{"id":318220,"date":"2019-12-26T09:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T09:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318220"},"modified":"2019-12-26T09:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T09:14:37","slug":"leaders-are-not-those-who-lead-masses-in-arson-violence-army-chief-general-bipin-rawat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/leaders-are-not-those-who-lead-masses-in-arson-violence-army-chief-general-bipin-rawat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leaders are not those who lead masses in arson, violence\u2019: Army Chief General Bipin Rawat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-318222 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"511\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat.jpg 673w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/bipin-rawat-553x420.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/>Army chief Bipin Rawat on Thursday criticized the violence during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rallies across the country, saying \u2018leaders are not those who lead masses in arson and violence\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking at an\u00a0event in Delhi,\u00a0Rawat said, \u201cLeaders are those who lead people in the right direction, not those leaders who lead people in inappropriate directions. As we are witnessing in a large number of university and colleges students, the way they are leading masses of crowds to carry out arson and violence in cities and towns. This is not leadership.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His comments came at a time when enormous protests have rocked university campuses across the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Army Chief&#8217;s comments were criticized by opposition parties like the Congress, with Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said on twitter, &#8221; I agree General Saheb but also Leaders are not those who allow their followers to indulge in Genocide of Communal Violence. Do you agree with me General Saheb?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi also hit out at General Rawat by saying, \u201cLeadership is knowing the limits of one\u2019s office. It is about understanding the idea of civilian supremacy &amp; preserving the integrity of the institution that you head.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army chief Bipin Rawat on Thursday criticized the violence during anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rallies across the country, saying \u2018leaders are not those who lead masses in arson and violence\u2019. Speaking at an\u00a0event in Delhi,\u00a0Rawat said, \u201cLeaders are those who lead people in the right direction, not those leaders who lead people in inappropriate directions. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10559],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318225,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318220\/revisions\/318225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}