{"id":63786,"date":"2018-05-05T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63786"},"modified":"2018-05-05T16:01:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:01:40","slug":"rss-tried-to-sow-discord-in-indian-army-in-1950-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63786","title":{"rendered":"RSS tried to sow discord in Indian Army in 1950: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Extremist Hindu group RSS\u00a0in 1950 worked to stoke discord within the\u00a0Indian Armyallegedly over the leadership of the first\u00a0Commander-in-Chief K M Cariappa, according to an Indian media report.<\/p>\n<p>The two-paragraph wire states that there was an attempt to assassinate\u00a0Gen Cariappa, whom later became Field Marshal, during a tour of east Punjab and that six people were sentenced to death in connection with the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming Gen Cariappa was resented by Sikh officers, the wire says, &#8220;RSS is capitalising on the north-south split among Army officers, persuading Sikh officers, whom the informant considers treacherous and unreliable, to spread dissension.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, apart from the noting that informant had his biases, the wire seems to offer a contradictory view that &#8220;officers from Travancore, Maharashtra and Madras are invariably loyal to Gen Cariappa&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since RSS leadership then and for decades later was strongly influenced by Maharashtrian brahmins, its motives in opposing Gen Cariappa are not clear.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Courtesy: Times of India<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NEW DELHI: Extremist Hindu group RSS\u00a0in 1950 worked to stoke discord within the\u00a0Indian Armyallegedly over the leadership of the first\u00a0Commander-in-Chief K M Cariappa, according to an Indian media report. The two-paragraph wire states that there was an attempt to assassinate\u00a0Gen Cariappa, whom later became Field Marshal, during a tour of east Punjab and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63790,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63786\/revisions\/63790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}