Sending an interesting blog written by my daughter this evening. Quite different from the one written by an other Army Brat in the TOI this morning. Please click on the link below.
Satish Bahri
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Dear Veteran
Put aside for a brief moment the wave of OROP that has swept the country.
Put aside the lessons learnt about how little your country men actually know about the Armed Forces. Do not not dwell on what was promised & that which was eventually offered.
Cast aside the pain of how you were talked down to by people who know nothing about your lives & you. Easy with keyboards clicking ‘respect’ & ‘disrespect’ one day to the the next. Snug safe & smug with limited information.
What hope of understanding from people who do not even know that successive governments over six decades have fought disabled soldiers in court ?! Don’t waste your time explaining how the Babu has appropriated Rs.22000 crores AND it is reviewed EVERY year too. The tax paying citizen not being any wiser…..
Those who grudge your medical facilities don’t know they have been paying for the Babu’s Sloan Kettering & other such like medical centres bills for years.
Ignore the accusation that you are being unreasonable & demanding – when all you are asking for is a restoration of your rights…..
Why not use this rage that has overwhelmed you ?
The realisation that offering your life is just not good enough for them.
( Remember you get ‘free’ rum )
Take a deep breath & focus on the goal ahead. And work on how it is to be achieved. Identify the road block & how you are going to overcome it.
What brought about the degradation & de scaling of your service conditions right after a victorious war? Who brought it about ?
Who benefited over the years from your slide ? Who is in control of your lives that are willingly sacrificed – no modern equipment not adequate clothing but expected to fight a 21st Century war in hostile terrains ?
The Babu delays - bargains & scouts for every piece of silver in commission of armaments & equipment unmindful of lives lost & soldiers maimed meanwhile.
Who stays when politicians come & politicians go ?
No matter which way you look at it. Your answer will be the Babu.
So Veterans using football parlance. Mark Your Man.
(marking is an organized defensive strategy which aims to prevent a member of the opposing team (usually a striker) from taking control of the ball. Several marking strategies exist in football, and they mostly differ to each other according to duties assigned to defenders, positioning and off-the-ball style)
No matter where you live – City Town Village. Mark your Man.
Keep one Babu in your cross hair. Check his history. Check his reputation. Check his credentials. And if he is like most of his breed ….Work towards proving his crimes naming him & shaming him.
Behind every scam of mind boggling numbers is our Babu.
He shows the way – he sniffs the opportunity and facilitates the process for the politician. It’s about time you called his bluff & exposed him.
If those who have fed on the fat of the land can surreptitiously and quietly take what is a brave and honest man’s right – why should you let him get away ?
Why should he speak with his forked tongue for you ?
If you can be ordered to fight and shed blood why do your political masters find it below them to speak to you directly?
And why aren’t you on those committees that decide your lives and working conditions?
Make the Babu work for his living. Like you do for yours.
For a highly professional lean and fit military you are put through the paces – whereas you know competent or incompetent the Babu can only go up.
So help remove a leech from the system. A termite that’s hollowing the core.
Mark Your Man.
If OROP is not given to you why should it be to him ? Mark your Man.
Why must the funds for OROP be taken from the silent & helpless ? Why does the PM feels he has to snatch from the poor to give it you ?
Why not stop instead the loot of the Babu ? Take it from his carefully nurtured money draining turfs. From Air India – failed PSU’s or if push comes to shove check their box beds !
This is not a war with Pakistan or China.This is a war with the enemy within. The Babu.
Your last assignment again in the service of the Nation.
Expose only one lakh of them and you’ll have OROP many many times over! Mark Your Man.
Meanwhile re strategise your OROP demand. Don’t back off or another forty years will be lost. Agitate when necessary. Negotiate where you can.
But, Mark Your Man.
The serving soldier will remember you for ripping off the mask off the enemy at home who plots while his back is turned.
And if you can – convey to the political class a simple message. Pay heed.
Read what is put before you. Check.
Double check what is being done in your name.
Remember you stand for elections.
The Babu only laughs all the way to the Bank. Mark Your Man.
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(Source- via Gp e-mail from Col NK Balakrishnan Retd) )
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