Date: Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Subject: By Design or by Ignorance , Mr Abhishek Manu Singhvi ?
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1. Mr Abhishek Manu Singhvi addressed General Roy Chowdhury and General Kadyan as " Mr" and that too not once but twice during Karan Thapers pgme on CNBC TV 18. I could catch only later portion of this pgme since it was not aired on scheduled date and time ( once again like last time) and I am sure not by accident or exigency but by another design !
2. Karan Thaper , ever alert and an informed as well as GENTLEMAN journalist did not hesitate to point it out to Mr Singhvi and asked specifically whether it was intentional or by mistake ( Karan new very well that it was an intentional and deliberate insult)
3. Mr Singhvi had no guts to say that he used the title as "Mr" to address retired Armed Forces Generals since in his belief it was the correct way ! On the contrary , he gave his SARDONIC smile and said that he respected the armed forces people or words to that effect.
4. The devious scoring of point on part of this lawyer turned politician speaking HIS MASTERS VOICE and always available on call to declare a CLUB as SPADE on behalf of a particular Political Party, is nothing new since Shri Manu singhvi is nothing but an expert " JHOONT KA RAFUGAR "
5. What is galling to me and obnoxious to my taste is his blatant misuse of so called freedom of speech and that too while addressing a Former Chief of Army staff and a Deputy chief, one a Four star and other a three star General . in a panel discussion to be televised to entire nation and to the world.
6. In his cockeyed , ill informed, intentionally mischievous , devious mind set he decided to call the Generals as Mr so and so and wanted to convey and show to HIS MASTERS that he is not beholden to the ranking armed forces people and is capable to put them at a proper place where they belong to !
7. And so what does he convey to the nation at large and to the world ! That the retired armed forces personnel are not required ( or not entitled )to be addressed by the ranks they last held ?
7. I am of the firm belief that a Government or for that matter A PEOPLE who permit or tolerate this will have to face the consequences, NOT LATER BUT SOONER.
8. I suggest that let us all inundate shri Abhishek Manu Sighvi and HIS MASTERS (whose voice he is) with the question-
BY DESIGN OR BY IGNORANCE , MR MANU SINGHVI ?
Brig ( Dr ) C P Joshi
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