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NEW DELHI: Parliamentary affairs curate Kiren Rijiju connected Friday defended the Centre’s determination to support the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat study connected the 1962 India-China warfare classified, arsenic a governmental enactment erupted successful Parliament implicit Leader of absorption Rahul Gandhi being stopped from quoting the “unpublished memoir” of erstwhile Army Chief General MM Naravane.In a station connected X, Rijiju described the study arsenic a delicate defence papers and said it should not beryllium utilized for governmental purposes. He wrote, “Our Govt is led by a matured leader. Since 1962, the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Commission study has remained secret. It indicted the Nehru Govt for the humiliating decision astatine the hands of the Chinese PLA. Our Govt has ne'er declassified it arsenic a defence substance that can't beryllium utilized arsenic a governmental tools.
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The Henderson Brooks-Bhagat study was prepared by Lieutenant General Henderson Brooks and Brigadier General Premindra Singh Bhagat and was commissioned by past Acting Army Chief General JN Chaudhuri to reappraisal the Indian Army’s operations during the 1962 warfare with China, reported ANI. The study continues to stay classified.Rijiju besides reshared a station from 2024, successful which helium highlighted India’s borderline infrastructure development.
The minister’s comments travel a enactment that erupted aft Rahul Gandhi attempted to punctuation from the “unpublished memoir” of erstwhile Army Chief General MM Naravane during the Motion of Thanks connected the President’s Address successful the Lok Sabha.The Congress person was referring to the 2020 India-China subject standoff successful eastbound Ladakh erstwhile helium cited the memoir, drafting beardown objections from BJP members. During his remarks, Gandhi accused PM Modi of “not fulfulling responsibility” during the 2020 clashes on the Line of Actual Control.Gandhi continued to rise the contented of the August 2020 India-China confrontation but was repeatedly interrupted by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and aboriginal by Home Minister Amit Shah, who asked him not to punctuation from immoderate unverified source. General Naravane was the Army Chief astatine the clip of the Ladakh standoff. The excerpts cited by Gandhi were precocious published by an online portal.
