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by Gaurav Tyagi 10 April 2019
Professor Ram Gopal Yadav an Indian politician belonging to
the Samajwadi Party and a member of Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Indian
Parliament) said on March 21st that the Pulwama terror attack on
CRPF (Central Reserve Police Personnel) on 14th February was an act
carried out by Modi government.
According to Professor Yadav Modi government
“killed” security personnel to serve its political interests during
the forthcoming Lok Sabha (National Parliamentary) elections due to be held in
seven phases from 11th April-19th May.
He said; “Once there is a new government, we will get this
investigated. Many big names will come out”
Modi government’s subsequent attack a few days later by
dispatching IAF (Indian Air Force) fighter jets into Pakistan to destroy a JEM
(Jaish-e-Mohammed) terror camp remains an operation shrouded in mystery.
The President of BJP (India’s political party in power),
Amit Shah claimed that 250 Pakistani terrorists were killed in that attack.
The International media’s take on this event;
London-based
Jane’s Defence Weekly, which tracks the defense industry said; “a lot of
intelligence sources say those camps in Pakistan had been cleaned out. This is more political symbolism than
anything else. Mr. Modi had to show some demonstrable action on India’s part,
ahead of elections.”
According to
Washington Post; “Initial reports from local police officials and residents who
spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that a strike took place in a
mountainous area a few miles outside town, but they said they saw no signs of
mass casualties.”
Daily
Telegraph reported; “Villagers in the area told Reuters they heard four loud
bangs in the early hours of Tuesday but reported only one person wounded by
shrapnel. “We saw trees fallen down and one house damaged and four craters
where the bombs had fallen,” said Mohammad Ajmal, a 25-year-old who visited the
site.
As per The
Guardian; “The attack was celebrated in India, but it was unclear whether
anything significant had been struck by the fighter jets, or whether the
operation had been carefully calibrated to ease popular anger over the 14
February suicide bombing without drawing a major Pakistani reprisal.”
Gulf News
stated; “From what villagers could see, the Indian attack had missed its target
as the bombs dropped exploded about a kilometre away from the madrasa. Fida
Hussain Shah, a 46 year-old farmer, said he and other villagers had found
pieces of Indian ordnance that had splintered pine trees on the hill but the
only casualty was a man sleeping in his house when shrapnel broke the windows.”
Pakistan
retaliated the very next day by sending its Air Force jets into Indian
air-space on 27th February. Indian fighter planes engaged them.
India’s statement that its air force shot down
one of Pakistan’s US-built F-16 aircraft during this aerial confrontation
appears untrue, according to a report by Washington DC-based Foreign Policy
magazine, which cited two US defense officials.
A US count of Pakistan’s F-16 jets revealed
none to be missing, the US officials told Foreign Policy, undercutting India’s
position that its air force shot down a Pakistan Air Force jet in a clash that
led to the loss of a Soviet-era Indian Air Force MiG-21 Bison.
The Indian
pilot after bailing out of his fighter jet was captured by the Pakistani
authorities. He was subsequently released by Pakistan largely due to
international intervention.
Modi
government therefore ended with ‘egg on its face’ from this episode.
BJP has
initiated a narrative in India wherein, anyone who questions Indian armed
forces is branded as an anti-national traitor.
There have
been several incidents of Indian Army Personnel being charged with sexual
offences while on UN (United Nations) peacekeeping operations in the African
continent.
The
author spent many years in Roorkee. This small town in Uttarakhand province has
a big army cantonment.
There
is an army training center next to Ganeshpur Bridge over Ganges Canal. In the
mornings and afternoons school girls use this route for bicycling to and from
their school.
Hundreds
of Indian army personnel daily harass these school girls by making nasty
comments and obscene gestures at them.
The Canteen Stores Department (CSD) is a solely owned Government of
India Enterprise under Ministry
of Defence
and has its depot in all major military bases operated by the Indian Armed Forces. They sell a wide
variety of products like household provisions, kitchen appliances, alcoholic
drinks, cars, sports equipment etc.
There have
been numerous corruption scandals of Indian army personnel illegally selling
the products procured from these CSD’s in the market.
Corruption is
an endemic phenomenon cutting across all Indian government departments. Defense
forces are not immune to it. Modi government hasn’t been able to tackle this
menace.
BJP is
indulging in shady military adventures as well as unnecessary glorification of
the Indian defense forces to seek votes in the forthcoming Indian parliamentary
elections. No institution or individual is beyond questioning in a democratic
set-up.
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