Do You Know Who I am?

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                         Do You Know Who I am?

   

This happened at a New York Airport. This is hilarious.

I wish I had the guts of this girl.     An award should go to the United Airlines gate agent in New York for being smart and funny, while making her point, when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo.

For all of you out there who have had to deal with an irate customer, this one is for you.

A crowded United Airlines flight was cancelled.

A single agent was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced travelers.

Suddenly, an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket on the counter and said,

"I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS."

The agent replied, "I'm sorry, sir. I'll be happy to try to help you but I've got to help these folks first; and then I'm sure we'll be able to work something out."

The passenger was unimpressed.

He asked loudly so that the passengers behind him could hear,

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO I AM?"

Without hesitating, the agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone.

"May I have your attention, please?", she began, her voice heard clearly throughout the terminal..

"We have a passenger here at Gate 14 WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him with his identity, please come to Gate 14."

With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically, the man glared at the United Airlines agent, gritted his teeth, and said

F*** You!"      Without flinching, she smiled and said, "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to get in line for that, too."

 

MARITIME : Maldives: Land Ownership Bill, New Cause For Indian Concern – Analysis

SOURCE:
http://www.eurasiareview.com/31072015-maldives-land-ownership-bill-new-cause-for-indian-concern-analysis/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29

Location of Maldives. Source: CIA World Factbook

Maldives: Land Ownership Bill, New Cause For Indian Concern – Analysis

                                     By

                  N. Sathiya Moorthy*

By South Asia Monitor
Friday, July 31st, 2015

For a tiny Indian Ocean nation priding itself as the only one in the South Asian neighbourhood not to have been colonised by European powers, Maldives now has a fast-tracked constitutional amendment conferring land ownership on big-time foreign investors becoming an overnight cause for additional concern.


The constitutional amendment, only the second for the 2008 ‘democracy statute’ was passed by an overwhelming 70 members in the 85-seat People’s Majlis, or Parliament, voting in favour, just a day after the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) of President Abdulla Yameen had moved the Bill in this regard.

The constitutional amendment came on the eve of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of Independence, falling on July 26.


Apart from 54 MPs belonging to the Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM)-led coalition, of which the Maldivian Democratic Alliance (MDA) party is a partner, a total of 19 opposition members, comprising 10 from the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) and nine of the Jumhooree Party (JP), also voted for the bill.


While 14 MDP parliamentarians, including ranking members like group leader Ibrahim ‘Ibu’ Solih, Mariya Didi and Eva Abdulla, voted against the bill, the lone member of the religious-centric Adhaalath Party (AP) under-scored the shortage of time available for any meaningful debate. Among the notable supporters for the amendment was former Speaker, Abdulla Shahid, now in the MDP, whose strong views on ‘sovereignty’ issues are otherwise well known. JP’s businessman-founder, Gasim Ibrahim, since coming out of increased government pressure on imminent repayment of $90 million in revenue dues, expectedly backed the bill, claiming that it would bring in a lot of benefits in an ‘inter-linked world’.


That the opposition was divided over the vote and could have been on the verge of a break-up became clear when the MDP in particular and the JP, desisted from issuing a whip for the vote. This contrasts with the more recent practice of the MDP issuing a three-line whip for party MPs to vote with the Government on the equally controversial First Amendment only days earlier, pertaining to the law on the impeachment of Vice-President Mohammed Jameel Ahmed.


The MDP and the JP also voted on the impeachment motion subsequently, which again was fast-tracked. However, unlike the surprise element attending on the new land law, rumours about Vice-President Jameel’s impeachment and his replacement by Tourism Minister Ahmed Adeeb had been doing the rounds for weeks now. Adeeb has since been sworn in, after parliament passed another motion in between, fixing a time-limit for debating his nomination, when made.

Gayoom Seeks Referendum

In a none-too-unexpected move, former president Gayoom, half-brother of President Yameen and founder-president of the ruling PPM, wrote to the latter and also tweeted ahead of the parliamentary vote, asking him to consider the public concern before giving his assent to the controversial law. While Yameen did not react to Gayoom’s suggestion – conveyed through a personal letter to the president, and also with the people through a tweet – a government spokesman clarified that it was the former’s decision, and it stood.


According to the Minivan News, Gayoom urged President Yameen to “hold a public referendum on the issue, noting the amendments were proposed without public debate. He also stated that previous governments did not sell any part of Maldivian territory to prevent foreign influence over the country’s independence, sovereignty, and resources”.


Incidentally, this is possibly for the first time that President Gayoom has come out in the open on an issue of controversy and concern to the nation as a whole. Only days earlier, he had denied rumours over differences with President Yameen on the decision to impeach Vice-President Jameel and also on the latter’s choice for replacement. At the time, Gayoom tweeted that the president should have freedom to choose a vice-president of his choice.


Though Gayoom was not more specific on what he thought was the cause for public concern over the current law, PPM members – all of whom taking a pro-government line — in Parliament confined mostly to putting his argument on its head, and submitting that despite 80-90 per cent of the 112 luxury resorts in the country being foreign-owned, there had been no such problem. Majority leader Ahmed Nihan assured the public that the ruling party would not compromise Islam or Maldivian traditions and sovereignty.

Nihan, the Minivan News reported, “stressed that the amendments only apply to newly-reclaimed land and that the government was not planning to sell existing natural islands or reclaimed land”. However, it remains to be seen how far would such promises hold, considering that China is also funding the prestigious Male-Hulumale sea-bridge project and a host of others, and President Yameen had already said that almost all Maldivians could be housed in Hulumale island, in the Maldivian suburb.

GMR Deal

Coming as it does on the footsteps of the earlier SEZ law, passed with equal force by the PPM-combine controlled parliament, the new land law confers ownership with transfer rights on foreign investors putting in a minimum of $1 billion on the purchase of land, of which 70 per cent should have also been reclaimed from the sea. This by itself should be a surprise in a nation, where the ownership of most, if not all lands rests in the state.


Suffice is to point out that in the case of Maldives, one of the strong arguments against the by-now-aborted ‘GMR deal’ with the Indian infrastructure major was that the contract put the possession, though not ownership, of the nation’s only international airport, with facilities for the possible landing of large air force transporters and the like, in the hands of a ‘foreign entity’. What went unmentioned in the process was the successful landing of wide-bodied, Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft with armed personnel, at the height of the ‘Operation Cactus’ rescue operation, after mercenaries laid siege to the Maldivian capital of Male, in 1988, when president Gayoom was in power.


It is not unlikely that the current amendment is aimed at making FDI under the SEZ law more attractive than already. Months after the Yameen government, including then tourism minister Adeeb, now Vice-President, heading the SEZ clearance panel, had promised imminent big time investments, nothing much seems to be in the pipeline. It may have more to do with the inherent inadequacies of the Maldivian economy, where geography and demography have conspired against the nation having a strong manufacturing base.


It is anybody’s guess how and why the nation has not followed up on the currently felt limitations of resort tourism with a big time entry into the financial sector, like Singapore and Dubai, both not far away, but should be focussing on what seems to be non-financial services sector, if not outright manufacturing, for which, land, water, electricity and transportation and labour costs would all prove uneconomical. It is another matter that Maldives has yet to take labour law reforms, as prescribed under international codes, seriously and the state and status of low-end migrant labour continues to be appalling.
 

Chinese Military Base

According to local media reports, MPs opposed to the new law “expressed concern over possible Chinese military expansion in the Maldives, and the lack of time to review the amendments”. As they pointed out, the bill was pushed through parliament in such haste that the House committee evaluated the contents the day it was presented and cleared it instantly, for full House vote the very next day.


The critics may have a point. Not very long ago, the Maldivian government leased out an island in the Laamu Atoll to a Chinese player, for the development of a tourist resort for near-exclusive use by the large number of budget travellers from that country. Expanding the international practice of donor/creditor nations converting part of the aid into originating goods and services, Chinese investors, as has been the norm, also import infrastructure and casual labour from that country. This has ensured greater exclusivity in terms at project sites, with host nations at times feeling extremely uncomfortable about their real purpose and presence.


Speaking during the final debate on the amendment, Minivan News quoted MDP parliamentarian Eva Abdulla as saying that a Chinese Yuan class 335 submarine has passed through Maldivian waters and docked at the Karachi port on May 22, adding that Indian media called it “China’s deadliest attack submarine”. MP Eva has already submitted a demand for summoning Defence Minister, Maj Gen Moosa Ali Jaleel (retd) to the House, for seeking an explanation on the Chinese naval presence of the kind in Maldivian territorial waters.


Maldivian foreign and domestic policies should be based on ensuring Indian Ocean regional security as “Maldives is not in the South China Sea”, she said. Maldives is a “front line state” in the new Cold War and should not be a catalyst for conflict, Minivan News quoted the MP as saying further. The MDP as a “centre-right party” supports free market policies and the principle of private land ownership, but could not support “selling land for China to build military bases” in the country, Eva Abdulla added.


According to Minivan News, ruling PPM parliamentarian Ali Arif conceded that the Maldives as a small nation is always vulnerable to influence from powerful nations. He said the House committee addressed the concerns over sovereignty during its review process and added a clause to the bill stating that the Maldivian state will exercise complete authority over the territory designated for projects.


Be it as it may, it is anybody’s guess how a nation in near-eternal debt to its international creditors and successive political leaderships lacking the will to plug deliberate and organised leakage of government revenue and forex earnings could ever bring itself around to challenge foreign investors, state or non-state actors, on ‘sovereignty’ issues or ‘transfer rights’, if it were to be accompanied by instant repayment of massive dues, as is the case in the GMR arbitration case.

Larger Issues

China was known to have proposed a massive atoll-centric tourism facility for its budget travellers when MDP’s jailed president Mohammed Nasheed was in office. At the time, too, security concerns came to be expressed, given the possibilities and also the inevitability of such an exercise forcing Maldives into a geo-strategic situation where it would have little choice or say. The reference was possibly also to the US military base in Diego Garcia, not very far away, whose 50-year lease would come up for review and renewal in 2016.


The concerns of the larger Indian neighbour in this context should come not only from the increasing presence of adversarial China, whose controversial and at times suspicious ‘Maritime Silk Route’ (MSR) has attracted smaller neighbours like Maldives and Sri Lanka, for reasons that do not always justify the decision. India was equally perturbed when the US, near-unilaterally approached the government of then Maldivian president, Mohammed Waheed Hassan Manik, for upgrading the existing ACSA (Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement) to SOFA (Status of Forces Agreement), providing for US military personnel on foreign territory to carry weapons and be governed by American, and not local laws.


Any excessive presence of Chinese or other nationals in the Indian Ocean neighbourhood, especially of particular nations, could only add to the concerns of India, which is not known to have drafted any cohesive, comprehensive and decisive approach to handle situations of the kind. This time round, there is more credible information about increasing Chinese presence and interest in Maldives than during the days of president Gayoom, when unsubstantiated rumours – at times manufactured with an intent and motive – made ill-informed sections of the Indian strategic community, dizzy.


More importantly, the Indian policy maker and political leadership may need to confer greater and continuous attention to the immediate neighbourhood than already – including the imaginative initiative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi inviting all neighbourhood Heads of Government for his inauguration, and following it up with whistle-stop visits to most of their capitals. Maldives was excluded from PM Modi’s three-nation Indian Ocean neighbourhood tour, which covered Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka, thanks to the evolving, explosive situation nearer home, followed the arrest and trial of former president Nasheed in the ‘Judge Abdulla abduction case’.


*N. Sathiya Moorthy is Director, Chennai Chapter of the Observer Research Foundation. He can be reached at sathiyam54@gmail.com

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OROP: OROP OUR (BATTLE OF) PLASSEY !!!!‏ OR सुग्रीव भेदी लंका गिराय

SOURCE: FWD E-MAIL


 OROP OUR (BATTLE OF) PLASSEY !!!! ‏

                                               OR

                सुग्रीव  भेदी  लंका गिराय 


Adjectives like treason, treachery, betrayal, disloyalty, perfidy, 'dhoka' and the closest and most comprehensible to a fauji 'thoka' (Yes we have been 'thokoed' by our Comrades and Govt) - Well all this and more by a bunch  famously replicating -  Judas( betrayed Jesus) , Cassius&Brutus (both betrayed Julius Ceaser), Guy Fawkes(turned Catholic and tried to blow up a Protestant  Britian's Parliament), Benedict Arnold(American turned traitor, when not given his due for Battles won  in the Civil War), Raja Jai Chand(let down Prithviraj Chauhan), Mir Jaffar ( Plassey fame), Sambhaji(Shivaji's eldest son  not annointed King by Shivaji, joined Mughals,only to return after 2 years), Ganoji Shirke(Sambhaji's brother-in -law), Gen Labh Singh (1st Anglo-Sikh War) and of course the BJP list(Nehru, Swami Agnivesh, Romila Thapar, Digvijay Singh, Shashi Tharoor, Rajender Sacchar, Mani Shanker Aiyar, Lalu Yadav,, Arundhati Roy, Rajdeep Sardesai, etc: to quote  Dr Babu Suseelan).

That said, I wonder what the motivation of the 'Gang of Four' Lt Gen Raj Kadyan, Lt Gen Balbir S Yadav, Brig Kartar Singh(known him, I'd rate him an excellent human being and extremely helpful) and Col Nain was, to have tried, to high-jack and subvert an absolutely genuine demand of OROP. I know human greed can be triggered for personal ambitions for varied  reasons like: political power, money, a perceived injustice done or not getting their due, feeling of a superiority complex, or just plain megalomania. For one or  more reasons. (Long list, but  short really as I lack the necessary qualifications to do a psychological analysis and pass judgement). Issue is the OROP demand does not affect both the Generals, so if they did not think it was right, they should have stayed neutral. I know a few who do not believe in the means employed but support the demand and have stayed neutral.


The conduct of the 'Gang of Four' on Kargil 'Vijay Divas' at Jantar Mantar on 26 July 15, would have made FM Sir Phillip Chetwode squirm (in his grave ofcourse),  of the  deliberate attempt to  create a rift amongst the Officers/JCO's/ NCO's and our stoic brave soldiers under the United Front  of Ex Servicemen(UFESM) banner, spearheaded by Maj Gen Satbir Singh, Gp Capt Gandhi and others, by putting up a separate stage and seating(all new) for 2000 people (must have cost a pile - where was the money from?? I will leave the guessing to you) to hijack Anna Hazare. They sought to project themselves as the real UFESM, their ploy was  exposed when Anna Hazare realised he had been commandeered to the wrong venue  and decided to walk across to the one organised by Gen Satbir after a while. Both Gen Balbir Singh and Gen Kadian, scooted  and left a bumbling Brig Kartar (I have got Anna Hazare here as promised) and Col Nain to shovel the shit and face the music. Brig Kartar's attempt to nuzzle upto Anna and perch himself on the stage met with  angry protests and he thought it wiser to abandon his foray. I must commend  Gen Satbir Singh's conduct right through the entire proceedings, including when the other party before the arrival of Anna Hazare, resorted to cheap and unsoldierly gimmickry of turning on blaring music to drown out the proceedings this end. Gen Satbir stuck to the script of OROP and no bad mouthing. Great restrain.  Well done Sir.!!!




The cause has to be seen in its larger context of, the ESM and widows,in terms of dignity, living with honour, subsistence, survival and impact on the immediate family, ability to raise children with the necessary educational skills, social and moral standing in the  community. This is what impinges on morale and  motivation, whether to send the son to join the services or give it a pass. Statistics indicate anyone with the qualifications and opportunity opts out. I am not going to repeat the issue of pay fixations, commencing 1973 and the injustices and disparities created after Third Pay Commission. Suffice to say, the Govt decided to cut off a very vital limb of the national bulwark, disinheriting virtually a very proud and tradition bound organisation, of its proud officer cadre and men (partially), which over the past few  years is surviving on band aid  dressing, affecting both the human  factor and the war fighting capabilities in terms of morale,equipment and weaponry.




The  policies manipulated and presented to their Political Masters by a jaded Bureaucracy, to inure their unquestioned authority in a power structure, protected by a shield of unaccountability, actually entails the manipulation a largely disinterested Politician. He  has neither the time, nor the attention span or interest to understand the time consuming but serious needs of national defence and security, except superficially as it does not impact his vote bank. This treachery has  affected  especially the officer intake, where we had second, third and fourth generation people joining  out of tradition and loyalty to the Regiment/unit or for the traditions of discipline, honour, adventure(like me) with a misplaced understanding of valour and bravery in battle(we were only 14 plus years old and made this decision then, perhaps on introspection, some later concluded, not the right one). One of the reasons a lot of young people are wanting out very early. I am not talking of Short Service Commissioned Officers.



 
The burning question is why did the 'Gang of Four" indulge in this devious treachery, selling themselves out to the current Govt. All involved have served the Army, I am sure for 30 to 40 years, and they have stabbed the very men and their subordinate comrade-in- arms, in the back, by virtue of whom they attained their rank. They have sullied, through subterfuge and dishonoured the fine traditions of soldiering. They are turning the cold steel blade in an assisted hara-kiri, in which only the assistants(them) seem to be in a hurry to get over and done with the killing, so they don't have too long to answer to their tormented conscience (???) for  their treacherous act. Was the all consuming  fire in their belly  of personal ambition so intense that they rather,  that their deserving comrades  burnt to cinders, and the issue was buried once and for all, and the Judas(s) were heaped with political and other forms of gratitude, by a relieved  Govt.




But they still have a conscience to live with. I know the service gave us all one, and tied it in a Gordian knot with honour (of self, to unit, and the uniform), service(to the men, unit and Nation) and welfare of our men and burned it into our DNA. What went wrong with the 'Gang of Four"???? What pushed or compelled them to break the code of conduct of an Officer and a Gentleman. Did the Honour code fail them or did they fail the cause of their command?????




 The  PM had promised the implementation of OROP in his pre-election  Ex- Servicemen Rally in Rewari, in the presence Of Ex-COAS Gen V K Singh. Not only that, when addressing the troops at Siachen on a visit, told them OROP had been granted. Even going so far as to say if the Atal Vajyapai Govt had been reelected the OROP issue would have been settled then and not come up. So why the change of heart and the blurring of issues, like varied definitions of OROP. The plain truth is like all politicians, PM is also in election mode, where he needs to promise the 'all the gold Fort Knox', ( which he knows he has no access to) to buy votes. Money is limited. Soldiers don't count much for votes. Above all human memory is short, is how the PM and his coterie see it. They think they will wear out the ESM. The story going around in Amritsar I believe is, that Arun Jaitely feels the Fauji's turned the the cold steel blade in his gut decapitating him, by electing Capt Amarinder Singh. The man should realise, oratory in Parliament and fighting big money cases in the cool environs of the Supreme Court or running the Delhi Cricket Association, does not give you a mass following. So how can you fault the fauji who saw Jaitely in that mode and as a disrupter of Parliament in Rajya Sabha. 




An issue that has been rankling me is,  as to why Gen V K Singh and Col R S Rathore both Ministers in Govt, did not come to the commencement of the Relay Hunger Strike (RHS) on 14 June, to have just showed their solidarity with the cause and pointed out, that by virtue of their position in Govt, they could not actively support the demand, and given their Best Wishes.  I think it would have had a massive impact on the cause.




The unstinting contribution by their  presence, of two very senior citizens, both wheel chair bound, Mrs.Balbir Singh  (95 years) widow of late Col Balbir Singh of the GRENADIERS and CO of Col Inderjit Singh,  (the initiator of OROP) and  Mrs.Sujatha, daughter of late Gen Umrao Singh, who is there daily and is here from the US for 3 months, specifically to support the RHS and in case it is prolonged she will be relieved by her Mother, currently in the USA. That is the steel soldiers and their kin are made from and their spirit and their will cannot be destroyed till justice is given. But above all the determination of Maj Gen Satbir Singh and his team and the large No of our ESM who sit there everyday uncomplainingly, living in Hope of Justice, for their genuine right. A shame on the Govt, that the soldier is out on the street demanding his Right.




So 'Brave hearts',  where to you figure your chances are  with the OROP-- with a bruised and seething FM,  a marauding BJP in election mode lead by NaMo out to conquer India over the next 3 years and treachery of 'The Gang of Four' So is it a case of Finance availability or Just plain ego ??!!     After all this, the charade is nothing short of treachery, -- we might have to prolong our wait-   but 'Get we will our Right'.. '


Jai HO


Sanjiv


P.S. My humble request is, to limit circulation to service personnel only, as we should not be seen exposing our unfortunate warts to outsiders. But I leave it to your discretion.




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OROP OUR (BATTLE OF) PLASSEY !!!! ‏

                                               OR

                सुग्रीव  भेदी  लंका गिराय 






INDEED SHAMEFUL ON THE PART OF CERTAIN SENIOR DIGNITARIES TO BEHAVE LIKE SCHOOL KIDS . FOR EGOTIST  PROBLEMS THEY HAVE LOST THE SIGHT OF 

                          " THE AIM- OROP "

  MY SOBER ADVICE TO THEM IS PLEASE STAND IN FRONT OF MIRROR & LOOK AT YOUR FACE. I  BET YOU WILL NOT RECOGNISE THE  OLDIE  HOGGISH  FACE YOU WILL SEE IN THE MIRROR STARING AT YOU & REMINDING THAT A VERY LITTLE TIME IS LEFT BEFORE ADHERING TO THAT FINAL CALL OF THE ALMIGHTY. PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME CHASING A SELF CREATED IMAGINED MIRAGE. AT THIS STAGE IF YOU CANNOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE CAUSE PLEASE BUZZ OFF &  GO  and READ MAHABHARTA. 

         GURU DRONACHARYA ON FINAL EXAMINATION OF
 HIS DICIPLES ON

                         "THE ART OF WAR FARE "
 Guruji :-          Samne kia dekha ?

Drodhyan:-       Guruji " MURGHA"

Bhim;-              Guruji  " MURGHE  KI 
                           FLESHY LEGs"

Arjun :-             Guruji    "AANKH" mera                             nishana

THOSE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN THE    'BASIC  MOTTO'  OF  FM CHETWODE  HAS NO BUSINESS TO BE AT JANTAR MANTAR & JEOPARDISE THE FUTURE OF LAKHS OF VETERANS, WOULD BE VETERANS, VETERAN's WIDOWS & LAKHS OF THEIR  DEPENDENTS


                                      अभ इन्ही को देखिये 

                                   now read  on the

                       "DISTRACTIONs"
                                        &
                   FORM YOUR OWN OPINION






Dear Veterans,

This is in response to a mail from Cdr Pathak and Wg Cdr C K Sharma that Lt Gen B S Yadav and Brig Kartar Singh have left UFESM.

Time has come to first sort out internal issues of UFESM before the OROP.

    देखिए  जनाब  AIM (इरादा ) ही भुल  गए  और अपनी ही  व्रेटलिंग (WRESTLING) में  ही उलझ  गए।  इनका इरादा 
  
   

UFESM was created after various bodies which got together at the Constitution Club meeting on 06 Jun 15. Purpose to coordinate OROP effort.

 IESL agreed to whole hearted support to the joint effort. ( नो बिग टेक ,रिजल्ट्स टिल डेट  NIL )

 1.  WHAT IS IESL. Indian Ex-Services League was formed by amalgamation of All India Ex-Services Federation and the Indian Ex-Services Association, headed respectively by Late Field Marshal K M Cariappa OBE and Late K S Thimayya DSO. The league was registered under Societies Registration Act of 1860 (Punjab amendment) Act 1957 as extended to the Union Territory of Delhi vide letter No 52495 of 1964-65.

Indian Ex-Services League is recognized by the Govt. of India vide letter No2(2) RECGN/IESL/KSB/A2000 dt 04 Jan 2001 as the Apex body of ESM and this Apex status has also been recorded in a resolution of the 7th Lok Sabha on 20 April 1982. 

 

The first and the second Presidents were Late Gen K S Thimayya DSO and Late Field Marshal K M Cariappa OBE. The President of Indian is the Grand Patron-in-Chief of IESL. The Defence Minister is the Patron-in-Chief, and three service Chief's are Patrons. The present membership of IESL is approximately 4 lakhs.

 

2.  WHAT IS THE LAXMAN REKHA THAT IS BEING TALKED ABOUT. To the uninformed this is to convey that IESL is a Govt body and will not take any action that will displease the Govt. Readers please judge for yourself what action of IESL has been seen in towing the govt line.

 It was IESM under MG Satbir who gave a call to support BJP in the last elections. Who are the govt stooges today? Who goes to Gen V K Singh to arrange meetings with RM. It Is Hon' Satbir Singh.

Who leads the rally in front of Bhatinda Military Station. It is IESL. PLEASE JUDGE FROM THIS WHO IS GOVT KA CHAMCHA. Not only ESM, even the serving voters of Amritsar constituency supported Capt Amarinder Singh in his fight against Mr Jetley. Why is Gen V K Singh not called to support OROP struggle. It is IESM who does not want this because it will hurt the Govt.

 Have enough ammo to blast your theory of LAXMAN REKHA. Everyone knows who wanted BJP ticket/Rajya Sabha nomination from the IESM leadership and who will quietly slip away even if offered so now. 

 

3.  IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY HONEY. The mistake made by all ESM bodies coming under UFESM was not to open a new account for subscription after formation of UFESM. All money, cheques and cash is in the hands of IESM. Now the 30 odd bodies are  asking IESM to make the accounts transparent. Till a few days back the collection was over Rs 60 lacs and it was told that Rs 40 lacs have been spent. Rs 40 lacs spent in about 45 days when so much of assistance is coming from volunteers for the RHS. Since all bodies are very small compared to IESL they are asking Lt Gen B S Yadav to seek details of accounts from IESM.

IESM HAVE REFUSED TO BRING ABOUT TRANSPARENCY IN ACCOUNTS WHICH IS WHAT EVERY ONE IS DEMANDING. HENCE THEY FEEL BY TARGETTING LT GEN YADAV AND BRIG KARTAR THEY CAN SILENCE/WIN OVER OTHERS. 

 

WE WILL NOW LEAD THE DEMAND TO MAKE ACCOUNTS TRANSPARENT. VETERANS SHOULD KNOW THAT APART FROM OFFICERS, JCOS/OR HAVE ALSO SENT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ALL OVER. IESM HIERARCHY SPENDS MONEY ON THEMSELVES WHEREAS JCOS/OR TRAVEL AND STAY ON OWN EXPENSES. THIS IS WHAT THEY LEARNT FROM LONG YEARS IN SERVICE.

 

4. INTERNET WARRIORS. Is there any doubt that the IESM  are the best internet and media warriors. Else why would they say Lt Gen Yadav and Brig Kartar have left UFESM but the IESL from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP are with UFESM. This because if not for JCOs/OR who will sit on RHS. And they have to come from these states only. Don't try to be too clever Pathak and Sharma. 

 

5. INFIGHTING IN IESM. Whilst Cdr Pathak and WC Sharma are talking of internet warriors and some being persona non grata, can they tell us what happened when Signalman Sheoran defeated their officer hierarchy in the elections for President/Chairman. The world should know that the humiliated leaders of todays IESM have not reconciled to this and are fighting battles in the court. IESM thereafter held elections in far away Pune where JCOs/OR could not travel whereas officers went by air to keep their chairs intact. We DONT have this in IESL. We have JCOs/NCO as State Presidents and Dist Presidents.  

 

5. HUNGER STRIKE. This was Gandhi's 'gift' to us. You know why? It was easier for the British Govt to handle someone like Gandhi on hunger strikes than to tackle the likes of Bhagat Singh, Netaji Subhash Chander Bose and their brave compatriots. Support Gandhi and eliminate Bhagat Singh and Netaji. Our politicians have learnt from them. Hunger Strikes, which was the idea of MG Satbir and his IESM was opposed by a majority in  the Jun 06 meeting. IESM knew that their RHS would not last for even a week without support from other organisations. So RHS support from JCOs/OR in which IESL of neighbouring states has been in the forefront and money from officers made a win-win situation for IESM. Now they are scared to make the accounts transparent and fear if they dont keep other ESM organisations, especially IESL from neighbouring states with them, their RHS will come to an end. You are the traitors who have failed officers and men alike. You know in Delhi every thing is available with money. No one sees the I Cards of ESM in RHS. You can hire people from the money you have collected and show them as ESM on RHS. You will come down to this when you will be exposed. This has just started.

 

You know what is written in Gurbani regarding fasting and suicides. 

" Chade Ann Kare Pakhand, Na suhagan na uh rand " - Fasting is a drama, a person on fast is neither married nor widow/widower.

" Atamghati Jagat Kasai" - A person who commits suicide is a butcher of the world. 

 

FIRING NOW : OROP ALREADY ACHIEVED. The hierarchy of IESM by collecting over Rs 60 lacs (thats what they say, God knows what is the truth) and showing a fictitious expense of Rs 40 lacs have already got in 45 days what they would have got in the balance of their life time month after month with OROP.  (ONE BIRD IN HAND IS BETTER THAN TWO IN THE BUSH  बट  जनाब अभी तक तो  एक भी नही )

 

APPEAL TO ALL VETERANS.
Please seek the account details and demand that the funds be put under joint supervision of UFSEM which IESM is not allowing.Please expose the IESM doings on all forms of social media.

 

Brig Inder Mohan Singh (Retd)

President IESL Punjab


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