New Delhi: Leadership was not about guiding masses, including students to carry out Arson and Violence said the Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat.

He criticized on Thursday the leaders leading the protests against the CAA. The army chief remarks drew flag from the opposition parties, who said that the Army should not get involved in political issues.

The army chief said that the leaders are not those who lead people in inappropriate directions, as we are witnessing in a large number of university and college students, the way they are leading the masses of crowds to carry out Arson and Violence in our cities and towns.

He said in a health summit at New Delhi said that this is not a leadership. He also said that a leader was a person who leads people in the correct direction and gives you the right advice and then ensures you care for people. His comments evoked a sharp response from the opposition parties. There are many ways in which democratic norms are being destroyed in India.

The army chief wading into the political controversy is a new low must be nipped in the bud said former minister Yeshwanth Sinha.