Bengaluru: Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor any other NDA leader wanted to politicise armed forces and there was nothing wrong in talking about the political will giving freedom to the forces to take action as they deem fit. At an informal interactive session with intellectuals, academicians and young thinkers in Bengaluru, she said the opposition had been constantly coming up with the allegation that armed forces were being politicised.

"Nobody wants to politicise the armed forces, not particularly myself or prime minister or anybody from here (government). We dont want to politicise the armed forces, she said.