Patna,(BiharTimes): Strongly criticizing the use of army in a private function of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on the bank of river Yamuna in Delhi deputy chief minister Tejaswi Prasad Yadav on Wednesday asked the
defence ministry to apologize to all jawans deputed in building pontoon bridges and other related works.
Terming it as an insult to army Tejaswi said that on the one hand the BJP gives certificates on nationalism but on the other it asks army jawans to build pontoon bridges for a private event.

“I am shocked...It would bring down the morale of army,” he said. Teasing the Sangh Parivar he said Art of Living is a big name. Don’t they have their own volunteers? What about the RSS people? They are fit for the job, as they roam about in half pants carrying sticks.

Clarifying that he had nothing to do with the festival Tejaswi said he does not know what equation Prime Minister Narendra Modi has with the spiritual guru. These are matters of faith and he does not want to comment on them.

“My only concern is why the army and not private contractors were called to erect the pontoon bridges," he said adding “it reflects the Narendra Modi government’s attitude. On one end, our soldiers are sacrificing their lives while doing duty on the other, they are being treated like ‘mazdoors’ (labourers).”