India, Feb. 10 -- Former Army chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane on Tuesday responded publicly for the first time to the controversy surrounding his yet-to-be-published memoir by resharing a clarification issued by his publisher, Penguin Random House India.

"This is the status of the book," General Naravane wrote on X, reposting the publisher's statement.

Penguin Random House India said it holds the exclusive publishing rights to Four Stars of Destiny, General Naravane's memoir, and clarified that the book has not been published in any form.

The publisher said the statement was issued in response to reports claiming that unauthorised copies of the manuscript were circulating.

The clarification comes amid a growing political row that ...