AAP targets V K Singh, Khattar over 'insensitive' comments on

The Aam Aadmi Party today targeted Union Minister V K Singh and Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar from the platform of a 'memorial' organised for the ex-serviceman whose suicide has triggered a political row.
AAP ministers Kapil Mishra and Gopal Rai and a number of party MLAs hit out at Singh and Khattar over their "insensitive" comments on the deceased veteran.
"Thankfully, Chandra Shekhar Azad is not alive today otherwise BJP would not have recognised him as a martyr like they are refusing to grant the status of martyrdom to Ram Kishan Grewal (the veteran who committed suicide)," Mishra said.

Union Minister General (retd.) Singh earlier today said that Grewal was a Congress worker, a day after he raised questions about the "mental state" of the 70-year-old ex-serviceman, while the Haryana Chief Minister held that only those who lay down their lives at the border are declared martyrs.
Rai accused the Centre of crushing the protest by first shifting the body of the ex-serviceman out of Delhi and then releasing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was detained by the Delhi Police yesterday.
The event also saw the participation of a former Major ranked officer, who claimed to have been demonstrating in Jantar Mantar for over 500 days demanding the implementation of 'One Rank, One Pension' (OROP).

Major (retd) Rajendra Singh, "I have every right to do so and we will support whoever supports our cause. V K Singh, who does not know his birth date, should refrain from making such insensitive statements." He was referring to the row over Singh's date of birth.