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 usually do elsewhere in the civilised world during uncivil incidents, but you went anyway, to fulfill the very same Army ethos of which you are now held guilty of not upkeeping (by no less than retired Generals) in your conduct of the operation.
Maybe if like in some Hollywood movies, you would find yourself back in the same battle again and again just after having come out of it, try hitting the pause button and lets replace you with every one of them who took issue with the step you took to save lives. It would be fun to watch what they did under the exact same circumstances when put in your position. Some battle inoculation would also be possible if we replaced them with the amazingly restrained CRPF soldiers who got kicked and manhandled by the stone pelters a few days before your meaningless act of saving some lives.
Leetul Gogoi, you could have been as trigger happy as some twitter happy folks, but your great Indian rope trick denied them a victory they wanted to script with the blood of their own people.
Let the naysayers take umbrage, that is their constitutional right, but let them take it standing beside those for whom they speak and not behind those whom they stab.
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 usually do elsewhere in the civilised world during uncivil incidents, but you went anyway, to fulfill the very same Army ethos of which you are now held guilty of not upkeeping (by no less than retired Generals) in your conduct of the operation.
Maybe if like in some Hollywood movies, you would find yourself back in the same battle again and again just after having come out of it, try hitting the pause button and lets replace you with every one of them who took issue with the step you took to save lives. It would be fun to watch what they did under the exact same circumstances when put in your position. Some battle inoculation would also be possible if we replaced them with the amazingly restrained CRPF soldiers who got kicked and manhandled by the stone pelters a few days before your meaningless act of saving some lives.
Leetul Gogoi, you could have been as trigger happy as some twitter happy folks, but your great Indian rope trick denied them a victory they wanted to script with the blood of their own people.
Let the naysayers take umbrage, that is their constitutional right, but let them take it standing beside those for whom they speak and not behind those whom they stab.
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