{"id":12196,"date":"2017-12-07T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=12196"},"modified":"2017-12-07T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T11:55:00","slug":"keep-military-out-of-politics-rawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/keep-military-out-of-politics-rawat\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep military out of politics: Rawat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nArmy chief Gen Bipin Rawat today said there was a politicisation of the armed forces and the military &#8220;should be somehow&#8221; kept away from politics. It was essential that the military stayed away from politics for a vibrant democracy, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The military should be somehow kept out of politics. Of late, we have been seeing that politicisation of the military has been taking place. I think we operate in a very secular environment. We have a vibrant democracy&#8230; the military should stay far away from the polity,&#8221; the Army Chief said while speaking at a seminar organised by the United Service Institution.<\/p>\n<p>In the &#8220;good old days&#8221;, the norm was that women and politics were not discussed in the forces, he said. &#8220;However, these subjects are gradually &#8216;inching&#8217; their way into the discourse and this should be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever issue (of) linking any military establishment or military personnel where political entity comes in then&#8230; that is best avoided,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Army chief Gen Bipin Rawat today said there was a politicisation of the armed forces and the military &#8220;should be somehow&#8221; kept away from politics. It was essential that the military stayed away from politics for a vibrant democracy, he said. &#8220;The military should be somehow kept out of politics. Of late, we [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12198,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12196\/revisions\/12198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}