Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Sunday said that the new government’s advice to Army men was “not to get killed for the country but to kill the enemy of the country.”
Addressing a huge
crowd that gathered to mark his 60th birthday celebrations here, Mr. Parrikar
said it was quite common in India to make an emotional appeal to the Army to
sacrifice their lives for the nation.
“I have told them
(Army men), don’t get killed, you kill the enemy so that a befitting lesson is
taught to the enemy who dares to invade India’s borders,” the Defence Minister
said, explaining the change in the motivational strategy for the Armed forces
fighting insurgency on the border.
“The change in
approach has brought handsome results in the last over a year if you compare
the figures of casualties on both sides of the border in the previous 10 years
or so,” Mr. Parrikar said.
Responding to
speculations about his retirement, Mr. Parrikar said some people were “clearly
hoping that he would retire”, reiterating that he had no such plans and would
not do so without completing the “responsibilities” bestowed on him.
George S. Patton said "It is a popular idea that a man is a
hero just because he was killed in action. Rather, I think, a man is frequently
a fool when he gets killed." He also said ". " No bastard has ever won a war by dying for his country,
he's won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his" . . .
"So our Esteemed Defense Minister in trying to imitate General
Pattons Lines rephrased them in a most foolish manner. This gentleman appears
on his way of becoming a nut case. Or is it in answer to questions being raised
for the 7th CPC discontinuing funeral allowance for martyrs?
What ever this IITian is making a fool of himself.Really his oratory beats me specially being a very senior
Defense Minister of this great country. How the hell is he going to look after
our welfare if this is his knowledge of elementary military tactics and these
are his ideas of motivation?
My god Suntz Su must
be squirming in his grave listening to this strutting peacock talking poppy
cock. Quote "“I have told them (Army men), don’t get killed, you kill the
enemy so that a befitting lesson is taught to the enemy who dares to invade
India’s borders,” the Defense Minister said, explaining the change in the
motivational strategy for the Armed forces fighting insurgency on the
border." Unquote.
How
about explaining this from the 7th CPC report Mr Raksha Mantri instead of
telling soldiers not to get killed in war.
The Siachen Glacier, which has the highest degree of both risk and hardship, brings soldiers posted there an allowance of Rs 31,500 per month. In contrast a civilian bureaucrat IAS and any civil service, from the All India Services draws 30 per cent of his salary as “hardship allowance” when posted anywhere outside what officials regard as a comfort zone.
The Siachen Glacier, which has the highest degree of both risk and hardship, brings soldiers posted there an allowance of Rs 31,500 per month. In contrast a civilian bureaucrat IAS and any civil service, from the All India Services draws 30 per cent of his salary as “hardship allowance” when posted anywhere outside what officials regard as a comfort zone.
For
example, a senior IAS official posted in Guwahati will draw Rs 70,000 per month
as “hardship allowance”, compared to Rs 31,500 per month drawn by military
officers in Siachen. So Mr Rakshamantri when and where is this SHAM going to
stop? Once the Pakistani Armored Corp divisions are well on their way to your
house in Delhi Mr. Raksha Mantri? If you advise soldiers not to get killed why
would they risk their lives to save Delhi Mr Raksha Mantri? They will just
steer their Tanks away in to the fields of Punjab and Haryana.
“Kaante
se kaanta nikaalte hain (you have to extract a thorn with a thorn) "Terrorists have
to be neutralised only through terrorists and India would take pro-active steps
to prevent 26/11 type..."
His
statement seemed a palpable endorsement of the culture of violence having
echoes of extra-judicial killings and vigilantism.Through his impolitic remarks
Parrikar managed to communicate that India, like Pakistan, distinguishes
friendly terrorists from those implacably hostile to it. No wonder, in a
misguided attempt to establish parity, Pakistan pounced on Parrikar’s statement
to declare that India should be dubbed a state sponsor of terrorism.
In the late
1970s, as students at IIT Powai, they were forced to travel ticketless as they
could not wake up the man behind the counter at 4 am. At Dadar, a ticket
examiner fined Parrikar Rs 10 plus an additional 40 paise for the fare. A
furious Parrikar travelled ticketless for the next semester, as he thought it
was unfair. "One day he found his free trips had cost the government Rs
11.20 paise. So he bought stamps from a post office and tore them up. Now,
the Government of India and I are
square,' he said."
"Parrikar
might be feeling frustrated in Defence ministry as he has no effective role to
play, except to act as a postman of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his
cabinet," Congress leader Shantaram Naik
On RTE Act: "RTE
Act (Right To Education)is Kapil Sibal's absolutely foolish policy. "
On Perceived Loss of Respect of the Indian Armed Forces: “40-50
years, we have not fought a war. I am not saying we should go to war. I am
saying that because we haven't fought a war, the importance of the army in our
minds has dwindled.” My dear sir, it is the likes of Nehru, Indira Gandhi and your political cronies, operating through the IAS Babus who have over the years, who have slowly but surely whittled away the honor, respect, pay and allowances and heirarchy of the Indian Armed Forces.
Mr.
Parrikar,"Nations respect their armies for maintaining peace, not for
going to war. The presence of soldiers, suitably armed, is supposed to
guarantee peace. It’s the imperialists who talk of war in a language that
encourages the army to be proactive and provocative." Parrikar erroneously
believes war-mongering is the best way of maintaining peace. He forgets
the lessons of Chanakya given to King Chandra Gupta Maurya a thousand five hundred years ago.
On India’s population problem: “He (Parrikar’s
father) went to the extent that he used to tell everyone, his friends, “Idhar
ek atom bomb girna chahiye, aur aadhe log jalke khaak. (An atom bomb should
fall here, half the population will be burnt to ashes.)”
On the problems industrialists encounter: “When an
industrialist wants a permission, he has to face 16 inspectors, but a rape
victim has to face only one inspector. (italics mine)” (It had many
women organisations gasp in disbelief at this comparison.)
On the issue of China invading the Indian market: “I found that nowadays
the eyes (of Ganesha’s statue) are becoming smaller and smaller. One day, I
finally turned around the statue and found Made in China written on it.”
On India as a Hindu nation: "India is a Hindu
nation in the cultural sense. A Catholic in Goa is also Hindu culturally
because his practices don't match with Catholics in Brazil except in the
religious aspect, a Goan Catholic's way of thinking and practice matches a
Hindu's.”
Parrikar
belongs to an all-boys’ club, where racist, anti-women remarks invite guffaws,
not ridicule, and tough talk evokes admiration. This was precisely the response
of the audience at a function of the Vivekanand International Foundation, a
rightwing think-tank, where Parrikar made some of the statements quoted above.
Parrikar
simply symbolises the time we live in and the political culture his party is
drafting on India.
GOD SAVE
THE INDIAN ARMED FORCES FROM THIS JOKER WHOM WE ARE FORCED TO ACCEPT AS OUR
DEFENCE MINISTER OUR MAY BAAP (MOTHER AND FATHER )
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