Maybe I lose something in doing so and so be it, but I am not going to read any further of what you write the moment you equate an incarcerated member of an oppressed minority community with a regime-backed public influencer from the majority community who has all the impunity in this world. Discourse is a product of material conditions and structural context. If you discount that basic fact, then you have an understanding of neither history, nor politics. So enjoy your own distorted stream of consciousness.

So what if he is a police officer? He is literally the chief of a force that’s categorically tasked with guarding the India-China border. Why should he not talk about defence preparedness, which directly affects how his units respond to cross-border threats? Anyway, ITBP chiefs, like all CAPFs (except the AR), have always been senior IPS officers. In fact, that this is coming from the ITBP indicates a problem in how operational resources are allocated between regular and paramilitary border forces. A journalist should ideally probe deeper into his remarks, but nai pehle inko chup kara dete hai.