Manish Tewari says 2012 report on army movement without notifying govt is true

Manish Tewari has said the development reported by Indian Express then in April about the January incident was "unfortunate but true".

"I am not getting into an argument. All I am saying is that to the best of my knowledge that story was correct," he told media at a book launch in Delhi.

He said: "At that time, I used to serve in the Standing Committee of Defence. And it's unfortunate, but the story was true. The story was correct," he said.

Junior External Affairs Minister V K Singh, who was the then Army chief, said Tewari has no work now, as he slammed him for his remarks.

The Indian Express report  of April 4, 2012 was headlined ‘The January night Raisina Hill was spooked: Two key Army units moved towards Delhi without notifying Govt’.

Tewari later told Indian Express after the book launch: “I was a part of the Standing Committee on Defence and I recall that in April of 2012, after the story appeared in The Indian Express, there was a briefing of the committee done with respect to the story. During the briefing, the Defence ministry maintained the stand that the government had officially taken. Privately, the officials involved in the briefing confirmed to me that the story ‘may just be true’.”