1. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans THIS THREAD WILL SEE LOT OF RED FACES. Veterans have NO RIGHT to criticise anything happening in India for one simple reason, has that Veteran ever criticised or commented on ‘Colonial Practices’ of Army? WHY VETERANS DO NOT SPEAK UP?
2. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Will tell you WHY VETERANS DO NOT SPEAK UP, Why they see but select to keep quiet? What has boxed them into silence? What false pride is invoked to keep them quiet? How retired Generals exploit ‘religion’ to progress their careers?
3. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Will tell you how Veterans force the serving to be subservient to them for life? Will tell you what @adgpi with help of @drajaykumar_ias , @secyesw , @rajnathsingh and @PMOIndia must do to cut all ‘invisible’ connections to make a GREAT ARMY.
4. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Keep track of this thread.
5. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Will tell you WHY VETERANS DO NOT SPEAK UP ? The biggest dis-service the serving and veterans do to India is by selling a falsehood called ‘A Jawan Dies for his Paltan’. This one logic is belted in non military minds since with this one reason
6. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans a life long and permanent sealing of lips is achieved. It permits every officer to get away with blue murder. ‘Paltan Ki izzat’. Ask ANY soldier, retired or serving and they will answer ‘WE WILL DIE FOR INDIA’. Why is this ‘Paltan Ki Izzat’
7. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans stuff being sold? WHO BENEFITS? What is the benefit? Benefit is Sahayak for entire service whether authorised or not, manpower to assist in posting, favour me and I will see you get superb ACR, to Senior Officers the benefit goes in retirement
8. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans The core misuse is done by Infantry. 19-21 Regiments gave 15-25 Battalions each. EXCEPT ONE ( BRIGADE OF GUARDS) all are British Indian Army origin. Guards was raised after independence. While Infantry Regts gave region or caste composition
9. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans the Guards are all India composition which means that each state and any caste can join Guards. So this ‘Paltan Ki Izzat’ is misused for pure personal benefit. Each and every Jawan of Infantry, regardless of pre or post independence
10. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans will die for India. Secondly, ‘dying’ is not patented by Infantry. 70-80 Rashtriya Rifles Battalions were raised in 90’s for J&K Insurgency and terrorism. These are manned by 100% units of Indian Army, all castes all India. These see highest
11. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans number of Killed in Action. Artillery, Armoured, Engineers, Air Defence, ASC, AOC, I mean, you name a corps and soldiers are dying. EACH DIES FOR INDIA. See 527 Killed in Action in 1999, every arm and service has fair share in deaths.
12. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans So who actually sells this ‘Paltan Ki Izzat’ stuff? Armoured has 80 odd units, Artillery has over 300, Air Defence over 100, Engineers over 100 and numerous such units of other arms and services. Are we to say that NONE has ‘Paltan Ki Izzat’?
13. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Paltan Ki Izzat in Infantry simply means that all upwardly mobile officers look after their select juniors and provide career cover for their rise in exchange for that junior to look after ‘needs’ of this Paltan Senior in AND when out of Army
14. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Now go back to my question ‘Why don’t veterans squeak?’ Will they? First the Paltan, Say JAK RIFLES OR any of the balance 18- Regts, No Veteran will ever speak against HIS regiment type veteran however obnoxious be the veteran.
15. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Now each Regiment has 18-20 Battalions, No Veteran will speak a word against any other veteran from same regiment regardless of how horrible that veteran is. Next. Combine all 18-20 Regiments, it’s Infantry, now no Veteran will speak a word
16. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans against a fellow infantry officer veteran come what may. Extend the same to Armoured Corps. Extend it to Artillery. Extend it to every arm and service. Not one Veteran will criticise another even if each veteran knows how horrific the guy is.
17. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Now, add National Defence Academy products- not one will speak about another NDA guy regardless of seniority and irrespective of which arm or service he is in. Same goes for all entries. None speaks against other. WORST CRIMES can be hidden.
18. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Now add RANKS. A Retired Lt General will safeguard 100% Retd Generals and 100% Retd Lt Generals. All Retd Major Generals do the same. Now remember as you go down the chain at a point people are serving. It goes deep down. None speak.
19. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans The understanding is simple. No one speaks. Hide all ills. Never let people know. Use ‘don’t wash dirty linen in public’ logic. Use ‘paltan ki izzat’ logic. It is seriously followed because most serving owe their rank to the seniors.
20. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans These seniors are either serving or retired. These are invisible strings that run Army. Very important that these strings are cut. TRUST ME, a veteran will die but not stop trying. So what is the way out? Make Army ‘All India Class’.
21. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Just 10-12% Army has class system, 88% is all India class. Make it 100%. Retired Generals most shamelessly play Hindu Card, Muslim Card, Paltan Card, Izzat Card for personal gains. Soon as Govt gives them a post, they vanish. TO BE CONTINUED
22. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Now are all 21 tweets ‘harmless’ for INDIA? Or are they causing deep harm? Will give just two examples to think ‘Exemption of Toll Tax to Serving’ brings thousands and thousands of veterans to criticise Govt for years but same veterans NEVER
23. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans question 20 murders in Galwan. Thousands and Thousands of Veterans abuse Government over OROP but conveniently skip 527 murders on 1999. Retired Armoured Corps Generals boast about TANKS but none talks why light tanks in Ladakh are not there.
24. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans This dangerous trend has compromised national security over personal games. Everyone talks about GDB being rabid but most conveniently they miss out another General who played Muslim card so openly. Your understand silence? Wait for more.
25. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans CONTINUING. This thread is about ‘SELECTIVE SILENCE’ of Veterans. When it comes to miserable practices, nepotism in uniform, invisible control of veterans on serving personnel & requirement of radical military reforms, You will get SILENCE.
26. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans When it comes to life of soldiers after retirement, life of forces widows, discrimination on pensions of widows, non effective ECHS and CSD in rural areas, no direct connect with MoD etc., YOU WILL GET SILENT VETERANS.
27. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans When it comes to poor documentation of soldiers affecting retired, no grants teaching them, Disability Pension INDUSTRY, 18 Armed Forces Tribunals not functioning etc., trust me you will get SILENT VETERANS.
28. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans When it comes to explaining benefits of OROP case in Supreme Court, little/no benefit to jawans, exploitation of jawans by lawyers in AFT for disability cases etc., you can expect 100% SILENCE FROM VETERANS. Now….Now….Now….
29. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans It is not below dignity for retired Lt Generals and retired Major Generals to write. They don’t because they are clueless. Show me one article. Most Retired Brigs and Retired Colonels are silent due to one/all of below: 1. Clueless 2. Lanyard
30. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Nepotism 3. They are EARNING out of these issues. So? Of 24-26 lac veterans and 3-4 lac Forces Widows, BEST is to avoid this minefield. Let veteran soldiers and widows suffer. SANNU KI TE SADDA KI? So what do veterans speak for?
31. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans 1. OROP case in Supreme Court because it benefits officers the most. 2. Bureaucrat Bashing since their complete shortcomings are hidden behind them. 3. Toll Plaza Tax exemption, despite knowing it is not applicable to veterans. 4.Disability
32. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans Pension denial by MoD to deflect attention from fact that ALL lawyers are retired Armed Forces Officers 5. Mundane and useless issues like ‘Abide With Me’, ‘Monica O My Darling’. 6. Promoting each other by showering praises to hide own
33. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans shortcomings. 7. Play Golf, Gin-n-tonic and 24X7 on teaching mode. Point being DO NOT SPEAK. What stops them? Lanyard, Beret Colour, Regiment, Paltan, Entry Institution etc. ensures that even when a senior says DUMBEST of things, WE KEEP QUIET
34. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans See the HashTags It’s Colonial mindset. British Officers discovered ‘Gaon ki Izzat’ ‘गाँव की इज़्ज़त’, ‘Jaat ki Izzat’ ‘जात की इज़्ज़त’, ‘kunabe ki izzat’ ‘कुनबे की इज़्ज़त’ and more such things to discipline units. That’s why caste based and
35. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans region based units. The news travelled back and family for fear of ostracised disciplined members. WE EXPLOIT IT TODAY TOO. Shame. Now instead of British, we as officers exercise it. Gora Sahab replaced by Brown Sahab. Need to BREAK IT.
36. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans What follows now is the POSITIVE PART OF THIS THREAD. It took, in 1984, less than 10 years to have fully Mechanised Infantry which was made up from Infantry Bns. In 1993-94 first Rashtriya Rifles Battalion was raised from Infantry plus
37. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans soldiers from Artillery, Armoured, AD and almost every arm and service. By 2000 the RR was most effective. All of these were All India Class with different percentages. All were absolutely effective with everyone ready to die for INDIA.
38. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans I would suggest major changes that need to be implemented in 2022 to make Indian Army completely Indian with everyone ready to fight and die for India and to completely wipe out British legacy of divide by caste and religion. For strong
39. #ColonialArmy #HypocriteVeterans India we need strong Army made of 100% units with ALL INDIA CLASS. Will put suggestions soon. Request attention of @PMOIndia @rajnathsingh @AmitShah @drajaykumar_ias @secyesw @HQ_IDS_India @adgpi

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