VOICE OF EX-SERVICEMEN PUNJAB

CAPT AMARINER WILL LEAD FROM THE FRONT*

*VETERAN’S SOLIDARITY RALLY on Thursday, 15 September 2016 At War Memorial at 1630h, Sector 3, Chandigarh*

*CAPT AMARINER SINGH* the most celebrated veteran will lead the ESM to Governor residence

1. To affirm our support to the COSC bold decision asking Govt to withhold implementation of 7CPC for Armed Forces till all anomalies are solved
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2. *You are requested to Assemble at War Memorial  Sector 3, Chandigarh at 1630 PM sharp*.

3.Veterans shall proceed thereafter to Governor Punjab (Administrator UT) & Governor Haryana to hand over the Memorandum of Solidarity with COSC Lead by Capt Amarinder Singh.

4. We request all the Veterans of Punjab , Haryana, UT Chandigarh and other places to join this Mega Solidarity Rally, irrespective of your political affiliation groups or associations .

5. No slogans to be raised during assembly Nor  display of banners.

Let’s get together as true and real soldiers in letter and spirit.

Must give Moral support to our chiefs as the Govt is all out to degrade defence forces to the lowest statuall veterans requested to Join and recah RV at 16:30 h on 15 Sep 2015.

It’s a prestigious issue and cause  so all requested  to come in strength.Even civilian brothers and sisters can join in support.

*SOLIDARITY RALLY* 
*Dt~Thursday, 15 Sep. 
*Time~16:30 hrs. 
*Venue~War Memorial. 
* BOAT CLUB ,SUKHA LAKE , Chandigarh. 
Regtl insignias, scarves, side caps, a riot of colour. 
Chest up, pride written on your face, a soldiers countenance.

Let people know the difference.

Rgds.
Col Charanjit Singh Khera

Gen Secy

Sanjha Morcha

INSTEAD OF BABUS,STAND BY DEFENCE FORCES:AMARINDER

A LETTER TO DEFENCE MINISTER PARRIKAR

As Recd on Face Book and stated by Capt Amrinder Singh MP ( who defeated Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at Amritsar  in the last election)

Mr Parikar, once again you have shown your inability to understand the services. You can order them in operational matters and they will do as ordered. On what grounds can you order them to accept the 7th pay commision? Is this Nazi Germany and are you Hitler to issue such a dictatorial order? The three Chiefs are reflecting the views of each and every soldier in uniform or out of it. Instead of you standing by your defence services you are toeing the line set by your Babus. Do you realize the implications of your attitude? You have a highly disciplined force, perhaps the only pillar in our democracy that works without ever commenting. Do you want a disgruntled service? If the services are to loose their standing by placing them below your Babus and police, that is exactly what you will have, and then God help our country with a beligerant China and Pakistan. Will you then lead your Babus into battle? Have you heard of a word called morale? If so, you are in the process of demolishing it. Put your act together Parikar and put your self above party, politics and Babus and stand by your forces. Demoralising them will effect the security of our nation. Either stand by your services or quit. Perhaps the PM can find another defence ministers out of the multitude he has on parliament. You too Mr Prime Minister look beyond those who lack foresight and personally intervene. This is a matter of national security and beyond that of the comprehension of Parikar. The three Chiefs are absolutely correct in their stand.Their officers and men expect nothing less from them. They have my complete admiration and total support.

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CONTENTS OF EMAIL FROM ::MAJOR GENERAL S.G.VOMBATKERE

MAJOR GENERAL S.G.VOMBATKERE

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

MYSURU: News of the unhappiness of the Armed Forces (Fauj, for short) with the bureaucracy is old hat. The contempt in which the bureaucracy holds the Fauj is also old hat, reflected most recently in the 7CPC making the already unfavourable position of the Fauj even more unfavourable.

When the 7CPC recommendations were to be implemented for all government servants, all the three Service Chiefs went to THE government and asked the existing pay anomalies be rectified before the 7CPC recommendations were implemented for the Fauj.

That is, the 7CPC award was unacceptable to the Fauj as it was unjust. This move by the three Service Chiefs was in their understanding of the widespread outrage among the rank-and-file and the officers, that the 7CPC had given them a raw deal.

This outrage had already gone viral on social media, and the signal from Service Headquarters informing All Ranks that the matter has been referrred to government and that they should patiently await the outcome, was to pre-empt any overt demonstrations of outrage, which would go against military discipline.

Now the outcome of the Service Chiefs’ approaching the government is that Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has overruled them and directed them to implement the 7CPC award for the defence services. This has created a very grave situation, in which there can be three possible outcomes, which we will consider along with the repercussions.

One, the Service Chiefs follow Parrikar’s directions. If this is done, they will have to face the fallout of their decision among the rank-and-file and the officers, who are already keyed-up with anger at continuing injustice from the Sarkar (the combination of politicians and bureaucrats). This is wholly unpredictable, and if the worst happens, it will have extremely serious repercussions on military functioning.

Two, if the Service Chiefs argue with the Defence Minister and insist on having anomalies are attended to before implementing the 7CPC award, it will amount to disobedience of orders. This would be a constitutional crisis of hitherto unseen magnitude, and in the worst case, may result in dismissal of the Service Chiefs.

Three, the Service Chiefs have the option of tendering their resignations. (One may presume that all three would do so, in the present circumstance). If government accepts their resignations, the officers next-in-line to take their places would be faced with the same situation.But if on the other hand, the government does not accept the resignations, it will possibly require a resignation from the Defence Minister.

In any of the three contingencies, the nation’s defence preparedness will be irretrievably compromised. All this is at the end of many happenings … Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promises at Rewari when he addressed Veterans in the run-up to the 2014 election, and his subsequent promises after he assumed office, to get more for the military, have all been proven false.

PM Modi has probably not understood that the soldier is not a fool, and also that the Fauj is the nation’s instrument of last resort.

Defence Minister Parrikar’s contempt for the defence services is a matter of discussion within the serving and retired Fauji fraternity, who noted that he inspected a military guard of honour wearing chappals, that he “saluted” at the Amar Jawan Jyoti with his vest showing, and that he attended the International Fleet Review in February wearing casual clothes, whereas he dresses appropriately when he is abroad.

Parrikar’s peremptory direction to the three Service Chiefs to implement the 7CPC award without delay is the latest itdisplay of his dismissive approach to the Fauj. It is being said that both the Prime Minister and his Defence Minister are jointly responsible for the present contretemps.

(Major General S.G. Vombatkere, VSM, retired as Additional DG Discipline & Vigilance in Army)

EMAIL CONTENTS FROM LT GEN SATISH BAHRI

Dear Mr Defence Minister,

The ESM fraternity is shocked that you have ordered the Chiefs to implement the 7th CPC Award as it is and will sort out our grievances. Sir, we have heard these same words before and have been duped every time. Wonder if someone has told you that the Ajit Kumar Committee sat for five years to sort out anomalies of the 5th CPC and produced zilch! The Cabinet Secretary’s Committee was formed to redress our grievances after 6th CPC and as expected again gave peanuts to the soldiers. Do you think that the soldiers will take your promise of sorting out the issues seriously? We can be fooled once, maybe twice but not every time.

Wonder if you are aware that there is a precedence to the Services refusing to implement a pay Commission award. After the 4th CPC Award the Services were not happy with the scales for JCOs & OR and the bureaucracy had tried to tweak officers’ salaries in their own favour. The Services accepted the award 4 months after it was paid to the civilians. It was the team of the RM, Mr VP Singh and MOS, Mr Arun Singh that fought the case out for us. Are you willing to stand by us or will the the babus’ case of being ‘heaven born’, supported by Mr Jaitley, prevail? After this will the government have the courage to ask the Army to come to its aid eg., in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka? The shocking scenes of total anarchy on our TV screens with the police forces invisible, will surely give confidence to the state and central governments. Luckily, the Centre has its pet CAPFs who will be able to bring the situation under control, like they did in Haryana!

With warm regards

Satish Bahri

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