Re: [HumJanenge] Please think of the Nation

A wonderful reply to moderates like Mr George.

From: Rahul Kumar <rahulkb50@yahoo.com>
To: "humjanenge@googlegroups.com" <humjanenge@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 3 April 2012 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Please think of the Nation

MAY BE THIS WOULD HELP!!!!

This makes an interesting reading. Puts the babus & media in correct perspective.

 

Gen VK Singh's War on India ? The Lowest common denominator - Babus & Fourth Estate..........

 

It was on a TV show that an ex diplomat spilt the worms from the govt. can.  He mentioned that the PMO had commissioned some journalists to release a set of six articles to discredit the Chief of the Indian Army. The timings would be as dictated.

The morality of the Fourth Estate was put to test when the skirmish erupted.

 

They failed.

 

Ever reader/analyst saw through the canards of unconnected lies that the media published. The tone of online polls trying to paint the Chief as a Villain added to the conviction that the quality of the Indian media was as crass as the Govt. they fed off. The latest battle saw a seemingly reconciliatory backing off while the media was left to snipe at the General.

 

India Today, a magazine that has achieved the lowest levels of journalistic ethics had the front page designed like a titillating porn cover. The cover page which screamed 'Gen V K Singh's war on India ' was more like an Angelina Jollies leg show to entice readers to grab thrash. Another ham-fisted operation from an incompetent PMO.

 

There is a lull in the battle but despite the chaffs to deflect the core issues the problem remains. We shall call the gaffes as Attempted Deflections (AD).

 

AD 1: The leak of the letter was deflected to creating a ruckus over the source rather than addressing the core issue of lack of preparedness and the inability of non-professionals (babus) in the MoD to be able to handle matters military. It is now emerging that the leak would have been the handiwork of the babus to escalate the differences between the polity and the Army.

 

AD2: Interference by nonprofessionals who do not do, or know their own task but want to over step their brief. The Army is only responsible for putting forth the qualitative requirements (QR) and carrying out trials of the shortlisted hardware. The financials and purchase processes are the responsibility of the babus.  In the recent TATRA case the army put forth the QR but the onus of involving middlemen and purchasing through a trading company is the fault of the babus, so, it was quite surprising the that babus of the MoD did not come under the media fire for misappropriation of process.

 

AD3: The General should have acted against the erring officers. In cases involving senior military officers the General did the right thing by approaching the RM who should have stepped in and taken action. Instead on the advice of the Babus who were neck deep in the mire he decided to buy time and threw the muck back at the General. The delay assisted the Babus get away plans.  It is quite surprising that in the case of of General , the RM said that the he was not briefed by the Chief but the next day the CBI dropped the charges because they said that some Cabinet Secretary had investigated the charges and had given the General a clean chit. Now, how come the Army Chief and the RM did not know about this investigation by the Cab Secretary and the findings thereof.

 

AD4: The spat was advertised as one between a) the Govt. and the Army or, b) the civilian vs. Army or in the extreme lowdown case of India Today as one between the Army and India . The mischief makers were busy stroking the embers of discord whilst remaining in the shadows. The truth was that it was a standoff between the most incompetent set up of the Indian Govt. machinery, the Bureaucracy a.k.a the babus and the Army. The Army had had enough of the inept and incompetent meddling of the babus and the standoff was the result of this long standing discord. St Anthony failed to recognize the core issue and let the matter simmer. Manmohan Singh is now famous for his Ostrich stance. The Congress has this Dilbertian strategy to project their key players as Mr. Clean while the appropriate title would be Mr. Impotence. The bandits operate elsewhere.

 

The Service HQs should now take the Babus head on. If for 20 years an artillery gun has not been purchased another 10 would not matter. Especially in a country where the elected representatives of the nation like Lalloo and other Members of Parliament are quick to skin the Army Chief without trying to ascertain facts. Its another matter that they may not be able to comprehend strategic issues. The problem with Services personnel is that they feel they are the Guardians of the Nation and must do so at any cost. Incorrect - in the present scenario where the people and their representatives feel that that the Armed forces are a burden upon them. Keep playing ping-pong with the files.

 

Gen V K Singh should not let his guard down. The Indian babus are known to behave like the Pakistani Army. When thrashed they return to get another one. As Indians we must thank the likes of Raj Chengappa and Sandeep Unnithan for the public display of low moral ethics of the Indian media. It is only people like them who help you gauge the standards of our Fourth Estate and will help in the comparison of their ethics to that of say a Mumbai bar-girl. We should also thank people like TSR Subramaniam who are on record saying that it is better to watch cricket instead of discussing such matters. Incidentally this man is the prototype of the Indian Civil Services – an Ex Cabinet secretary. No wonder Ministers are not able to perform. The advice from the civil servants when confronted with a problem must be to sit back, relax and watch porn.

 

The Govt. of India needs urgent de-weeding. A thorough Civil Service Reform is the need of the Hour. The IAS is no longer required. The Britishers required the ICS as Agent provocateurs as part of its set up in far of India . In free India we don't require the Laat Sahibs. Each ministry must have its own professional cadre. For core ministries like Defence, Finance, Home etc, State cadre civil servants should come on deputation to the centre. The IAS is vestigial and defunct and needs to be abolished. India 's greatest threat is not from across the Borders but from these illegal satanic prodigies of the British Raj. 

 

Gen Singh must keep his powder dry. The wily Babus have retreated wounded and must be planning their next perfidious act in the shadows. The Rajs and Sandeeps are in business....

Your take....

RK

From: Varghese K George <vkg.george@gmail.com>
To: humjanenge@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, 2 April 2012 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [HumJanenge] Please think of the Nation

what nonsense! it is as if only General Singh and you are honest! every other general in the army, the cabinet, and of course the supreme court judges who asked him to take a walk, are all corrupt!! OMG!!! such arrogance and self righteousness of a handful are the real danger to democracy in this country....

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Devasahayam MG <mgd@airtelmail.in> wrote:

The MoD mess–The Reality

                                           Ex-Major M.G.Devasahayam, 1AS (Retd)

 

Theopen feud between the Ministry of Defence and the Chief of the Army Staff aroseout of the contrived Date of Birth controversy. A corrupt cabal had conspiredsince 2006 to truncate Gen. VK Singh's tenure by digging out UPSC applicationform and trashing his School Certificate.

 Yet, neither the DoB issue is over yet, as is beingwrongly believed, nor is the tenure of General VK Singh going to end in thenext two months as is being widely claimed. The fact is that Supreme Court hasput the ball back in the court of MoD by ruling: "As a matter of fact, thequestion before us in the Writ Petition is not about the determination ofactual date of birth of the petitioner, butit concerns the recognition of a particular date of birth of the petitioner bythe respondent (Government of India) in the official service record."

It is therefore imperative that the MoDhas to first pass a legally speaking order 'recognising' Gen.VK Singh's realDoB as per law and Rules that hold School Certificate as paramount. This hasnot been done and the retirement orders of Gen VK Singh have not been served onhim till now. Yet MoD has nominated and named his successor (for whose benefit the entire conspiracy and manipulation took place) to take over asCOAS on 31 May 2012.

This action is untenable and the real cause of the messthat MoD has got into and only they are to be blamed. Instead they are tryingto pass it on to Gen. VK Singh by insinuating that he is now a 'frustrated man'and is trying to rake up the Tatra bribery issue and leaking out his letter on'defence preparedness' to PM to seek revenge. Some MPs, including congenitally corruptones, have asked for Gen VK Singh's summary dismissal and arrest without evenholding an enquiry!

This way of portraying theserving chief of the Indian Army as an adversary just because he is fightingagainst corruption and injustice is wrought with serious danger andconsequences. It is our Armed Forces who have defended and protected ourdemocracy through their valour, sacrifice and total sense of patriotism, bereftof any political ambitions as in our neighbouring countries. It is largelybecause of them that India stands tall as a free and sovereign Republic. Among the armed forces, the Army is the largest andthe most visible face. The chief of that force has a special status in thenation's affairs and he cannot be distinguished from the Institution he heads. When aninstitution like the Army is impaled, it is the people who bleed.

 Thepolitico-bureaucratic power coterie that is trying to bulldoze the Army Chiefis very distressing. If the serving Army Chief is treated this way and thesecorrupt cabals have their final say at least for two generations, no militarycommander will raise his head. And the message for military commanders will bethat it isn't merit, honesty or integrity that will get them promotions andtenures but pandering to the corrupt politico-bureaucratic cabal. The lastbastion of professional meritocracy in India will be crumbled and the damagewill be lasting.

 This is an open war between the honest and the corrupt and cannot becountenanced in the interest of national security and integrity in governanceIit time people with conscience stood up and be counted..

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Varghese K George
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