSD) is a private army, doesn't know anything about the armed forces," General Singh said.

Emphatically stating that he would wholeheartedly welcome a White Paper on the entire controversy that was being linked to him, he said: "There are a lot of probes going on, what has happened to them? This is an orchestrated campaign against me by a few people."

"This is very interesting. I have been accused of toppling the Indian Government, and now the Jammu and Kashmir Government. It is hogwash," General Singh said, adding that he was being targetted because he had shared the dais with BJP leader Narendra Modi at an ex-servicemen's rally in Rewari, Haryana last Sunday.

He said that one particular Indian daily was running a motivated campaign against him at someone's behest.

"This(TSD) unit was totally a human intelligence unit. Anyone ascribing anything else to it, is only indulging in vilification," General Singh said.

"All that the army has done in J and K is to stabilise. There is an agenda now, because elections are coming," the former army chief said.