Date: Tuesday, 3 February, 2009, 7:10 PM
Dear Colleagues,
Jantar Mantar is under the charge of local Gurgaon ESM today. Satbir, Renjen and I met Rahul Gandhi this morning. He was pressed for time and it was a hurried meeting. We did make the following points:
1. Explained OROP. He seemed to have been very unaware of it.
2. Pointed out major differences between military service and other civilian government employment.
3. The Parliamentary Committee having recommended OROP.
4. Inclusion of the OROP in the Congress manifesto and Congress President’s public endorsement of it, and that the credibility of the entire establishment being at stake.
5. The likely adverse effect of the ongoing ESM fast/ campaign on the serving soldiers.
His Reaction/Response
1. He sympathised with our cause.
2. Said he would not jump the queue and speak to the PM.
In Sum
1. All our communications addressed to the political leaders are being blocked by the bureaucracy. Most politicians are unaware of the ESM demands and even of the Jantar Mantar fast; at least he was.
2. The decision makers in the government are unlikey to have realised the seriousness of the whole problem.
3. The meeting yielded no positive results; it did no harm either. One does hope he reads the few pages that we had submitted.
4. If I were to personally quantify the satisfaction level from the interaction, my pen would hover around 20%.
Best regards,
Lt Gen (Emeritus) Raj Kadyan, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Chairman IESM
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