New Delhi: Laying the blame on the Army's doors for the controversy over General VK Singh's age issue, Defence Minister AK Antony today said the row occurred because the force kept two sets of his date of birth for 36 years and maintained there was no civil-military confrontation.
"For 36 years, two branches of the same institution maintained two dates of birth and that is why this controversy," he told reporters here in his first detailed comments on the raging controversy that will be before the Supreme Court in a few days.
"It is unfortunate that it took years together but I don't agree with some of you that it is a civil-military controversy," Antony added. (Read: Army going slow on Govt order)
He suggested that the government had no role to play in the whole issue as this discrepancy was first noticed in 2006 by the Army headquarters and reconciled at that level then and later in 2008 by two respective chiefs.
"For 36 years, two branches of the same institution maintained two dates of birth and that is why this controversy," he told reporters here in his first detailed comments on the raging controversy that will be before the Supreme Court in a few days.
"It is unfortunate that it took years together but I don't agree with some of you that it is a civil-military controversy," Antony added. (Read: Army going slow on Govt order)
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