INDIA IS A SOFT STATE

INDIA IS A SOFT STATE WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? THE IAS MAFIA OF COURSE (Not all officers of the IAS belong to the IAS mafia. There are good people too amongst the IAS; but, they are more of an exception. The notable exceptions are: Mr V sundaram, IAS, Mr Omesh Saigal, IAS, Mr MG Devasahayam, IAS, Mr DK Manavalan, IAS, Mr Manish Gupta, IAS, Mr A Ramaswamy, IAS, Dr V Chandramowli (Emeritus), IAS, Durga Shakti Nagpal, IAS, Ashok Khemka, IAS, and a few more.) By Col SS Rajan, a Military Veteran Genesis of India’s Problems 1. The British created a privileged class of bureaucrats and called them the Indian Civil Service (ICS) who dutifully toed the British line in governing undivided India with an iron hand. Their loyalty was not to India but to the British Crown. AfterIndependence, the ICS mutated into a more virulent breed called the IAS. Its loyalty is not to Bharat but to itself. Its credo is: I, Me, Myself. Greed, selfishness, indulging in unethical & corrupt practices and betrayal of the Nation are its hallmarks. IAS today is a mafia and a law unto itself. Bharat today is in the stranglehold of the IAS mafia. From Kashmir in the North to Kanyakumari in the South, from Nagaland & Manipur in the East to Punjab & Rajasthan in the West, it is the IAS Mafia which rules the Country. Corruption & Venality 2. There is unfortunately a mistaken belief that it is the politicians of this country who are corrupt & venal and responsible for all the ills the nation is facing. I am afraid no. It is the IAS Mafia that is responsible. The politicians of this country are mere pawns in the hands of the IAS. If we say, politicians as a breed are corrupt, we must ask: who taught the politicians to be corrupt or indulge in mal-practices & corruption? Without doubt, it is the IAS. They are a wily class. Has anyone belonging to the IAS ever been caught & punished for being corrupt or for amassing wealth beyond his or her known sources of income? NO, except for a stray case or two. The members of the IAS are highly intelligent & motivated in the art of self-preservation; they are experts in covering their tracks (read covering their backs). Emasculating & Destroying the Integrity of the Police and other Central Services 3. Today, the IAS rules supreme; and all other Central Services, whether the IFS, the IPS, the IRS, etc. are considered inferior. The fallout is, Officers of other services must play second fiddle & pay obeisance to the IAS. When a young man joins the IPS and is posted as Superintendent Police of a District, he is full of patriotic fervor and vows to rid the district of thugs & hoodlums. But soon, he is disillusioned; and if he does not toe the line of the District Collector (an IAS) & his political bosses, he is soon consigned to the wilderness. Result? He quickly learns how to “blow with the wind”. A terminology coined recently!! Please do not ask me who coined it? Institutionalising Corruption 4. Take any scam, whether it is the 2G or CWG or Coalgate or Railgate; and there is no dearth of them. In all these scams, no politician can dare make money without the expert advice, active support and connivance of the IAS. If Shri Madhu Koda siphoned off Rs. 4,000, how did he do it? Do I need to elaborate? And what about scams before? Whether it was the Bofors, the HDW and others, who siphoned off the money, how and on whose advice and with whose help? Do I need to elaborate? If, today, billions & billions of Rupees are stashed away in Swiss Banks and in banks in numerous other countries that are tax havens, we tend to name the politicians as the culprits. But why not the IAS? Surely, the politicians could not have done it on their own. Do I have to still elaborate as to who helped them and connived with them to deprive this country of its wealth? Emasculating & Destroying the Institutional Integrity of Constitutional Bodies, viz. the Central Election Commission (CEC), the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) and other key national institutions like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) 5. The Constitutional Bodies, like the CEC, the CVC, the CAG and other important national institutions like the CBI have critical roles to perform in order to ensure good governance and to safeguard democracy in this country. Yet, the institutional integrity of these vital organisations have not only been eroded but has been ruthlessly emasculated & destroyed by the IAS. This was done by having pliable individuals nominated to head these constitutional bodies and other pivotal organizations. The primary victim is good governance. The recent case of the CBI Director confessing to the Hon’ble Supreme Court that he had shared the Draft Report on the Coal Scam with the PMO, the Law Minister and the Ministry of Coals & Mines, is a case in point. Emasculating & Destroying the Institutional Integrity of the Army, Navy & Air Force 6. Right from day one of Independence, ie. 15 Aug 1947, the ICS and its successor service, the IAS, had laid down for itself, as one of its Key Result Areas (KRAs), the downgrading and emasculation of the institutional integrity of the Army, Navy & Air Force. They accomplished their agenda with aplomb and remarkable dexterity, with the active support of the politicians. Don’t our Prime Minister and other Ministers hold the Defence Services in high regard? Undoubtedly, they do. But when the IAS constantly dins into their ears that they must not trust the Army and when they regularly conjure up the spectre of an ‘Army Takeover’, (which undoubtedly has been happening with predictable regularity in India’s neighbourhood), the politicians with their uncanny instincts of self preservation, fall prey to the machinations of the IAS. They become a willing tool in the hands of the latter and join hands with them to destroy the institutional integrity of the Army, Navy & Air Force. As late as April 2012, the IAS with the help, assistance & connivance of an unscrupulous scribe with a fertile (read “perverted”) imagination (who was perhaps hoping to be rewarded with a seat in the Rajya Sabha) said that Gen VK Singh, the then COAS, had planned a military coup by moving certain active units toDelhi. This piece of hallucination made headlines in a leading national Daily on 4 April 2012. All this was done to defame Gen. VK Singh and to show the Army in poor light. Such is the venality of the IAS. Please click on the following link and read http://creative.sulekha.com/alleged-coup-attempt-by-indian-army-on-16-17-january_556572_blog 7. There is an old saying: ‘Nobody can bully you and make you feel inferior; unless you too feel so, and are not willing to stand up to the Bully’. Unfortunately, successive Army Chiefs with their misplaced sense of “Civilian Control over the Military in a Democracy” have been kowtowing to the IAS. Civilian control over the military in a democracy means control exercised by the ‘Elected Representatives of the People’ and NOT by the civil service. If only, successive Army Chiefs had stood up to the IAS mafia’s machinations and rendered frank & forthright advice to their political masters, India ie. Bharat would not have come to such a pass, as we find ourselves in today.