A Twitter user identifying himself as a ‘veteran jawan’ accused former Western Army Commander Lt Gen. K.J. Singh (retd) of keeping a platoon for household chores, among other charges.
New Delhi: Army veteran Lt Gen. K.J. Singh (retd) Monday got into a Twitter spat with a user identifying himself as “veteran jawan”, who alleged that Singh had treated jawans as “slaves” and kept a platoon at his home for performing household chores while he was in service.
Singh, a former Western Army Commander, was recently made a state information commissioner by the Haryana government.
The handle, @OROP_for_JAWANS, further alleged that Singh did not check the downgrade of jawans during successive pay commissions while he was in service and also faced a CBI inquiry on serious charges.
Singh refuted the allegations, saying that he never had a platoon, and that he was actually most frugal in his approach.
“I never had platoon & in one secret audit created by my Corps Cdr, I was found 2 b most frugal in running flag staff house. Don’t really need ur certification as I still care & work 4 Jawans. Jai Hind (sic),” he tweeted.
Veteran Jawan@OROP_for_JAWANSGeneral sahab your tweet seems to be the effect of Italian waters, cause you yourself have treated jawans as your slaves and kept platoon at your residence during service, to do household chores @officerslave @foujiJAWANunion @ashwaryas @mananbhattnavy
Lt Gen K J Singh@kayjay34350I never had platoon & in one secret audit created by my Corps Cdr, I was found 2 b most frugal in running flag staff house. Don’t really need ur certification as I still care & work 4 Jawans. Jai Hind.
o the Haryana government, he had got the government to accept junior commissioned officers as Grade 2 and gazetted officers and overcame opposition to do so.
“Martyr JCO’s daughter became BDO first time. My Dharma, I work 4 men. U seem 2 follow- destroy officers reputation. Even this thread started on logic & policy. U made it personal. Reduce toxicity(sic),” Singh wrote.
Veteran Jawan@OROP_for_JAWANSYou were a general and now you are an ESM or a Veteran so am I. I am not some 16 yr old jawan trainee.
Let’s be equals now
Lt Gen K J Singh@kayjay34350As Advisor,got Govt 2 accept JCOs as Gde 2& Gazzetted offr overcoming opposition. Martyr JCO’s daughter became BDO first time. My Dharma, I work 4 men. U seem 2 follow- destroy officers reputation. Even this thread started on logic & policy. U made it personal. Reduce toxicity.
ThePrint tried to contact Lt Gen. Singh through calls and messages, but all he said was he’s “away on family holiday”.
The person behind the Twitter handle later identified himself to ThePrint as veteran junior warrant officer (Indian Air Force) Nalin Talwar, national spokesperson of the Saabka Sainik Sangharsh Committee, an organisation fighting for soldiers’ rights.
Asked why he chose to be anonymous on Twitter, Talwar said it is because the handle was created to fight for one rank, one pension for jawans as “no one cared or spoke about them”.