Thursday, June 3, 2010

Army and its role?



The News channels are hot with stories about Kargil war which seems to be a joke played on the citizens of India who regard and keep the army at the highest esteem.  Unless proved otherwise, the confidence of people on the Indian army will be lost and start treating them as ordinary policemen on beat!  Adding salt to injury is the time when Army is called by State Administrations to rescue children who fall into bore-wells dug by any one and everyone, everywhere! This has become a regular feature for the army to exhibit this act of bravery just to reinstate  the confidence in the minds of people specially when News about Kargil war is believed to be fake?  There are hardly any wars fought these days and the army does not know what to do during this time?  Probably they also await calls from various quarters to rescue either a child from the bore well,  pull out a Samba Deer from a well from within a Raj Bhawan premises, or lend some of its cadres to subsidiary forces to throw a protective cordon around a politician and walk around with a sophisticated machine gun in hands!  The role of the army is beyond these social obligations and political compulsions.  On the other hand, there are these Maoists who massacre and murder as many para-military forces and civilians as they want any time, any where and get away Scot-free without traces. The government is not interested to call army or deploy them to tackle this problems and are hoping that the extremists would eventually turn up at the negotiating table, one day or the other!!  Yes, the belief may come true but then half of India's paramilitary forces and civilians would have been seen off from this planet!  The Defence Ministry and the Home Ministry should  come to an understanding to exchange positions in such a way that the Army does the role of Para-military and vice-verse?  As such, there are no wars fought  and this exercise can be given a fair trial so that the army is refreshed to fight another army of Maoists who are well equipped and mentally motivated to fight and kill people. This way, both the forces will justify their presence and for which they are trained!  There are stories that during peace time, the army jawans are ordered to dig up a huge pit somewhere and close it at the end of the day just to keep the jawans and the officers fit enough to muster courage at the time of a war! If this is true, my proposal to the army to switch sides with the Para-military would justify their recruitment and service to the nation.  Jai Hind!!

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