{"id":890,"date":"2021-07-03T10:28:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2021-07-03T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:58:18","slug":"use-your-energy-to-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-sack-vk-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/use-your-energy-to-supreme-court-rejects-plea-to-sack-vk-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Use Your Energy To&#8230;&#8221;: Supreme Court Rejects Plea To Sack VK Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL (public interest litigation) seeking to remove Union Minister VK Singh over alleged anti-Army statements he had made on February 7; the statements were made with reference to the border stand-off with China along the LAC.<\/p>\n<p>The court dismissed the PIL saying it was for the Prime Minister to remove a minister, and asked the petitioner to focus on helping the country rather than file such petitions.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner &#8211; activist Chandrasekaran Ramasamy had argued that the comments by VK Singh &#8211; a retired four-star General in the Indian Army &#8211; were in breach of his oath as a minister and had weakened India&#8217;s global authority, as well as offering China a justification for its transgressions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/general-vk-singh-pm-must-decide-supreme-court-dismisses-plea-against-general-vk-singh-2477514?amp=1&amp;akamai-rum=off\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333399;\">&gt;&gt;Read More<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi:\u00a0 The Supreme Court has dismissed a PIL (public interest litigation) seeking to remove Union Minister VK Singh over alleged anti-Army statements he had made on February 7; the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}