FINANCE Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Thursday said the government did not have any issues with former Army chief General MM Naravane, whose unpublished book Four Stars of Destiny was held aloft by Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi to target the government over a military face-off with China in August 2020.
In an interview to The Indian Express, Sitharaman said, “When I had a short stint as Defence Minister, I knew General Naravane, a very respected senior general. Why will the government of India have any problem with a General who’s been made the Chief of Army Staff under our period. We respect him. We have no issues about him.”Sitharaman was the Union Defence Minister during NDA’s first term from September 2017 to May 2019.