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Army Chief’s age row sensitive issue: PM
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New Delhi, January 19
As a controversy rages on over the date of birth of the Army Chief General VK Singh, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today termed it as a sensitive issue.

“It is a sensitive issue. I do not want to comment,” said the Prime Minister on the sidelines of a function to launch the book The Tribune 130 Years: A Witness to History.

He was asked by mediapersons if the government has formulated its plan.

Meanwhile, sources in the government said the establishment was unhappy at the Chief’s move to file a plea in the apex court. The Army Chief has filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the government that his date of birth on military records be treated as May 10, 1951 and not 1950.

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