With malice towards all veterans who call themselves apolitical

SAINIK SAMAJ PARTY : NATION WIDE CLASS ROOM

1. Who are responsible for neglect of soldiers and the veterans over last 68 years of Independent India? Everyone will point the finger at Political Bosses and the Bureaucrats. But that is partly true.

2. The major blame must be apportioned to the veterans themselves. They have not been able to give themselves an identity. They were always busy calling themselves apolitical. Now this apolitical definition has done the irreparable harm to them. Politician and Bureaucrats coined the term apolitical for them and they bit this bullet. They sabotages the forces many ways but the elitist nature of the forces took it lying down. They did not care about the fighting soldiers to the extent that they ordered the likes of Army to fight 1962 Sino-Indian War/Conflict with 50 rounds of ammunition on weapon with no backup and taking position in High Altitude battle fields with summer clothing born on mainland. What a pathetic show..

3. Ladies and gentlemen, the armed forces can never be apolitical. Since military is the extension of politics. A Nation-State is driven by governments and the governments are driven by politics. Where politics fails the military steps in to stabilise the situation.

4. The armed forces of the state are NON-PARTISAN (not biased or partisan, especially towards any particular political group) but not apolitical. However, individual senior officer did had political Mai-Baap to protect their interests in successive promotions and thus developed partisan interests.

5. Needless to delve into the nitty-gritty of higher defence management, it will do lot better to veterans if they stop calling themselves APOLITICAL. Armed forces must be Multi-Partisan, taking orders from democratically elected government of the day. Every political party in the nation represents some section(s) of the society, and they are all honourable and respectable till the time they function under the parameters of Constitution of India democratically. However, the VETERANS or the ESM (popularly known as) community have to make choices whether they want to remain NON-PARTISAN after they hang their boots or want to actively delve in political field and take part in active politics.

6. Majority of Veterans on Social Media and email circuits keep quoting from US daily Lingua Franca about the praise showered on Veterans but they forget to appreciate that VETERANS in US donot call themselves APOLITICAL. They take active part in politics and shape the things for themselves.

7. I for one with my colleagues have decided to be political active and formed a political party by the name SAINIK SAMAJ PARTY. which means a party of CITIZEN SOLDIERS since this nation needs Discipline, Hard Work, Hard Decisions, Freedom from Sectarianism, and last but not the least a Strong and Stable political Governance System which represents majority of Indian and not just quarter of its population.

8. The day the veteran shed their APOLITICAL TAG, the things will start falling in place. Not Convinced? Just Try.

BHARATVARSH KI JAI.

Balbir Singh Parmar