‘Mind your business’, says Chidambaram to Army Chief over CAA protests remark

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday asked Army Chief Bipin Rawat to limit himself to his job after the latter questioned the leadership behind the anti-citizenship act protests, which have turned violent in several places across the country. “The DGP (director general of police) and army general are being asked to support the government. It is a shame. Let me appeal to General Rawat, you head the army and mind your business,” Chidambaram said while addressing a Maha Rally of the Congress in Kerala's capital of Thiruvananthapuram. “It's not the business of the army to tell politicians what we should do, just as it's not our business to tell you how to fight a war,” he added. General Bipin Rawat had on Thursday slammed the protests against the amended citizenship law, saying leaders are not those who “lead people in inappropriate directions”.