D S Hooda, former Northern Army commander and main architect of the 2016 “surgical strikes”, will head a Congress task force on national security.
Congress sources said party president Rahul Gandhi met Hooda and discussed the modalities of the panel. “The Congress president is setting up a ‘task force on national security’ to prepare a vision paper for the country,” a party source said.
The source also said that Hooda will lead the panel and prepare the paper in consultation with a select group of experts