From: Malu pattamalu@gmail.com
Date: Sunday, 17 May, 2009, 4:52 AM
Dear Brigadier Kamboj,
I am writing this mail to reassure you that your decision to issue an advisory was well intentioned and was absolutely appropriate. We need to remember that our issue was OROP and issue of an advisory was necessary at that point in time to emphasis our concern on the issue. Would keeping quiet then helped us in anyway other than projecting the ex - servicemen community as a group of naive and gutless lot? Would it not have given an impression to the entire country that we lack conviction on the issue? General Kadyan and his team needs to be commended for their efforts in bring this issue to the notice of the general public.
We now need to pursue the issue resolutely with the new Government without allowing any dilution. I have no doubt that the people of this country are with us and the Government will have no option but to concede to our demand now or a little later may be with some pressure. Perhaps it is only trade unionism that works with the Government and the politicians.
With Best Wishes and Warm Regards,
Brigadier V Mahalingam
