Date: 2009/5/9
Subject: Re: [MilitaryVeterans] The IESL/Gulia Imbroglio- a letter to Brig Gulia
Dear Brig Gulia,
A respected and accomplished veteran like you have done immense harm to yourself by not aligning yourself to the IESM. If OROP is sanctioned within the next year, ofcourse the credit must go to the IESM. If it does not, you will be accused of having played spoilsport. To avoid IESM getting credit for OROP, you will have to manoeuvre to stall it - and that will be both a sin, and a crime. Even a "parity" agreement with the present government will not give IESL a clean image, and IESL would have diluted the interests of the ESM.
IESL or IESM are not power plays- they are meant to push for the interests of the ESM. Be it Brig Gulia or General Kadian, how does it matter to Nk Sushil Oraon in Bhadruk Orissa or to Sep Onjha in Juamuli Jharkhand who fought for OROP and got it. The impression persists with PBOR that officers fight for themselves, and with each other for themselves. This is what is happenning now. A vibrant initiative is going the same way, thanks to your contribution (At least 50%, if not more).
How the results unfold we dont know but along the length and breadth of India (it extends beyond Haryana, Punjab and Delhi) IESL in not even generally known, Since the President of IESL/IESM are not lifelong assignments I hope that your successors and history will not accuse of frittering away an oppotunity, because of ego hassles.
I will not exhort you to join hands - better men than me have tried and failed. Far from the scene of action, the ESM know who is the villian.
I am sad-But Indians were always like this- Unable to unite nor see the future..
Best of Luck
NK
--- On Wed, 6/5/09, CK Sharma
From: CK Sharma
Subject: [MilitaryVeterans] The IESL/Gulia Imbroglio
To: "22 NDA GROUP" <22nda@googlegroups.com>, "84th/24th" <84thpc24thnav@googlegroups.com>, "IndianVeterans"
Date: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009, 1:32 PM
There have been a considerable number of you who -- possibly as members of the IESL -- have felt that we, in IESM, have made insufficient efforts to make peace with Gulia and IESL. Some of you have even said that it was probably due to the personal egos of some of us.
At the meeting that was held at the IESL HQ, ten of the IESM Core Group had turned up to try and patch up a unity. One of the pre-conditions set out by the IESL representatives had been that IESM would NOT say anything negative about IESL etc.
The unity efforts had failed.
Some of you may have seen this: it is important to read the trailing emails carefully to properly assess the unfortunate trend that is apparent in the 'thinking' process of Gulia.
I would like to record my personal appreciation, as well as that of the IESM Steering Committee, for the clear-thought process displayed by Cdr Ravi Pathak in his rebuttal.
Rest of you, please do read!
