Freedom First organised a seminar on December 14, 2014 in Mumbai at Godrej Bhavan on the
need to keep the Armed Forces out of politics. It arose out of an article in Freedom First by Ashok
Karnik "Spare the Army”. Gen. (Retd.) V. K. Singh talked about the Army’s role in Kashmir which
had political overtones. It was followed by the news that the Army’s Technical Support Division was
charged with electronic snooping to bring down the J&K Government. Karnik’s paper expresses
concern over the fact that "one by one, institutions are being denigrated in this country, and now
the Army is suspect”. This is a summary of the proceedings of the seminar by Brig. (Retd.) Suresh
Sharma, followed by a presentation by Cdr. Ravindra Pathak. The Seminar was chaired by Brig.
(Retd.) Dharam Prakash.
"Politicians enjoy power without responsibility, bureaucrats wield power without accountability
and military assume responsibility without any direction”. – K. Subramanyam.