CAA protests: Army chief slams students, Opposition cries 'politicisation'

Opposition has accused Rawat of violating both regulations and tradition, as the army's basic rulebook disallows army personnel from commenting on a political question without govt sanction

Army chief General Bipin Rawat, who will retire on December 31, unless the government elevates him to the newly-created post of ‘chief of defence staff’, has drawn charges of political partisanship by criticising student leaders involved in protests against the new Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA.
 
Addressing a gathering in New Delhi, he said: “Leaders are those who lead people in the right direction. Leaders are not those who lead people in inappropriate directions, as we are witnessing in a large number of university and college students, the way they are leading in masses of crowds to carry out