Not only that, Tipnis said that Vajpayee did not allow
the army to cross the Line of Control.
Tipnis said he had also seen an Army
Chief in those days being"ticked off" like a school-boy by Prime Minister Nehru for his alleged petulance.
When Tipnis threatened to move his wife to this wada the spirits prayed earnestly
and asked him not to do so as Baba would beat them.
Tipnis, who headed the IAF from December 1998 to December 2001,
had said he flew the aircraft solo to send a message that it was safe.
Anil Tipnis PVSM, AVSM,
VM, ADC(born 15 September 1940) served as Air Chief Marshal of the Indian Air Force from 31 December 1998 to 31 December 2001.
After congratulating the team, Tipnis cautioned," The pendulum of Indian emotion should not
move from one of acute scepticism to one of euphoria as this was only the beginning.
Speaking at a seminar'India and China:
After five decades of 1962 war' here, Tipnis also alleged that Nehru had surrendered
national security interests to realise his"ambition" to be a world leader.
In one of them sat Air Chief Marshal A. Y. Tipnis, chief of air staff,
who had told Rajkumar the day before that nothing would make him miss this flight.
Year-old Tipnis, who had a three-year tenure as IAF Chief from December 31,
1998 was commissioned as a fighter pilot in 1960, two years before the hostilities broke out between India and China.