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Brij Mohan Kaul
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Brij Mohan Kaul was the controversial general who resigned in the aftermath of the Indian military debacle against the Chinese in the 1962 Sino-Indian War. He was a distant kinsman of Jawaharlal Nehru.
He was a Kings Commissioned Indian Officer from Sandhurst (1933), who was an infantry officer with the East Surrey Regiment, who later switched to the Army Supply Corps during the end of Second World War, because ASC was a higher paying job and he needed the money for treatment of his ailing stepmother. He served as the divisional commander of 4th Infantry Division, Chief of General Staff and finally as the commander of IV Corps during the 1962 War.
He was also the first ever recipient of the Param Vishisht Seva Medal instituted by the Government in 1960. His citation reads : for successfully completing the project 'Amar' which entailed the construction of 1,450 quarters for troops in Ambala. This was the first project of its kind and was completed through hot weather and the monsoons in the face of numerous problems. Lt.-Gen. Kaul overcame these difficulties by dint of hard work and initiative of the highest order. He displayed organising ability, drive, and resourcefulness. It was by his determination, leadership and personal example that the task was completed by due date. [1]
He wrote his side of the story in the book The Untold Story.
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Declassify 1962 Sino-Indian war inquiry report
The Delhi High Court on July 16 directed the Union government to place before it the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report. The court issued a notice to the government to file its response on a petition filed by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar.
The report, lying with the Defence Ministry for over 45 years now, was a result of the government inquiry into the humiliating defeat at the hands of China in the 1962 border war.
The Indian government’s record in declassifying past records is appalling compared to mature democracies like the United States where even war secrets are declassified after the usual 30-year period.
In the “world’s largest democracy”, important documents relating to our history are not made public on flimsy grounds.
The India-China war was an eye-opener for India. But even after 45 years, the people of India are not aware of the circumstances and reasons that led to India’s defeat. The popular belief among the masses is that China betrayed Indian trust and attacked our defences in the Ladakh and North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region.
But the government inquiry into the defeat (Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report – still classified but some details available in Neville Maxwell’s article on the 1962 war), the official history of the Government of India (1992), declassified documents from China and United States of America, and a huge amount of research on the subject by Indian analysts and experts reveal startling facts about the war.
If you want to read more about the subject, you can download the official Indian history of the war, which was published by the History division of the Ministry of Defence in 1992.
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The Delhi High Court on July 16 directed the Union government to place before it the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat Report. The court issued a notice to the government to file its response on a petition filed by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar.
The report, lying with the Defence Ministry for over 45 years now, was a result of the government inquiry into the humiliating defeat at the hands of China in the 1962 border war.
V. K. Krishna Menon
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Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon | |
 V. K. Krishna Menon | |
| In office 1957 – 1962 | |
| In office 1962 – 1969 | |
| Born | 3 May 1896(1896-05-03) Calicut, Kerala |
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| Died | 6 October 1974 (aged 78) Delhi |
| Nationality |  Indian |
| Religion | Hinduism |
Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon (3 May 1896 - 6 October 1974) was an Indian nationalist and politician.
[edit] Early life
Menon was born at Panniyankara in Kozhikkode, Kerala, in the powerful Vengalil family of Southern India. His mother was the granddaughter of Raman Menon who had been the Dewan of Travancore between 1815 and 1817, serving HH Maharani Gowri Parvati Bayi. His father Komathu Krishna Kurup was the son of the Rajah of Kadathanadu and a wealthy and influential lawyer of the Calicut Bar. His sister was married to the last Maharajah of Cochin. Menon had his early education in Thalasherry and he took his B. A. degree from Presidency College, Chennai.
While in college, he started taking an active interest in the communist movement. While studying in the Law College of Madras, he became involved in Theosophy and was actively associated with Annie Besant and the Home Rule Movement. He was a leading member of the 'Brothers of Service', founded by Annie Besant who spotted his gifts and helped him travel to England in 1924.
[edit] Life & Activities in England
In London, Menon pursued further education at the London School of Economics and University College London, and at the same time he became a passionate proponent of India's freedom.
In England, he worked as a journalist and secretary (1929 - 1947) of the India League, and became associated with fellow Indian nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1934 he was admitted to the English bar, and after joining the Labour Party he was elected borough councillor of St. Pancras, London. St. Pancras later conferred on him the Freedom of the Borough, the only other person so honoured being Bernard Shaw. In 1932 he inspired a fact-finding delegation headed by Labour MP Ellen Wilkinson to visit India. Menon served as its Secretary and edited its report entitled 'Conditions In India'. During the thirties he founded with Allen Lane the Penguin and Pelican paper back books. He worked as an editor for Bodley Head, Penguin and Pelican Books, and the Twentieth Century Library.
[edit] High Commission 1947-52
After India gained independence in 1947, Menon was appointed high commissioner to the United Kingdom, a post in which he remained until 1952. Subsequently, he led the Indian delegation to the United Nations (1952 - 1962), where he adopted a policy of non-alignment, loudly criticizing the United States and voicing support for the People's Republic of China. On 23 January 1957 he delivered an unprecedented 8-hour speech defending India’s stand on Kashmir. To date, Krishna Menon’s speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council.[1]
[edit] Election to Parliament
Krishna Menon became a member of the Rajya Sabha in 1953. On February 3, 1956, he joined the Union Cabinet as Minister without Portfolio. In 1957 he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bombay, and in April of that year he was named minister of defence under Prime Minister Nehru. However, after India's staggering defeat in the Sino-Indian War of 1962, he resigned from office for the country's lack of military preparedness. In 1967 he lost his parliamentary seat but was re-elected in 1969 from Midnapore. Again he was elected to the Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Constituency. He died on October 6, 1974 in New Delhi. During his tenure as the High commissioner to Britain, he was accused of being involved in a corruption scam involving the purchase of used military jeeps from Britain to supply to the Indian army during the war with Pakistan in 1948.
He was behind the conception of Sainik Schools in India, under the aegis of Sainik School Society, which runs over 24 schools across India.
[edit] Play
Yours Krishna Menon, a period play by Lalit Mohan Joshi staged in 2007 at the Nehru Centre in London, portrays Menon’s zeal in the fight for India's independence during his long stay in London. Lalit met with Menon's biographer, TJS George, to interview him for the play. The play, like the book, is a subjective rendering of the dramatic events in Menon’s life. By documenting his outstanding contribution to the cause of India’s freedom, the play seeks to counter the negative media image that has hounded Menon.[2]
[edit] Further Reading
Krishna Menon, TJS George. 1964, Jonathan Cape; 1965, Taplinger.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
- P. N. Haksar: Krishna: As I knew him
- Statements by V. K. Krishna Menon at the United Nations
- Theft of two statues of Menon from a London park
- Neglect of Krishna Menon memorial project alleged
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Statements by Mr. V. K. Krishna Menon
Statement at the Eighth Session of the UN General Assembly, September 28,1953
Statement at the Ninth Session of the UN General Assembly, October 6, 1954
Statement at the Eleventh Session of the UN General Assembly, December 6,
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Statement at the Twelfith Session of the UN General Assembly, October 8, 1957
Statement at the Thirteenth Session of the UN General Assembly, October 7,
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Statement at the Fourteenth Session of the UN General Assembly, October 6,1959
Statement by Mr. Krishna Menon in the Security Council, January 23,1957 about JAMMU & KASHMIR
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The art of making enemies ALL of us feel irritated by bores or fools and have little patience with those whose opinions differ from ours. Nonetheless we put up with them because we don’t want to hurt their feelings. But there are some who have no such inhibitions, and a few who actually seem to take a perverse pleasure in showing their resentment openly, particularly when they know that, because of their exalted positions, they themselves are immune from retaliation. Perhaps the most glaring example of someone making his subordinates feel embarrassed in public was Krishna Menon, whom Jawaharlal Nehru had, as it were, handpicked from a garret obscurity in London to become the Country’s Defence Minister. A vivid pen-portrait of Mr Menon is provided by Lieutenant General B.M. Kaul, in his book, ‘The Untold Story’. Menon, it seems, made almost a habit of sending for senior military and civil officers "on Sundays and at awkward times...to discuss what he told them were urgent problems." One night Kaul was woken up from deep sleep at 3 a.m. by the ringing of his bedside telephone. "Menon speaking", the voice said: "Could you come to my house for a few minutes? I have something very important...." |
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Kaul made so bold as to reply: "I haven’t the foggiest idea, sir. I don’t deal with the procurement of horses." He explained to Menon that the Polish horses were likely to be in the field of the Quarter Master General’s purview. He does not record whether the minister then proceeded to call up the QMG to find out about the Polish horses. Another Menon custom was to make sure that his routine conferences were packed with high-ranking military and civil-service officers, "on the pretext that some urgent matter needed immediate" resolution. When, after a whole lot of brass hats and secretaries had assembled in his conference room, he himself would show up, looking utterly bored "as if some riff-raff were around him," and so Kaul tells us, "sometimes actually dozed off." Kaul tells us that these meetings did not have any agendas, and that no one so much as kept a record of the proceedings, so that the impression they left on the minds of those who had been made to attend them was that they were merely an exercise in muscle-flexing on the part of their minister. Kaul describes how savagely Menon treated some of those who attended them. Once when a senior general began his statement with the words, "Sir, I think..." Menon cut him short by interrupting, "Soldiers are incapable of thinking." But then sailors too, were even-handedly insulted. For instance when an admiral began his address by saying, ‘Sir, the navy..." Sir, the navy..." Menon completed his sentence by pronouncing... "should be at the bottom of the sea." These generals and admirals whom Krishna Menon made the targets of his derision and insults were collectively responsible for keeping the nation’s war machine in a high state of efficiency and readiness. The efficacy of that war-machine was soon to be put to the test when, in the winter of 1962, a shooting war broke out between India and China. The inglorious reverses suffered by our army and the repercussions that they generated brought about Krishna Menon’s fall from power. But at what a price? Heads rolled, one of them being that of General Kaul himself who had been something of a rising star. The military heirarchy was given a violent shaking. Few among the new faces could have felt much sympathy for Krishna Menon’s exit from their midst. It is, of course, possible that Krishna Menon had good reason to feel dissatisfied with the ‘old-boy’ network of the armed forces that had been a legacy of the Raj. At that, he himself had gone a long way to antagonising the core element of the armed services. Surely there are subtler ways of putting people in their places without actually drawing blood! More civilised ways of registering boredom or even disdain? Lord Salisbury, who became Britain’s Prime Minister towards the end of the 19th century when Britain was master of an empire on which the sun never stopped shining. His Lordship’s way of registering extreme boredom or even disdain for his fellow parliamentarians was not by dishing out insults but by employing subtler means of censure. Once, in the House of Lords, when a member was holding forth about something or the other, Salisbury was heard to inquire who the speaker was, and then, on the name being revealed, he was heard by his neighbours to exclaim: "Good God! but I thought he was dead!" Salisbury, like most people in high positions, had little time to spare for those whose opinions differed from his. Whenever he was displeased with whatever was being said on the floor of the house, he would shake his legs vigorously and at times actually stamp his feet so hard that "it shook the floor and made the furniture rattle." At that, in have ‘exerted a personal charm upon his close colleagues." Another world leader who, too, could ooze charm at will but became more known for her quite devastating manner of dealing with those who opposed her politics, was Indira Gandhi, who, in the pursuit of this trait became altogether dictatorial. Her way of silencing them was to fling them into jail without trial. Inevitably and, maybe to her secret pride, Indira Gandhi began to spoken of as an avatar of Durga. When she was roused to anger, she certainly had nothing to learn from Krishna Menon in the severity of her invective. The quite monumental tantrum she threw to show her displeasure at something her youthful daughter-in-law, Menaka Gandhi, had done or failed to do, had all the crudeness of a street brawl. And yet, in her day-to-day dealings with sacred-cow public figures who differed with her policies, she had reduced the way of showing her remoteness from them to an art form. Studied indifference. One such person was J.R.D. Tata, a colossus of his times who had also known Indira Gandhi from her childhood. Whenever he happened to be in Delhi, Mr Tata asked to see Mrs Gandhi. At their meetings, while Mr Tata was earnestly trying to put forward a point of view, Indira Gandhi, for her part, basined herself with some trivial activity such as slitting open a letter, or looking for something in her handbag, or merely rearranging the papers on her desk. Mr Tata could have been left under no illusion, that she had absolutely no interest in whatever he was saying. Lyndon Johnson who became America’s President, may be said to fill the gap between Krishna Menon’s bare-knuckled slights and Lord Salisbury’s stamping of his feet to register boredom. He almost made a habit of baiting his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey. Johnson would call Humphrey to come and see him at odd hours on the pretext that there was something important that needed to be discussed, and generally treated him "as a staff sergeant might treat a private," as Humphrey himself put it. Hubert Humphrey rather prided himself on his oratorial powers, and may have felt flattered when Johnson during one of their meetings, asked him to repeat an entire speech he had recently given, "as if before an audience." Then, when Humphrey was in the full flow of a thundering oration. Johnson went into the bathroom but left the door open, calling over his shoulders as he urinated "Keep talking, Hubert. I’m listening!"
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Congress Betrayal: How Nehru and Krishna Menon conspired against India in run upto the 1961 Indo-China War
VK Krishna Menon was one person who, while remaining under the wings of Nehru, could be considered as the person who probably defined the "Leftist" leanings of our polity and betrayed India's cause with his links to Soviets and the Chinese. Many prominent high level Ministers and leaders distrusted him at that time. In fact, Sardar Patel (who wanted him out of favor, but could not due to his proximity to Nehru) had appointed a spy on Menon in the UK office, Sudhir Ghosh, PRO at India House. Menon obviously was smart enough to get Ghosh out of UK soon.[2]
During his UK days, Krishna Menon was involved in the "Jeep Scandal", which was the first attempt by an Indian politician (then a bureaucrat) to weaken the Indian Defense Forces for personal gain (and probably for that of his own Espionage masters - Communist, in this case).
Jeep Scandal: VK Krishna Menon was the High Commissioner to UK, when the deal with a UK company was done to buy the Jeeps for the Indian Army. They were rejected by the Indian Army as they were sub standard. But they had to be used as they had been paid for. Due to the political and media pressure he resigned but was hired as the Union Defense Minister by Nehru. As soon as he became the Defense Minister, the case against the company which was the front, was dropped by the Government.[1]
Menon was also of great interest to the British and US intelligence services. His ambitiion and leftist relationships were noted by even CIA in 1951 [5]:
"The potential for [communist] infiltration of the [Indian] armed forces is probably enhanced by the fact that Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon is a member of the extreme left wing of the Congress Party and has associated with known Communists and fellow travelers. He is highly ambitious and would probably cooperate with and accept support from any group which might enhance his prospects for becoming Prime Minister."
He was also known to take drugs ("illegal recreational drugs") in his time in UK. The MI5 files describe Menon as "a sick man whose relations with fellows can never be normal or happy" and "utterly unscrupulous...impairing the whole conduct of India's foreign relations..."[4]
If he had simply done rotten deals as an ambassador, that would still be Ok... but the foolish and the naive Nehru installed him as the Indian Defense Minister AFTER such a scandal! The amount of damage that he did there had been incalculable! Specially given, that it was right during his stint that the Chinese War of 1961 took place and India lost terribly!
FM Sam Maneckshaw took Menon on in the year before the China War on National Security and how Menon had undermined it as the Defense Minister - who obviously was not very happy. The defeat in the war against China was as much due to neglect and treachery of the politicians like Menon and Nehru as due bad preparation and strategy on part of General Kaul.
Even Nehru's obvious and shameless betrayal of India's national interest and Defense is noted in Parliament itself![6]
From angry words thrown at India, the Chinese Reds moved to actions against it: the frontier post of Longju in India's North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) was seized; Indian patrols were taken prisoner; Nehru made the shamefaced admission that he had kept secret from Parliament the fact that the Chinese two years before had built a road through Indian territory linking Tibet and the Chinese province of Sinkiang.
The uncovering of this piece of critical information about the Chinese designs was a feat of great espionage from the Indian intelligence in London (obviously despite the gaze of Menon!)[7]
An intelligence operative at the Indian High Commission in London who went by the name "Singh" seemed to know about Wignall's permission from the Nepal government to climb Nalkankar (7,100m) and approached him to see if he could slip into Tibet and climb Gurla Mandhata (7728m). From that vantage point, it would have been easy to pick up information on any Chinese military activity. From the account in his book, Spy on the Roof of the World, Wignall appears to have willingly agreed to be a spy. But he didn't tell the rest of his team. As it turned out, the Chinese were right when they arrested the three expedition members on the slopes of Nalkankar for being on a spying mission. Wignall managed to gather information even during his detention about a strategic highway the Chinese were building towards western Tibet, and an estimate of the garrison strength at Taklakot. But this information didn't do the Indians much good, since Nehru and Menon ignored it and were caught unawares when the Sino-Indian war erupted in 1962 during which large numbers of Indian soldiers, including Nepali Gorkhas, were killed in the icy mountains of Arunachal Pradesh and Askai Chin.
How this road - which the Indian Army knew about but was instructed NOT to safeguard .. went onto create the conduit for war ammunition can probably be elaborated by a defense personnel better. But just as Nehru held a secret from the Nation, Krishna Menon, instructed Lt. General Thimayya to NOT safeguard that road which the Chinese constructed with an obvious goal in mind:
Cross-questioning India's Army Chief of Staff. Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, he (Morarji Desai) asked when he first knew about the road. In 1957, said the general, and he had offered proposals to safeguard the security of India, but they were turned down by the Defense Minister, lean, rancorous V. K. Krishna Menon. "Why?" asked Desai. "Because," replied Thimayya, "he said that the enemy was on the other side [i.e., Pakistan], not on this side."
Such was the treachery of Krishna Menon that General Thimayya had threatened to leave the Army than continue with the betrayal!
Worst is that while the Chinese were occupying the Indian territory, Krishna Menon was making a case in the UN for the Chinese AGAINST the Tibetans! And Nehru was busy drumming up support for himself and his buddy Krishna Menon as the Defense Minister in the Indian Parliament and Press [6] - who were obviously and clearly done in by his eloquence! No wonder, that Indians even today look at this family and its shameless eloquence-sans-substance for our salvation!
At the opening of Parliament, Nehru further dazzled and delighted Indians by warning that "any aggression" against the small states of the Himalayas would be considered as aggression against India, and won cheers with his pledge that "if war is thrust upon us we shall fight with all our strength!" He even took time out to give support and tribute to Defense Minister Krishna Menon and won for them both an overwhelming voice vote of confidence. The very newspapers that had been accusing Nehru for months of dereliction of duty cried their "unreserved agreement" with Nehru's policy. The Indian Express, formerly his most savage critic, promised that "in his new, bold and unequivocal stand, Mr. Nehru is assured of the unstinted support of all parties and of the people."
And with the case made, and caution thrown to the winds - wintery and snowy - Nehru went back to his cocoon until a later day... when he would be visited by the entire fury of Chinese War.. and Indian people were visited by the Treachery of its politicians - Krishna Menon and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Last week India appeared to be a harmonious whole, astir with a new sense of its own nationalism. At the west coast city of Ahmedabad, 400,000 people had thronged together to hold darshan with Panditji Nehru and hear him speak. Said Nehru, grandly: "I am trying, and will try, to reciprocate your love." Up in the Himalayas, winter was closing in. As deep snows and raging blizzards block the high passes, there is a widespread feeling in India that there will be no more trouble with China until next spring or summer. Suppose that then the Red Chinese grab off even more of India's northern border regions? No one was ready with an answer, but no one seemed to feel the need of one just now. Having blown off steam, the Indian Parliament, press and public was back in the comforting and protective shade of the big banyan tree.
Meanwhile here is what the archives in the British Intelligence [3] say about VK Krishna Menon. The Ms. Tunnard mentioned in this piece is Bridget Tunnard of the Indian League, who was the mistress of this "life-long bachelor"!
These six files document the Security Service´s interest between 1929 and 1955 in the Indian lawyer Krishna Menon, who was a friend of Nehru, Labour councillor for St Pancras and leader of the Indian League in London. He spent most of this time living in the UK, and was appointed High Commissioner in 1947, when his close links to Communists acted to block the sharing of British information with not only India, but also Pakistan, for fear that the two new states would compare their treatment by the British.
A warrant to intercept Menon´s correspondence was taken out in December 1933, identifying him as an "important worker in the Indian Revolutionary Movement", and his links to Communist circles were quickly established (KV 2/2509, 1929-1941). This file contains numerous reports of Menon´s contacts, activities and speeches, and highlights his role in the anti-war movement. This continues in KV 2/2510 (1941-1944). KV 2/2511(1944-1948) covers his readmission to the Labour Party, from which he had been expelled for his Communist links, and his attempts to gain selection as the party candidate in Dundee and elsewhere in the 1945 general election. It also covers his appointment as Indian High Commissioner in London in 1947.
Menon´s elevation to this post increased the Service´s concerns about him. The Deputy Director-General minuted (in KV 2/2512, 1949-1951) in May 1949: "Whatever his politics may be, and they appear to go fairly far to the Left, MENON is clearly dishonest, immoral an opportunist and an intriguer…whether or not MENON´s retention as High Commissioner is the lesser of two evils, the relations between him and Miss TUNNARD…are of considerable importance." The matter of Communist influence at the High Commission was raised at the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), in discussions that were not minuted. A copy of the Director-General´s statement on the subject to the JIC is at serial 148b, and there is a list of suspected Communists at the High Commission at serial 197a. The file also includes suggestions that Menon was improperly using the funds of the India League, and that he was taking illegal drugs (for instance, at serial 199a). This file covers discussions about the impossibility of passing sensitive information to or through the Indian High Commission, and how that in turn prevented similar information being shared with Pakistan.
KV 2/2513 (1951-1953) covers the period when Menon was replaced as High Commissioner by G B Kher, and shows how Kher was frequently embarrassed by Menon acting as if he still represented India in London and forcing himself into various diplomatic events. These tensions continue into KV 2/2514 (1953-1955) which also covers Menon´s attempts to be entrusted with the post of Foreign Minister.
Reference Links:
1. Remembering a War
2. Left out by history
3. British Archives on Krishna Menon
4. 'VK Menon: A Commie, druggie and lover'.
5. There was a big-time mole in 1961 as well !
6. "The Shade of the Big Banyan"; TIME Dec 14, 1959
7. "I didn't know they were spies"
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West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who is also a central committee member, gave the party forum a brief on the recent happenings at Lalgarh including the kidnapping of the office-in-charge of Sankrail police station and killings of two police officials by the Maoists.
It is learnt that the CC took strong exception to the killings and abduction and gave the state CPM leadership a free hand to deal with the issue.
The central committee also adopted a resolution condemning the killings of 124 of their party activists and sympathisers. “The central committee salutes the 124 martyrs who have been killed in the pre and post-poll violence unleashed by the anti-Left forces in various parts of West Bengal between March 3 and October 22,” the resolution said.
It also said “More than half of these 124 martyrs were killed by the Maoists gangs. 120 of them belonged to CPM, while four belonged to other Left parties. Two of the victims were children from families of CPM activists.” In its resolution, CPM also stated that “the central committee salutes the memory of these comrades who have become victims of depredations of extremist Maoist gangs and the Trinamool Congress party combine.”
“These brave martyrs laid down their lives holding aloft the red banner of the party and its cause. The central committee is confident that the ultimate sacrifice of these comrades will not go in vain,” the CPM said in its resolution.
Meanwhile, the CPM state leadership has urged the state government to initiate measures on a priority basis to find out two other police officials.
The state government is now talking of “some strategies” to prevent the recurrence of incidents like the abduction of police officer Atindranath Dutta by Maoists, a top official here.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao met at Cha-Am Hua Hin in Thailand today to discuss bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual concern against the backdrop of the war of words between the two neighbours over Arunachal Pradesh.
Singh, who arrived here on Friday, and Wen held crucial bilateral talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in this Thai beach resort.
In his opening remarks during the meeting, Wen said "we want to have healthy and steady relationship with India." Prime Minister Singh congratulated Wen on 60th anniversary of the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
Their meeting came as the two countries struck conciliatory notes after provocative statements from China on Arunachal Pradesh evoked a sharp reaction from India.
China regards Arunachal Pradesh a disputed territory and objected to Prime Minister Singh's visit there for assembly polls, triggering sharp reaction from India which asserted that the state is an integral part of the country.
"Bilateral relationship will be in focus," Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said last night ahead of the meeting between Singh and Wen.
Rao said the relationship between the two countries is a "complex one" though it has "developed in many areas" in recent years.
"You are aware of the outstanding issues that remain to be resolved between India and China and obviously in meetings of this nature, especially meetings between leadership at the highest level, there is an opportunity to address all these issues," Rao said.
While receiving Singh warmly at the venue of the meeting in Dusit Thani hotel, Wen described him as an old friend and recalled their several previous meetings. "In the years ahead we are confident that we will have good relations," the Chinese Premier said.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, Prime Minister's Principal Secretary TKA Nair and Joint Secretary (East Asia) N Ravi attended the meeting from the Indian side.
Other issues which recently led to a verbal spat between the two fastest growing economies in the world included China issuing visas to people from Jammu and Kashmir on loose sheets. India had also said that the Chinese developmental activities in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir were not in the interest of the Sino-India ties.
Concerns have also been expressed, especially by the north-eastern states like Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, over reports of China building dams on its side of the river Brahmputra.
However, in the last few days conciliatory tones were heard from both New Delhi and Beijing. Senior functionaries of both the countries said the border issue could be resolved by dialogue.
Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Hu Zhengyue had said in Beijing on Wednesday that Wen and Singh would discuss "bilateral relations and regional and international issues" during their meeting.
"This meeting between the two Prime Ministers is a very important one," Hu had said. "There has been good progress in our bilateral relationship and we hope this momentum can be sustained."
Prime Minister Singh has a busy schedule for the next two days with seven bilateral engagements, including a meeting with Japanese Premier Yukio Hotoyama, apart from attending India-ASEAN meet and East Asia Summit.
50% MLAs voted to power in three states are crorepatis
An analysis by National Election Watch (NEW) goes further to extrapolate that deeper a candidate’s pockets, better his/her chances of winning. And the number of moneybags is rising. The number of MLAs in Maharashtra who have assets of over a crore is 184 this year or 63.89%, up from 2004’s 108.
Similar figures for Haryana are up from 47 in 2004 elections to 65 in 2009 or 72.22%. Arunachal elected 35 or 58.33% of the total candidates, up from 17 in 2004.
“NEW looked at the contesting candidates and their chances of success and found that the more money you have, better are your chances of being elected,” Anil Bairwal, NEW coordinator, said.
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Interestingly, only 0.98% of candidates who had declared low assets, that is less than Rs 10 lakh, got elected in Maharashtra. This number was 2.34% for Haryana while 48% of candidates who declared assets of more than Rs 10 crore won in Maharashtra and about 44% of such candidates got elected in Haryana. For Arunachal, 53% of candidates who declared assets of more than Rs 10 crore won the elections.
The analysis was conducted by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch (NEW), a nationwide campaign comprising of more than 1,200 NGOs and other citizen-led organisations, working on electoral reforms, improving democracy and governance in India.
Besides their financial health, criminal background of elected representatives threw up some interesting facts. Out of 900 candidates with pending criminal cases who contested in these elections, 161 won.
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Admiral Gorshkov delivery to India in 2012: Russia
Russia will deliver the modernised Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to the Indian Navy in 2012, a senior shipbuilding industry official has said. "Under an agreement with India, the aircraft will be delivered in 2012. Almost 2,000 highly-qualified workers are currently involved in the overhaul (of the ship)," Vladimir Pakhomov, the president of Russia's United Shipbuilding Corporation, said in an interview published on Tuesday in the Vremya Novostei newspaper.
"We will increase the number of workers and speed up the work, making sure that it does not affect the quality. We are continuing talks with Indian officials about the additional financing of the project," he added.
The original $1.5 billion contract signed in 2004 between Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport and the Indian Navy envisioned that work on the aircraft carrier would be completed in 2008.
Of the contracted amount, $750 million was for the retrofit of the carrier, docked at the Sevmash shipyard in northern Russia for the past 12 years. The balance was for modern weaponry, including MiG-29K Fulcrum aircraft and Ka-27 Helix-A and Ka-31 Helix-B anti-submarine helicopters.
Russia later claimed it had underestimated the scale and the cost of the modernization and demanded an additional $1.2 billion, which New Delhi said was "exorbitant".
The Admiral Gorshkov, renamed INS Vikramaditya, is to replace India's INS Viraat carrier that is currently operational but is now 50 years old.
After modernisation, the Gorshkov is expected to be seaworthy for 30 years.
Release of women in exchange of officer an exception: Buddha
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Saturday described the swap of women arrested on charges of being Maoist sympathisers with an abducted police officer as an "exceptional decision taken on humanitarian grounds".
"This was an exceptional decision," the chief minister said in New Delhi, adding "but we have not surrendered to the Maoists".
"We have to be careful in future in dealing with the Maoists to see that such a situation does not arise again," he said.
He said he had met Home Minister P Chidambaram and been assured of all help in tackling the Maoist menace in the state's Lalgarh region.
He was replying to reporters' queries on the swap with Maoists to free abducted police officer Atindranath Dutta.
Dutta was freed on Thursday evening, almost three days after he was abducted by the leftwing ultras, after 14 tribal women who had been in jail for about one-and-a-half months on charges of Maoist activities were bailed out. This was one of the conditions laid down by the rebels.
Maoists released Dutta in full media glare and with a poster on his dress describing him as a Prisoner of War.
Maoists get arms from outside: PC
Maoists are acquiring weapons through Bangladesh, Myanmar and possibly Nepal, according to Home Minister P Chidambaram, who nonetheless has expressed government''s willingness for a dialogue with them provided they abjure violence. Naxalism remains the biggest internal security threat to India, he said and hit out at intellectuals who still try to "romanticise" the naxalites.
In a wide-ranging interview to PTI today, Chidambaram said the government is practical enough to understand that the Naxals would not not lay down arms. He said the West Bengal government has "learnt a lesson very late" after the Lalgarh operation but he would not not comment much on the West Bengal government''s decision to secure the release of an abducted police official by not not opposing the bail application of about 20 pro-Maoist tribals.
"In terms of the threat to security from Indian sources or internal sources, Naxalism remains the biggest threat. There is, of course, the other threat which is cross border terrorism but that is emanating from across the border," he said.
"There is no no evidence of any money flowing in from abroad to the Maoists. But there is certainly evidence of weapons being smuggled from abroad through Myanmar or Bangladesh which reach the Maoists.
" Asked whether some weapons are coming through Nepal, he said "it is possible".
Manmohan, Wen agree to build India-China trust!
Sat, Oct 24 10:22 AM
Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 24 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao met for nearly an hour here Saturday and agreed to build 'trust and understanding' in their bilateral relationship.
The two leaders had 'good discussions' and 'a productive meeting' at Hotel Dusit Thani, the venue of the Asean and East Asia summits, official sources said.
Wen said: 'We want to have a healthy and steady relationship with India. I hope we can use this opportunity to exchange our views on all related issues.'
The much awaited meeting was aimed at easing tensions between the two countries centred on their unresolved border dispute. Official sources, however, said Arunachal Pradesh and Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama did not figure in the discussions.
The two countries also agreed to beef up their strategic and cooperative partnership.
Manmohan Singh told Wen: 'I am excited to see you.' He said the Chinese people have had a number of achievements 'and we share their sense of accomplishment'. He said this in the context of the 60th anniversary of the founding of modern China.
Manmohan Singh also recalled his meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Russia in June this year.
Earlier, the Chinese premier received Manmohan Singh like an old friend and spoke of the meetings they have had in the past.
India, China avoid Arunachal, vow to build better ties
Sat, Oct 24 01:37 PM
Hua Hin (Thailand), Oct 24 (IANS) India and China Saturday pledged not to let their differences derail bilateral relations as Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Wen Jiabao held a much-awaited meeting here amid strained ties.
At a nearly hour-long meeting here, both leaders avoided the most contentious issues - Arunachal Pradesh, which Beijing claims, and the Dalai Lama's proposed November visit to the northeastern state that China opposes - as they discussed ways to build a relationship marred by a lingering border dispute.
'We have reached important consensus on promoting bilateral ties, and I believe that our two countries maintain a good relationship in the future, which conforms with the interests of the two countries,' Wen said at the beginning of the talks.
Both Manmohan Singh and Wen agreed that differences between them on a range of issues should not be allowed to act as impediments.
According to N. Ravi, Secretary (East) in the external affairs ministry, Manmohan Singh said that both sides should take measures at the political and diplomatic level to foster better understanding and trust 'so that our relationship remained strong and robust'.
'Neither side should allow differences to act as impediment in the growth of functioning cooperation,' he said.
The Indian and Chinese leaders met on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summits in this Thai resort.
Ravi said the Wen-Manmohan talks were held 'in a warm and friendly atmosphere'.
Wen underlined that India and China, which fought a border war in 1962 and still claim each other's territory, should maintain peace and strengthen bilateral relationship.
He also concurred with Manmohan Singh's assessment that 'our relations should be properly handled through discussions and should not become impediments in bilateral relationship'.
Wen, who congratulated Manmohan Singh on his re-election as prime minister, added: 'We want to have a healthy and steady relationship with India.'
Manmohan Singh and Wen shook hands warmly at the start of their meeting, their first since they met in New York in October last year. 'I am excited to see you,' Manmohan Singh told Wen.
Hailing 60 years of the establishment of diplomatic relations between India and China, the Indian prime minister said the Chinese people have had a number of achievements 'and we share their sense of accomplishment'.
Saturday's meeting has not resolved the dispute over Arunachal Pradesh, which has become a bone of contention, and China's bitter objection to the planned November visit to the state by the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India in self-exile since 1959.
Both Beijing and the official Chinese media have in recent times taken an unusually aggressive stance over Arunachal Pradesh.
New Delhi has in turn criticised Beijing's decision to undertake projects in Pakistani Kashmir, saying this would impact negatively on India-China relations. The Chinese military has also been accused of foraying into Indian border areas. This has been denied by Beijing.
Earlier Saturday, an Indian official said there was political consensus in India on building better relations with China. But this had to be based on mutual self-respect, he emphasised.
Manmohan Singh has a packed programme Saturday and Sunday.
Besides taking part in the seventh summit between India and the 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Saturday and at the fourth East Asia Summit Sunday involving the ASEAN and six other countries, the prime minister will hold a string of bilateral meetings with leaders from the region.
He will hold discussions with the prime ministers of Cambodia and Thailand later Saturday. Sunday's bilateral meetings will include those with the prime ministers of Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Pak to receive $800mln aid promised under K-L Bill by March 2010
Islamabad, Oct. 24 (ANI): Pakistan will receive over 800-million-dollars as aid under the Kerry-Lugar Bill by March next year, as the first tranche from disbursements is likely to arrive in December, the country's Finance Secretary Salman Siddique has said.
The Daily Times quoted Siddique as saying that the disbursements would be used to alleviate poverty and reduce some of the budgetary burdens on the economy.
The inflow of disbursements will be utilised for small and medium-size schemes which have already been approved, he added.
"We are persuading the US administration to allocate maximum funds through official channels instead of NGOs," he added.
Speaking about the defence budget, Siddique said that the military budget would not be increased despite the military offensive in South Waziristan.
He added that 2.5 billion rupees were recently given to the NWFP government for the Internally Displaced Persons living in transactional camps.
"The government has also released 11.5 billion rupees for the IDPs of Malakand during the current fiscal year," he said, adding that 50 billion rupees had been allocated for the welfare of IDPs in the federal budget 2009-10.
Regarding budgetary performance during the first quarter, Siddique said the fiscal deficit would be 1.5 per cent of GDP against the IMF's targeted 1.2 per cent. (ANI)
Japan presses new East Asia bloc, U.S. role uncertain
Sat, Oct 24 01:17 PM
Enlarge Photo Leaders pose for a group photo for the 12th ASEAN - China summit at Association... Japanese and Chinese leaders entered talks on Saturday with their Asian counterparts focused heavily on whether the region should pursue an EU-style bloc, and whether Washington should be involved.
Top Japanese officials backed a U.S. role for their proposed East Asian Community, as they pitched the idea of an integrated economic grouping at a summit of 16 Asia-Pacific leaders in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin.
"Japan places the U.S.-Japan alliance at the foundation of its diplomacy," Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said in a meeting with Southeast Asian leaders, according to a Japanese government spokesman.
"I would like to firmly promote regional cooperation in East Asia with a long-term vision of forming an East Asian Community," Hatoyama said.
The talks are part of a three-day leaders' summit which got off to a rancorous start on Friday, marred by a diplomatic spat between Thailand and neighbour Cambodia, a budding trade feud over rice import tariffs and a few no-shows in the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Southeast Asian leaders met as a group on Saturday with counterparts from China, Japan and South Korea, a day after launching a much-criticised human rights commission as part of their own plans to build their own community by 2015.
The setting gives Asia's economic titans, China and Japan, a chance to jockey for influence in Southeast Asia, a region of 570 million people with a combined $1.1 trillion economy that is quickly pulling out of a global recession.
Japan's newly minted government sees its influence bound to an East Asian Community, an idea for a new regional trading bloc inspired by the European Union and including India, Australia and New Zealand, along with ASEAN countries.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will push another idea at the summit centred around a new forum of Asia-Pacific nations and the United States for economic, security, environmental and political crises, according to Australian media.
Washington has stepped up Asian diplomacy under the Obama administration and fears missing out on such groupings, especially with Japan's new leaders considering redefining their close security alliance while deepening their Asian ties.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, told reporters in Beijing this month "critical dialogues that touch on security, economic, and commercial issues should involve the United States".
UNCERTAIN U.S. ROLE
Accounting for nearly a quarter of global economic output, an East Asian Community could overtake ASEAN's existing trade ties with Japan, China and South Korea, but would also vie with the "Group of 20", which anointed itself last month as the pre-eminent forum for global economic coordination.
Exactly how Washington would participate is uncertain.
Asked if U.S. involvement meant Washington would be a member of the Community, a Japanese government official told reporters on Saturday: "It remains unclear. We have to see how multilateral meetings will turn out today."
In Tokyo, the move is seen as an attempt by Japan to ease growing worries about friction over the long-planned reorganisation of the U.S. military presence in Japan, the first big test of ties between Washington and Japan's month-old government.
China has been cool to the idea of a community, wary it could promote Japanese influence at a time Beijing is rapidly expanding trade, investment and diplomatic links across Southeast Asia -- from building sleek new government offices in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to working closely with reclusive Myanmar.
"China wants to establish healthy relations with the new government in Japan, so it is not going to object to discussing this idea," said Shi Yinhong, a regional security professor at Beijing's Renmin University.
"But everybody understands the idea of an East Asia Community is extremely far off," he added.
Leaders from across Asia arrived at the beach resort under a blanket of security, including a security force of 18,000 backed by a handful of military gunships, with host Thailand determined to avoid a rerun of embarrassing mishaps at past summits.
The summit was initially scheduled for December last year but was postponed when anti-government protestors shut down Bangkok's airports. It was moved to the Thai resort area of Pattaya in April but was subsequently aborted when a rival protest group broke through police and army lines and stormed the summit venue.
(Additional reporting by Chris Buckley in Beijing; Writing by Jason Szep; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
Chances growing Japan may sign off on U.S. base - media
Sat, Oct 24 12:10 PM
The Asahi newspaper reported on Saturday that chances are growing Japan may sign off on a plan to reposition a U.S. Marine air base, which would help clear the way for a realignment of U.S. troops in the country.
An agreement would ease growing tension with the United States over the reorganisation, an issue which could fray ties with Washington.
The Sankei newspaper reported on Friday Japan would tell U.S. President Barack Obama when he visits next month that it would craft a new plan by the end of the year to relocate the base on the southern island of Okinawa, but Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said there had been no such decision.
The Asahi said Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama had indicated that a decision would be made on the issue by the end of the year. It gave no other details.
Since it would be difficult to find an alternate location for the base by that time, chances were growing that the government would have to accept the original plan or one with slight modifications, the Asahi said.
Concerns are growing about friction over the long-planned reorganisation of the U.S. military presence in Japan, the first big test of ties between Washington and a new Japanese government that wants more equal relations with its closest security ally.
How Hatoyama copes with the dispute could also affect voter support for his month-old government, now riding high at about 70 percent in most polls, especially if he looks indecisive.
Central to the reorganisation deal is a plan to move the functions of the Futenma air base -- located in a crowded urban area of Okinawa -- to a more remote part of the island.
It also involves shifting 8,000 Marines to the U.S. territory of Guam, partly at Japan's expense.
Hatoyama had said he wanted the base moved off the island, which lies 1,600 km (1,000 miles) from the Japanese mainland in the Pacific Ocean. But U.S. officials have ruled that out, saying it would undermine broader security agreements.
Foreign Minister Katsyua Okada said on Friday it was unrealistic to consider shifting the functions of Futenma off Okinawa.
"Considering that ... the more time we take, the longer the danger at Futenma continues, moving the base outside Okinawa is not a realistic option," Okada said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates this week made a blunt call for the planned realignment to be implemented and for Tokyo to decide on the issue before Obama's Nov. 12-13 visit to Japan, but Hatoyama said on Friday there was no need to rush a decision.
Asked if the United States wanted Japan to make a decision by Obama's visit, U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos told Asahi TV in an interview on Friday: "I think the timing of the decision is up to the prime minister and his government. It's really not up to the United States to set a deadline".
"The important thing is that the process move very expeditiously to a conclusion," he said.
(Reporting by Elaine Lies and Linda Sieg; Editing by Paul Tait)
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The dispute and background of Sino-India war 1962:
1. The border which China and India share is a long stretch sectioned into three parts by Nepal and Bhutan which follows the Himalayan mountains between Myanmar & Pakistan.
2. The Aksai chin area was the main issue behind the 1962 war. Aksai chin is at the western end of this border.
3. In 1958, China had published a map showing the Aksai Chin plateau on the western stretch of the border as part of its territory. India had strongly protested this.
4. Another disputed area is Arunanchal Pradesh which was earlier known as North East Frontier Agency.
5. The Indo-China war in 1962 broke out because India objected to occupation of uninhabited Aksai Chin by China.
6. India said China occupied 38,000 square km (15,000 square miles) of territory in Aksai Chin. Aksai chin was considered as a strategic link between the Chinese-administered territories of Tibet and Xinjiang.
The War
1. China attacked on India in June 1962 and was able to advance beyond actual line of control because of its strategic position and thus capture Rezang la in Chushul in western theatre and Tawang in eastern theatre and further.
2. Chinese troops overran Indian military positions in Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh before a ceasefire.
3. China withdrew to pre-war positions behind the McMahon line dividing the two countries along Arunachal Pradesh. The ceasefire line became known as the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
4. The war ended when the Chinese secured the disputed area and unilaterally declared a ceasefire on 20 November 1962, which went into effect at midnight.
5. India had requested for United States air support but did not receive it for 2 days.
6. Meanwhile China had given the ceasefire announcement on 19 November,1962 & the aircraft carrier from United States was ordered back after the ceasefire and thus American intervention on India's side in the war was avoided.
What Was China's Advantage?
1.The Aksai Chin region is a vast desert of salt flats around 5,000 meters above sea level, and Arunachal Pradesh is extremely mountainous with a number of peaks exceeding 7000 meters.
2. According to military doctrine, to be successful an attacker generally requires a 3:1 ratio of numerical superiority over the defender; in mountain warfare this ratio should be considerably higher as the terrain favors defense.
3. China was able to take advantage of this as the Chinese Army had possession of the highest ridges in the regions. The high altitude and freezing conditions also caused logistical and welfare difficulties.
4. Many of 3128 soldiers of India were killed because of not the wounds but the freezing cold.
The Border Problem as of Today:
Both India & China still claim vast parts of each other's territory along the 3,500 km Himalayan border. The Indo China border was never demarcated as the Britishers saw little need to demarcate such a remote area.
What Is India's Claim?
India says Beijing is illegally holding 5,180 sq km of northern Kashmir ceded to it by Pakistan in 1963. India is also concerned about the modernization of Chinese Army and China's military aid to Pakistan.
What Is China's Claim?
China lays claim to 90,000 sq km of land on the eastern sector of the border in Arunachal Pradesh.
What Lesson India Learnt From The War ?
We learned from the war was that we need to strengthen our own defenses. There was a need to shift from Nehru's foreign policy of Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai as we could never anticipate the Chinese aggression. The folly of Jawahar Lal Nehru brutally exposed our weakness and our tacit alliance with the U.S. against China.
An investigation was commissioned by Indian Government which resulted in the Henderson-Brooks-Bhagat Report. This report blamed the High altitudes for India's defeat along with doctrine, training, organization and equipment.
Further Progress:
1. In 1993 and 1996, India and China signed the Sino-Indian Bilateral Peace and Tranquility Accords, an agreement to maintain peace and tranquility along the Line of Actual Control (LoAC). Several meetings of Sino-Indian Joint Working Group (SIJWG) and some of an expert group have taken place to determine where the LoAC lies, however there is little progress till now.
2. On 6 July 2006, Silk Road passing through this territory was reopened which is a milestone in the bilateral relationships.
3. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed an agreement on the "guiding principles" to resolve the dispute in 2005.
4. China had formally abandoned its claim to the Himalayan state of Sikkim.
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India China War - 1962 AD
India China War of Ad 1962
By Colonel Yavesh Kushwaha (retd) Read the Original
The reason as to why the report (General Henderson Brooke's on the 1962 conflict) is not being made public is on account of the fear of the DEMOLITION OF ICONONIC and MESSIAH type image of NEHRU and his clan. I have read "INDIA's CHINA WAR" by Maxwell and also "HIMALYAN BLUNDER" by Brig Dalvi & "AN UNTOLD STORY" by disgraced General BM Kaul (a supply branch officer , ASC, who was of the same clan as Nehru). All these books obliquely point a finger at NEHRU & Krishna Menon. The question is WHO STARTED THE WAR? India Or China? No doubts China had disputed the acquisition of NEFA since the SHIMLA agreement. However, in the wake of "HINDI-CHINI BHAI BHAI" diplomacy of Nehru in mid & late 50s and his bonhomie with CHOU-EN-Lai from BANDUNG conference in 1954 had given an exalted image of self to NEHRU–who considered himself more as a WORLD leader and less as an Indian Leader. He ignored nibbling acts by the CHINESE when reported by Indian army. He dismissed these reports. It carried on till he hit a road block on CHINESE admancy to refuse to vacate encroachments beyond Mc Mohan line. he foolishly thundered to his PLIABLE GENERALS–PN THAPAR - BM KAUL & co: "EVICT THE CHINESE". When Thorat & LP sen refused such silly orders–BM KAUL–an ASC Officer–who had never commanded soldiers in combat–was sent TO EVICT THE CHINESE. This is what DALVI writes in his book. And these guys commenced their EVICTION ACT–and LO! CHINA STRUCK in a big way. So, who initiated the war WITHOUT PREPARATION? It was NEHRU and his defence Minister - Krishna Menon. when debacle hit us poor KRISHNA MENON became the scapegoat but NEHRU remained the ICON – he shouldn't have been. And the truth is being hidden by keeping secret Henderson Brooke's report. What HENDERSON BROOKE REPORT is all about is THE ILL PREPAREDNESS OF INDIAN ARMY vis-a-vis CHINESE ARMY and the role of INDIAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN PUSHING THE ARMY INTO THIS DEBACLE THROUGH THEIR HAND-PICKED INCOMPETENT GENERALS.
Finally, even today, INDIAN ARMY is swarmed by the likes of BM KAULS and THAPARS – you see them involved in corruption – from BRIGADIERS to LT Generals and getting Court martialled. It is the GRESHAM LAW of Economics which has become applicable to INDIAN ARMY i.e.BAD MONEY (read Officers) driving out the GOOD MONEY (read Officers). Tragedy of 1962 is likely to be repeated as a FARCE.
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