INDIA
The MLA from south Kashmir's Kulgam also questioned Army chief General Bipin Rawat's remarks defending Major Leetul Gogoi who had used a Kashmiri man as a 'human shield' against stone pelters last month.
CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami today urged the Centre not to use the Army "as an instrument to further its political agenda" and to keep it "away from politics".
The MLA from south Kashmir's Kulgam also questioned Army chief General Bipin Rawat's remarks defending Major Leetul Gogoi who had used a Kashmiri man as a 'human shield' against stone pelters last month.
"I advise the Government of India to keep the Army out of politics. Whatever your agenda is, whichever way you see Kashmir and its people, stop using the Army as an instrument to take forward a political agenda. It is not good for the Army and the institutions of the country," he told reporters.
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