To: Kamboj Chander
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: "REPORT MY SIGNAL" - AN IMPORTANT EMAIL FROM MAJ GEN SATBIR SINGH, VICE CHAIRMAN IESM - EMAIL 341/2009 - 23 APR 09 - (C to G)
This is with reference to your Advisory. We fully agree and endorse your views that we should vote for the party which cares for the ESM. BJP has made it quite clear in their Manifesto. WE WILL VOTE FOR BJP WHO IS READY TO PROTECT ESM.
Yours sincerely,
BRIG HS CHAUDHARY
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From: Brig V A Subramanyam vasubramanyam@gmail.com
Subject: Fwd: "REPORT MY SIGNAL" - EMAILS FROM MEMBERS - EMAIL 365/2009 - 30 APR 09 - (R to S)
To: "Kamboj, Brig Chander" kamboj_cs@yahoo.co.in
Date: Friday, 1 May, 2009, 9:15 PM
Lot more like Air Cmde Amirthalingam with you.
Never compromise your values and beliefs,
even if it means risking ridicule and rejection.
Be true to yourself.
Live your own life and don't allow others to decide what is best for you
If you do, you will be unhappy because you're untrue to yourself.
Refuse to run away from the things that scare you.
Confront these situations and overcome your fears so that you may grow as a person.
Don't compare yourself to others.
You are unique special being and therefore you should express your individuality . Let's spread the divine in you….
== Suby
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From: MNAmirthalingam
Date: 2009/5/1
Subject: Re: "REPORT MY SIGNAL" - EMAILS FROM MEMBERS - EMAIL 365/2009 - 30 APR 09 - (R to S)
To: Brig V A Subramanyam
I totally agree with Brig Kambhoj.
This is the time for action and not for nice inanities.
When the house is burning, I do not say"Please do get me a bucket of water". I SHOUT "WATER!!!"
No need to get into hair splitting.
Just do it and vote BJP, who is expected to be our Saviour.
We need more Brig Khamboj's than hair-splitting artistes.
with warm wishes,
Amirthalingam
Sarva Mangalaani Bhavanthu !!!
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From: VIJAY OBEROI oberoivijay@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: IESM getting politically divided.
To: "CHANDER KAMBOJ" kamboj_cs@yahoo.co.in , TRUNCATED
Date: Saturday, 2 May, 2009, 3:16 PM
Dear All,
I have so far restrained myself from commenting on this issue, although many times I have been tempted to do so. However, I think the time has come to stop this one-sided leaning towards a particular party, merely because of the promises their representatives have made. I still support the issue of ORP as I have always done, without becoming a member of the IESM.
Except for committed organisations, like the RSS or VHP or those which are part of a particular party, like Youth Congress or Akhil Bhartiya Vidhyarthi Parishad, most non-party organisations do not make the mistake of publicly committing themselves to a particular party, although they may support it, without any fanfare. In the case of the IESM, it is not just going public, but also incorrectly publicly stating (and in a press release) that ALL TWO MILLION EX-SERVICEMEN support the BJP and its allies. This is patently wrong. On top of it, Veterans are being exhorted to become field workers of the party - again something radically wrong for a segment of the population that is known for keeping its distance from all political parties. This aspect has been taken to the extreme by asking veterans to do so for even those parties aligned to the BJP, like the INLD of Chautala, whose nefarious activities when in power are well known. This mornings paper lists three out of five nominations of INLD for the Lok Sabha from Haryana as with criminal backgrounds; are we to vote for these scoundrels?
Yesterday, all local English language newspapers of Chandigarh carried large prominent front page advertisements as front page masts with a photograph of a soldier firing a LMG and adorned with photos of Prakash Badal, Advani and Sukhbir Badal, stating:
"Vote for SAD-BJP at the centre
For Implementation of
One Rank,
One Pension
SHIROMANI AKALI DAL AND BJP - Committed to our soldiers"
Has such an ad ever appeared earlier in any election? Comments of my civilian friends are "Why have the armed forces sold themselves to these politicos whose only aim is to win by hook or crook?"
The same SAD is instrumental in ensuring that the state government officials have dilly-dallied and not registered over 2000 serving personnel of Bhatinda Mil Stn, because they fear that they would be voting for the Congress!!
The armed forces have had a good working arrangement in the past with all political parties, at the centre as well as the states, and have done so with dignity. After this open alignment, for whatever reason, the equation can never be the same again and I am not talking only of the veterans.
I have no doubt that all veterans are thinking people and they will vote in accordance with their conscience and not according to the diktat of any organisation, but to the public at large the wrong message has already gone and will get intensified unless some correctives are initiated.
It will be worse for the armed forces if the BJP loses. For me the BJP is as good or as bad as any other party, but in future, first the veterans and thereafter the serving personnel are bound to suffer.
Two third of the voting is already over. I doubt if the IESM can retract at this stage, but they do need to reflect and try and not be openly committed. Any reference to ALL VETERANS, of course, must stop immediately.
Regards.
· Vijay Oberoi
(Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi, Former VCOAS)
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