All police indifferences and atrocities that have happened in recent past against the serving army officers and their friends and relatives have happened in BJP ruled states.!
Some years back RSS chief had belittled our Armed Forces by stating that they could raise an army in three days ! As if keeping a standing armed force was a waste of time and resources.
A serving Admiral was dismissed and sent home by a BJP Govt without a notice.
BJP has already established some Sainik Schools and has an aim of increasing its numbers to hundred in total. Why should a political party run Sainik Schools ?
May be they desire to fill NDA with their own recruits from these schools in time to come and have the armed forces under its wings like the Chinese Communist Party has the PLA in China, with Sangh Pracharak breathing down the necks of commanders at each level like a political commissars in communist countries.
Congress had accused BJP some time back of introducing RSS agendas in Sainik Schools. There may be some truth in it as there can be no smoke without fire!
One person had been brought from retirement and put in the highest post as if there wasn’t any fit enough person to fill that long vacant post in the system. Thus belittling the existing system of selection and promotion in the armed forces ! Thereby telling the system how worthless it was ! 🚩Days aren’t far off when some policeman will be placed there, provided he comes from a particular place and state !
Long time back a civil servant had written an article published on the edit page of a national news paper, advocating the feasibility and viability of appointment of civil servants in the posts of corps commander and above, as it is only Strategy at corps level and above and not tactics, ( which ends at division level ) ; the latter could be left to lesser mortals in uniform to manage !
Govt tried to introduce lateral induction in to the beaurocracy and it was opposed by the civil servants lobby and they have succeeded ingenuously in putting that on hold.
🚩 The Congress has NOT done any better.
➡ #Nehru ( he even advocated INDIA DOES NOT need d mil / the POLICE can SUFFICE ) reduced Armed Forces’ ICO’s pay and left that of KCO’s pay intact and Indian the KCOs accepted it, as they didn’t have to suffer a loss themselves ! The ( unspoken ) rot is THAT OLD in higher echelons ! ( wither the CHETWODE MOTTO ! )
Congress government under Mrs Gandhi reduced armed forces pension from 75% to 50% and increased that of civil servants from 30% to 50% with the promise of an OROP to the Armed Forces. & It took 43 years for the OROP to see the day light. That too after long agitation and receiving LAATTHEEs at hands of police at JANTARR MANTARR ! While the BAABBO surreptiously included certain higher ranks ( appts) selectively , in the armed forces who were given pension as per the civil servants equivalence /scale who kept their mouth shut in bargain and left their subordinate suffer financial loss for long.
The Armed Forces have a very steep pyramidal heirarchial structure and promotions are far and few.
A NFU (denied by our own TOP BRASS ) would have helped many who couldn’t make to the next rank. But the same has been denied to the forces tho’ given to the civil servants whose promotion prospects are much better and working condtions much comfortable.
The treatment meted to Generals and their equivalents in corridors of power isn’t that what it used to be , in the past and they are made to feel that they are there as mere appointees of civil authority and not of their own professional merit and competence. That they aren’t of any different stock, but of common clay like the rest of civil setup ( which is definitely an inferior clay by process of selection and training. ) They are kept out of the gambit of decision- making committees. Politics over professionalism has started to shape things which it shouldn’t. Supercession in higher appointment , appointment of a retired person to the highest post over-looking competent persons in service and dismissal of an Admiral without a notice , will pave ways for politicisation and sycophancy and killing professionalism in the armed forces. These may make politicians and civil servants life easy for a while but harm the forces and Nation in long run.
🚩🚩🚩May be these have trickled down the chain and are now reflected on the streets.
Awe and aura of military 👺is being cleansed for good😬 and that of the civil replacing it. In times of break down of law and order when armed forces will be called to restore the situation, more brutal force may have to be used, which a mere Flag March would have done before.
The military is neither a vote bank nor it can manage the vote banks like civil servants for the political masters in a democratic set up.
*In absence of a democratic system in past, the military was the sole vote bank for the ruling elites and hence enjoyed the good pay, perk and privileges. It was so valued that ruling elites joined the officer cadres almost in totality. But now it’s not even the officers’ children’s first choice !
There were few mutinies in the British Indian Army by the British officers over pay, perks and privileges, which are known as White Mutinies and they got their demands each time, as the existence of empire was dependent on their support alone.
A very high born Viceroy had lost his ego’s battle against his C in C of much humble origin and resigned and sailed home in disgust and defeat.
It certainly can’t be like that now. Hence , reason for a new and viable approach is needed to tackle the problem in totality.
Civil Military Liaison Conferences are hosted by Military, where hospitality has over years been replaced by serviality. All these may have added to present episodes’ evolvement over a long period.
➡➡➡➡ODISHA is thinly represented in forces and the state has thin presence of armed forces’. Establishments there, if any, are but of recent origin. But in Rajasthan and MP with high representation in armed forces and existence of large numbers of age old military establishments in the states and yet the occurrences these of unfortunate episodes speak of erosion of military’s reputation.
When serving officers are looking so helpless, imagine the plight of ESM spread thinly all over the country.
Time has come to rethink the relationship🤝 with both civil and political setup.
Time has come to *think beyond just beer drinking invitations & Get Togethers !
Time has come to talk beyond Cheers and Bottoms Up, when the safety of their own kith & kin are not sure in the civil street !
🚩🚩🚩At this rate the DISRESPECTED military ( as an institution ) , will be forced to sing in utter helplessness – ” some time, I feel like a motherless child !”
That will be indeed very sad and detrimental for both the Military and the Mother Land !