When saved lives have lesser value than hurt egos
Congratulations Major Leetul Gogoi. I wish i knew you and could shake your hands or maybe have a drink together. You hit them where it hurt the most without firing a single bullet or blow. You upheld democracy, saving the lives of polling officials, the J&K police and the ITBP who sent an SOS call to survive imminent manslaughter from a mob of 900 stone pelters. Their own forces could have come in numbers and helped with a violent dispersal of the mob using rubber bullets, or pellets or tear-gas or anything else at their disposal to ensure the safety of their fellow policemen. But then again, why would their employers even care about 9 policemen and do anything to jeopardise their benefits from the riches of the 7th pay commission. And so the Army was called in and you and your team had the enviable honour of responding to the situation. Of course the OG had every right to tell the Khakis to sort it out themselves and could have stood back and watched like the Khakis usuall