From military coup to toppling J and K government

a view: The number of nails in the coffin of UPA government (if at all there is a goverment !!) is increasing day by day. Baba Ramdev's case is not hidden with a wrong stamping at the Delhi Immigration. We must expect more. UPA is a very fortunate government who will have the pleasure of adding nails to their own coffin.Let us wait and watch, "which UPAs blunder/rival individual/organisation will take the honors of hitting the last nail in UPAs coffin" ??. I am still wondering, the rats ( all UPAs alliances ) have still not taken off from the sinking ship/ghost ship ! I have highlighted portions in below article for my friends in civies. It is well worth bringing out that the State Govt of J & K also combines the J & K State Police in joint operations against terrorists (combined operations as per policy, with police and other Central Armed Police Forces like BSF, CRPF,), there are intelligence set up within such organisations, how come no one smelt the rat------since there was none! Similarly, coup in Delhi, what were UPAs very reliable friends CIA, KGB (others RAW, SSB, IB, etc etc ----there is no external/internal intelligence here) etc doing and not alerting the central government of the coup ? as there was none! Our Services Chief's are no Idi Amin !! they are true stalwarts/heroes of the nation/role models. Do the Services Chief's know less than what the MoD knows?? that they have to snoop!!! is there anything worthwhile that takes place in that ministry for one to snoop! Some news channels must request the interview for public awareness, the RM/DM and top bureaucrats of MoD and just ask them even collectively, to answer what The most Honorable Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw (Bahadur) had said ("-------can distinguish --------a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter" (bureaucrats included too!) , this is coming true time and again ----and again ----(attached) PS :. 1. Will the legal luminaries come forward jointly and sue the government and news papers for propagating such dangerous moves creating fear and panic within our citizens ! 2. My civilian friends should know that we have an established system in the Defence Services known as "sitrep" ( situation report---- for actionable events or for information flowing from lower level to higher level in field or peace ) No important orders are passed just verbally, it is recorded in these sitreps. In peace we have "Message Log Book "----during non office working hours, though working goes on 24X7, whereas in Uttarakhand during natural calamities the respected Mr Duggal and the complete office set up of civilian staff incl responsible bureaucrats were having a ball of time on Saturdays (off day) and Sundays (holiday) what a mockery of so called civilian control ????? Nescit Cedere DON'T VOTE FOR THE UPA IN NEXT ELECTIONS. THEY FAILED TO LOOK AFTER INTERESTS OF EX-SERVICEMEN From military coup to toppling J and K government Lt-Gen Harwant Singh ( Retd ) Not long ago a national newspaper, of considerable standing, ‘in headlines’ on its front page had created a stir amongst the public by raising the specter of a military coup, engineered by the then army chief. The provocation was the move of two minor units ( in all 1000 soldiers ) towards Delhi, at a time when army chief’s case concerning his date of birth was being taken up with the supreme court. At any one time there are over thirty thousand troops in Delhi cantonment, so how did another thousand matter! Now the same paper on its front page, notes, ‘Undesirable activities by a rouge intelligence unit of the army’ undertaken by the same army chief (now retired.) NO LESSONS LEARNT The story of coup at Delhi turned out to be hoax: a creation entirely of that paper. Though the paper ended up with an egg on its face, it has learnt no lesson and has now put out another daft story of snooping on ministry of defence (MoD) and toppling a state government, just because the government of that state wants the removal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act, (AFSPA) . The paper may not know that this noise about removal of AFSPA is purely for public consumption. Behind closed doors the state government’s stand is different. Tell that government that the army is being pulled out from internal security duties from the state and you will see the panic in that very government. For the military, counter terrorist operations in J and K, are of no great interest and is the least preferred task. It is there on this job because the state and central police simply cannot measure up to the task. It is alleged that a sum of Rs 1.9 crore was used to destabilize the present state government, but it stops short of telling us the amount required to dislodge the central government! The paper may not know that the government, which would have replaced the present set-up in J and K would be more vocal in removal of AFSPA and is known to be hostile towards the army. EQUIPMENT IN QUESTION The equipment under reference is for intercepting radio communications and was purchased and held by the National Intelligence Agency ( NIA ) which is part of the MoD and not the army. However such equipment is essential for the army deployed on counter terrorist tasks to get to locate, ‘enemy intelligence cells’ and others involved in terrorist activities. Our ammunition dump at Poonch is well tucked behind a high ridge and it is near impossible for the Pak artillery to score a hit, unless someone nearby can correct fire by constantly passing information to Pak guns. During ‘Kirni operation.’ Pak scored a hit on this dump and destroyed part of the ammunition and we had no means to locate the mole who was directing Pak artillery fire. The same was the case at Kargil when Pak hit our ammunition dump and we had no means to locate and hunt out that mole. Army required such an equipment on priority but never got it. To allege that army had deployed some of this equipment to know what was going on in the MoD is absurd. Firstly, this equipment was never with the army and secondly nothing worthwhile takes place in that ministry for one to snoop! ABSURD ALLEGATION Allegation of attempts to alter the line of accession, for the post of the army chief, is equally absurd. No one, other than the government, can do this and it did so on two previous occasions. First in the case of Lt-Gen Prem Bhagat, VC and second in the case of Lt-Gen Sinha, for no valid reason except to have a pliable replacement: against the best interest of the army and the nation. This report on the actions of military intelligence ( albeit NIA ) and VK Singh’s involvement in all this was given to the defence minister sometime in March, 2013 and now towards the end of Sep, 2013 it has been dug out, soon after Gen ( Retd ) VK Singh attended an ex-servicemen rally addressed by Modi. Even the dumb witted can connect the two events. It may be recalled that this very paper had highlighted the leakage of Top–Secret letter written by VK Singh to the PM and pointed the finger of suspicion at VK Singh. Nothing came of the CBI inquiry, because the leakage had allegedly taken place from the office of the cabinet secretary and that a lady officer was involved. There is a perceptible fall of standards of journalism. Remember, the editor of another paper published a series of articles, under his name, on the age row of VK Singh and pray who was the actual author of those articles! The dimensions of the case and sustained witch hunting of an army chief and its possible implication for the army as an institution are of such far reaching consequences, that an enquiry by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court is warranted. THROUGH MUD AND BLOOD, TO THE GREEN FIELDS BEYOND