Former Northern Army Commander Lieutenant General DS Hooda submitted a comprehensive vision document on national security to Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday, 31 March.
According to a report by The Hindustan Times, the document emphasised the need for measures to improve internal security and protect India’s borders.
Rahul Gandhi tweeted about the update as well.
The retired Lt Gen Hooda was chosen by the Congress to head its task force on national security earlier this year, on 21 February 2019.
In a video posted on the Congress’ twitter account on Sunday, Lt General Hooda said, “Congress president had constituted a task force which was headed by me on national security. I have prepared a national security strategy document and today submitted it to the Congress president.”
According to anonymous sources cited by The Hindustan Times, Hooda’s report might be released along with Congress’ manifesto on Tuesday, 2 April.
An anonymous Congress leader also told The Hindustan Times that the report’s contents span information on national security including internal challenges like riots to climate change and farmer employment to adapting to technological changes around the world with regards to skill training and modernising of police forces.
Former Army General Was the Mastermind Behind 2016 Surgical Strikes
As the former Northern Command chief of the Army, Hooda had lead the cross-border surgical strikes on terror camps across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September 2016. He had retired from the armed forces shortly after the strikes, in November 2016.
However, The Quint reported last December that Hooda said that the surgical strike was “overhyped and politicised" and “it is not good” when “military operations get politicised.”
(With inputs from The Hindustan Times)
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