Army planned a coup against Rajiv Gandhi regime says Former Army Commander

Former Army commander of the Western Command Lt General PN Hoon has made shocking revelations. Hoon claimed that the Indian Army hatched a plan to coup Rajiv Gandhi government in 1987.Narrating the sequence of events during a farewell function in 1987, the Lt Gen in his book writes how Giani Zail Singh had blamed Rajiv Gandhi for corruption and 1984 anti-Sikh riots. In the book, Hoon said that Zail Singh didn't execute coup plan as he believed that the power would shift to the armed forces.