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Here is an Email addressed to the
Hon';ble PM from Lt Gen SK Bahri, Chairman, Alliance of Ex-Servicemen
Organisations.
Dear Mr Prime Minister,
The ESM community
is a very disillusioned lot. Reason being that you announced
at the Rewari Rally in Sep 13 that you will meet the long outstanding demand
for One Rank One Pension of soldiers soon after BJP comes to power. I
WAS THERE when you said so.
It is going to be
one year since you became the PM and we are only hearing about new dates every
few weeks.
The expectations
started from 1 Mar to 20 Mar, 1 Apr, 1 May, 26 May and now mid Jun.
Periodic assurances
are being given by the RM, COAS and of course yourself.
The soldiers have
now resigned to a future which is not dissimilar from what we had come to
associate with your predecessors.
A sad situation
when they had such high hopes from you.
We are aware that you are dealing with
an intransigent bureaucracy, but with your and the RM';s experience of dealing
with it in your earlier avatars, we expected a much better handling of this
animal from you both.
There are
murmurings that the FM is the culprit, as he had mentioned to some of us who
met him soon after your government had been formed, that politicians are in the
habit of making tall promises when faced by their constituents, which they may
not be able to keep later.
May I remind you Sir, that you have
made a promise to a soldier and so you are duty bound to keep it ie., if you
expect him to keep his promise to the nation when he takes his oath on joining
service. I hope we do not have to remind you again.
A PROMISE IS A
PROMISE.
Regards
Lt Gen SK Bahri
PVSM (Retd)
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ReplyDelete.I have nothing more to add beyond what Lt. Gen. SK Bahri has written. I just want a quotation of what President Obama of USA has said " So long as I am the C-in-C, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off your uniform, we will serve as well as you have served us, because no one who fights for the Country should have to fight for a job or roof over his head or the care they need when they come home"
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