Governed By The Corrupt And Incompetent
It is confirmed, we are been governed by corrupt and
incompetent individuals. While a majority that rule us are corrupt to the core
a large chunk of the rest are outright incompetent and in no way deserve to be
in the position they are now. In the act of choosing between the devil and the
deep sea, depending on which side of the political spectrum you are in, you
might choose to have incompetent individuals at the helm than having corrupts; but
for me both the lot are equally dangerous for any democratic framework and
sooner we get rid of the malice is better for us.
Just look at how our incompetent and corrupt team lead by
Dr. Manmohan Sing made a mess of the General V.K Sing’s issue. First the
army chief was entangled (by design) by some unnecessary age row and now he was
forced to be part of an avoidable spat with the central government in issues
ranging from alleged bribe approach to the gross unpreparedness of our defense
establishment in eventuality of a full blown war. While both the concerns
raised by the General is of grave nature involving our national security; our
incompetent government rather taking the concerns seriously, thought of excavating
a conspiracy theory out of nowhere and went on and on in various platforms. The
farce was blown out of proportion so extravagantly that the core realty that
our system is full with rot inside was pushed to the backbench. In both the
allegations of the General he genuinely wanted to pinpoint the lack of maturity
and will among those who rule us to fix the leak within the system but our
corrupt at the helm intentionally tried to give it a different color to benefit
their nefarious intentions.
First look at the bribe allegation. According to the
General, one recently retired big fish of Indian Army approached him with a
bribe of 14 crore to favor a particular vehicle manufacturer. Even a 10% truth
in the utterance is a serious concern. It shows that our system has gone so
stale that even one can approach the Army Chief with a bribe proposal sitting
right in front of him and that too in his office. That is so disparaging. Now
the question everyone asking the General is – “Why he didn’t apprehend the thug
right there and initiated legal actions”? The answer to which simply could be
the hesitation of the General to take such serious action against a recently
retired ultra-senior army officer (since Indian Army’s reputation is at stake)
without consulting his reporting authority, who here is the defense minister
A.K Antony himself. For me this is judicious and that is in fact what exactly
the General did. Before the General divulged this to a national daily, it was a
good eight months since Mr. Antony was apprised of the concern. If the General
can be questioned on why he didn’t act right there; may I just ask ‘What our
defense minister was doing for last so many months’? Reasons best known to Mr.
Antony he conveniently slept over the issue all the while and only got up from
his slumber when media knocked at his doors to respond to what the General has
to say. ‘I have already taken action’ is what we got to hear as a response from
the defense minister. What kind of action Mr. Antony? Can the nation know what
our defense minister did to safeguard a pious institution like the Indian Army
and to bring the rascals to book? As obvious as it gets, we are yet to hear
anything constructive and noting worthy from the minister on this. All that we are
hearing for last few days is Mr. Antony’s clarification in the form of hogwash
and his tremendous effort at pushing the ball to General’s court through
blames, all the while shrugging off his own responsibilities. This is so
bizarre to say the least. I am not sure if everything is the Army chief’s
responsibility then what Mr. Antony is doing there being the defense minister?
Just there to shake hands during the republic day parade with the defense
heads? Can’t say how many across the globe would be rolling on the floor
laughing, seeing this farce unfolding on TV.
Look at the more serious of the concerns that the General
raised. In a letter to the Prime-minister (as recent as March 12th
of 2012) he raised his concerns on the preparedness of our defense forces in
eventuality of a war. The five major concerns that should make all of us worry
broadly are
- The Army’s tank fleet is “devoid of critical ammunition to defeat enemy tanks”
- Our air defense is “97 per cent obsolete and it doesn’t give the deemed confidence to protect”
- The infantry is crippled with “deficiencies and lacks night fighting” capabilities
- Elite special forces are “woefully short of essential weapons”
- There are “large-scale voids in critical surveillance” capabilities
While all of the points look scary at its face value, what
the General wanted to point is the rampant corruption and loot that is going in
our defense procurement. I am sure if a genuine investigation is done on our
defense procurement then the thuggery can easily surpass 2G, CWG, Coal Scam,
Mining Scam put together. In a time when we surpassed China as the biggest arms
importer in the world a figure that shows we don’t even have ammunition at our
disposal to counter attack the enemy tanks, needs some thorough investigation. The
second biggest consumer of our defense budget, the Air Force has a fleet which
is 97% obsolete is another fact that need to be checked and graphs be drawn on
per year spending against the ground level improvement. Our elite forces are
woefully short of essential weapons. The groups like NSG are no wonder still
shouting for night vision glasses and sophisticated assault weapons. This is a
concern for sure when we even can’t fully equip our elite force to world class
level.
But just look at the government’s reactions to this
uncomfortable realty. Rather being jittery on the state of affairs in our
defense forces the incompetent and dirty work team are head over heels in
defaming the General for leaking such classified information to the media.
While the need of the hour is to dig out our entire defense procurement
mechanism to figure out the lacuna, our politicians are framing the General for
speaking the truth through some bizarre protocol framework. Even if we let
protocol become more important than national security, I still don’t see where
the General missed the protocol. He is in own capacity as the Army Chief wrote
to the Prime-minister through the defense minister. Where the bloody protocol
is violated? And please stop accusing the General of leaking the information as
I am sure, if there is a leak it must have been done by the thugs in our
defense ministry than the General himself doing it. For records I have more
faith on what my Army chief has to say than on a bunch of proven and certified buffoons
at the ministry.
Now you think that is good enough nonsense? No? Then hang
on, the bigger nonsense is the idea of the government to sack the Army chief
for speaking the truth and undressing the incompetent bunch of clowns governing
us. Of all the people it is Lalu Yadav who has to comment on the Army Chief’s
behavior. I haven’t heard a bigger joke since I heard someone saying ‘Aftab
Sivdasni’ is an actor. But the worrying fact is – “An honest Army Chief can be
sacked for speaking the truth but not a corrupt and incompetent government
headed by a lame duck Prime-minister”. This can only happen in India and I am
sure of it. Jay Ho!!
sorry to say...but this artcle amateurish at best...
ReplyDeleteCertainly!! Whatever that doesn't suits Congressi stooge's taste buds it automatically become amateurish. Playing Ostrich at Best!!
ReplyDeleteSuch a nice and well thought article. Very few people in India left now who can think at this level and discuss an issue with logical reasons.
ReplyDeleteWell thought article. I hope the Indian government is reading it as it provides good logical rationale on the various issues raised by the Army Chief and the reactions by the government.
ReplyDeleteObviously the government officials are more keen to cover up than expose the looting being done in the name of military ordnance procurement. God Bless India (or should it be God Save the People of India from the Corrupt & Incompetent)
Hey the PM is not only the lame duck PM, he i also corrupt as others are in his cabinet. I am pleased to mention that the Coal ministry is directly under our honourable PM. The scam says it all. Now he cannot sing the music of coalition politics on this one as the ministry is headed by himself only.
ReplyDeleteGood piece as usual. Keep going.
ReplyDeleteWorst thing i saw on tv was Lalu Prasad commenting on our Army Chief Mr. V K Singh.
That day was most hurting in my opinion.
Excellent article! I wish we take this up as port of Anna movement. My prediction is not that far when our country will be sold cheaply. What's the use of such prime minister, impotent and incompetent. This reminds me of Dhrithirastra of Mahabharatha and teaches us what an incompetent leader can do and lead the nation to. Only god can save this nation!
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