The movement is picking up well. The IESL which did not take participate in 27th Rally PAN India, is organizing rally on 07th May at Jantar Mantar New Delhi. Unity for the just cause should bind us together in our resolve to restore honour and dignity to our patriotic Armed Forces personnel.
Rashtrya Sainik Sansatha lead by Col TP Tyagi, VrC is organizing rallies at the following locations:
The rallies have also been planned at Nagpur, Dehradun, Secundrabad and Jabalpur. May I request all the existing organizations of Military Veterans and volunteer Veterans PAN India to organize rallies to protest against the 6th PCR and to project our demands which have been mentioned in my email dated 02 May 08. Please let us know the details so that Military Veterans across country could be informed and if possible media assistance could be sought.
Another area which needs to be attended to, is the participation of PBORs in big numbers in the movement. I request the volunteers to organize village/ town Sabhas across country to unite all veteran PBORs and explain to them the injustices of 6th PCR and our demands. We need to generate the Zanoon amongst all Military Veterans. Let us do it. Maximum support from media both print and electronic be sought.
I will be visiting Punjab on 5th, 6th & 7th. A press conference is being organized at Patiala for our cause. Anyone in and around could attend, Contact Col Phoolka. There is suggestion to hold a big Rally at Delhi on 27 May 08. What are your views? There is another suggestion to create Blog on the Net where everyone could record his/ her/ views, feedback, grievances, suggestions, action plans and so on, Col Khanna who owns a software company at Chandigarh/ Mohali has volunteered to create Blogs for Military Veterans. His website http://www.chandigarhexchange.com/. The name of the Blog suggested is “Military Veterans”. Are their any suggestions in this regard? Brig CS Kamboj is already managing “Report My Signal – Blog”. Our sincere thanks to them. We need to give wide publicity for maximum usage of these Blogs. The Police have already created a Blog on the Net which is being widely publicised on the TV Channel. Let us go all out to create awareness PAN India to strengthen our Movement.
With regards,
Jai Hind
Yours Sincerely
Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
Dear Friends,
It is heartening that large numbers of Military Veterans are joining in the efforts sharing very useful suggestions. This is the churning process and will definitely result in a very strong unified voice; resulting into strong effective action plans. 6th PCR seems to have engendered an emotional revolution amongst the veterans who felt ignored, humiliated, degraded and downgraded. The electronic systems have provided on excellent platform for us to communicate with one another our views and anguish caused by decades of neglect by successive Governments; our voice long suppressed has found an utterance.
Veterans have realized that the bureaucracy will continue to ill advise the politicians resulting into Goverment totally ignoring the Armed Forces till such time the collective whole of the Veterans strongly affect the Electoral process, which was not possible earlier because veterans were dispersed through out the length and breadth of the country. The IT revolution has given rise to the awakening that veterans are now in a position to have an impact on the electoral process. Infact, 27th Apr 08 was made a reality PAN India in 61 cities through the net, print and electronic media. Just consider the strength; there are approx 24 lacs pensioners and another 3 to 4 lacs non- pensioners. Each pensioner with 5 members, veterans have direct population influence of 1.40 crores. It is also known that each veteran has on influence over 40- 50 individuals; which works out to 12- 13 crore population influence. If we add the serving armed forces personnel which are 14 lacs approx and with the above calculations, approx 30 crores population is directly or indirectly has influence of Armed Forces. Imagine, if this very large population is able to create a viable electoral influence, the bureaucracy and the Governments will stop ignoring the Armed Forces.
Let us work towards this very important democratic strength in a dignified manner. If we are able to create this awareness in the country, we will become the "Force to reckon with" in a very lawful and democratic manner. The time has come. I appeal to all the veterans to work an hour extra everyday and enlarge the strength of veterans on Net. Some veterans can volunteer to organize this awareness in the villages and small towns through the Evening Sabhas where mails on the net can be read and explained. The data can be sent on email to each other. "The Pay Commission drums will then become louder and louder…………". In order to talk the same language, the following are suggested to be our minimum inescapable genuine demands:
Jai Hind
Yours' Sincerely
Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM (Retd)
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