BJP Reacts against UPA Govt over Army Chief's age row, ISRO controversy
New Delhi, Jan 30 :Slamming the Centre over the serving Army chief General V K Singh's age controversy and ISRO related issue, main opposition party BJP on Monday said that it has given a clear signal that UPA government has 'lost all sense of balance and grace to govern the country'.
'The UPA government compelled the Army Chief to go to the court to seek redressal on a routine issue. This despite his continuous pleas for correction for the last two decades on the basis of impeccable proofs,' BJP national spokesperson Tarun Vijay said in a statement from Dehradun.
He said the 'humiliation' of the Army Chief General V K Singh' has 'dented' the image of the institution that defends the motherland and 'lowered the morale of the soldiers'.
The BJP Rajya Sabha MP also said that now the 'unsavoury controversy' involving senior scientists from ISRO is 'seriously damaging' reputation of one of the best and highly respectable institution of India.
Mr Vijay alleged that the ISRO controversy, blacklisting top level scientists who had given their best in terms of scientific achievements and then again sending signals to rethink on the decision, gives a 'clear signal that the UPA government has lost all sense of balance and grace to govern the country'.
'The government has failed to uphold the constitutional principles of law, justice and fairness and has systematically ruining the institutions that have held the basic foundations of constitution high.
Damaging the reputation of the Army and the ISRO are just two latest examples of its bankruptcy in governance,' he added.
The controversy over Army Chief's date of birth had taken a new turn when the he took his battle to the court calling it a 'battle of honour' and hoping he would be able to establish his claim that he was born in the year 1951.
In a petition filed by him in the Apex Court, he has asked a question of why his claim that he was born in 1951 and not 1950 has been not considered by the Ministry of Defence.
The UPA Government decision against former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and three other top level space scientists came in the wake of the Antrix-Devas controversial deal in which a private company was given scarce S band spectrum by ISRO allegedly in violation of the set rules.
New Delhi, Jan 30:Slamming the Centre over the serving Army chief General V K Singh's age controversy and ISRO related issue, main opposition party BJP on Monday said that it has given a clear signal that UPA government has 'lost all sense of balance and grace to govern the country'.
'The UPA government compelled the Army Chief to go to the court to seek redressal on a routine issue. This despite his continuous pleas for correction for the last two decades on the basis of impeccable proofs,' BJP national spokesperson Tarun Vijay said in a statement from Dehradun.
He said the 'humiliation' of the Army Chief General V K Singh' has 'dented' the image of the institution that defends the motherland and 'lowered the morale of the soldiers'.The BJP Rajya Sabha MP also said that now the 'unsavoury controversy' involving senior scientists from ISRO is 'seriously damaging' reputation of one of the best and highly respectable institution of India. Mr Vijay alleged that the ISRO controversy, blacklisting top level scientists who had given their best in terms of scientific achievements and then again sending signals to rethink on the decision, gives a 'clear signal that the UPA government has lost all sense of balance and grace to govern the country'.
'The government has failed to uphold the constitutional principles of law, justice and fairness and has systematically ruining the institutions that have held the basic foundations of constitution high. Damaging the reputation of the Army and the ISRO are just two latest examples of its bankruptcy in governance,' he added.
The controversy over Army Chief's date of birth had taken a new turn when the he took his battle to the court calling it a 'battle of honour' and hoping he would be able to establish his claim that he was born in the year 1951.
In a petition filed by him in the Apex Court, he has asked a question of why his claim that he was born in 1951 and not 1950 has been not considered by the Ministry of Defence.
The UPA Government decision against former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and three other top level space scientists came in the wake of the Antrix-Devas controversial deal in which a private company was given scarce S band spectrum by ISRO allegedly in violation of the set rules.
