WHAT AIR CHIEF MARSHAL TIPNIS said at the REWARI RALLY Warmest Greetings Fellow Veterans now on parade at Rewari! The Rewari Rally can have great significance for the well-being of Indias future generations if we veterans play our role, not as much as that of warriors, as of elder statesmen. What India needs today is not our willingness to make the Supreme Sacrifice, but our wisdom earned through honourably always putting Duty-before-Self and our commitment to placing the welfare of the people that we commanded before our own comfort and security. While in service we served the Nation by thwarting the enemy on the battle-field, despite not having been equipped as well as Indias security challenges demanded. But we succeeded because we had political leadership, perhaps lacking in strategic understanding, but certainly not in patriotism and in its commitment to the welfare of our Motherland. Today, that very political leadership is no more the driving force for rallying our collective effort towards preserving our sovereignty and national honour. Instead, political leadership has turned itself in to the biggest threat to our Nationhood. Altruism has given way to selfishness, Republicanism has given way to Dynastic Rajshahi. As Shri Modi addresses the Veterans Rally and seeks to know our difficulties, it would be in the fitness of things to lay aside our grievances and stay focused on the issues that ail our governance. As a composite body of patriots we need to assess whether Shri Modi is indeed made of the old political fervour of patriotism and Nation-First philosophy. Assess whether he has the integrity, the political will & skill, the administrative abilities, but most important of all establish whether he has the instinct of a patriot, a statesman and a true saviour of a society to know how to go about setting right the many infirmities that have been inflicted upon this Nation. Convince yourselves that he is not just political bluster, but truly a man of action, that he has the magical blend of impatience with sycophants & band-wagon riders, bur patience with true solution-providers. If you think he is different from the run-of-the-mill politician and can do for India what he has done for Gujrat, then we have to give him our whole-hearted support. India needs all its true patriots to be united to politically, socially, economically, strategically save it for future generations. Jai Hind! Air Chief Marshal Tipnis (Former Air Chief)
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:21:57 +0000
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