From: raj kadyan rajkadyan@yahoo.com
Sent: 28 April 2010 22:09
To: kamboj_cs@yahoo.co.in; TRUNCATED
Subject: ESM SITREP 28 APRIL EVENING
Dear Colleagues,
Someone out of our ESM community has floated a suggestion that we burn effigies of political personalities. The obvious intention is to pressurize the regime into conceding OROP. The fact that the IESM will have nothing to do with such a proposal that goes against our very culture and ethos is only part of the consolation. While all of us are entitled to our individual views, the fact that some out of us, brought up in the best military milieu, imbibing what are the finest soldierly values, could contemplate such a course of action, does come as a disappointment. However, none of us has a right to be prescriptive on the issue.
The main plank of our OROP demand is that we as soldiers are different from others. Our claim by itself is not sufficient; this difference has to be visibly reflected in our behaviour as well as in our actions. We should not forget for us means are as important as the ends. We are responsible to pass down a legacy that the posterity talks of with a sense of pride and not with a sense of guilt and embarrassment.
Undoubtedly, the suggestion has been mooted out of impatience and frustration at the continued stone-walling of our demand for equity and justice. We need to remember that an old and intricate problem where the regime has long taken an entrenched position is not expected to lend itself to a quick solution. It is a marathon, not a sprint. We need patience and perseverance. Let us not compromise on our dignity and our core values.
The Movement is making progress and there is no cause for undue concern.
Best regards,
Lt Gen (Emeritus) Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Chairman IESM
262, Sector-17A, Gurgaon- 122 001
Tele: 91+124-4015262, +919811226676
