Bangalore: According to Ashok Mitra, a former West Bengal Finance Minister belonging to the ruling upper caste, says the Indian Govt. is using its armed forces against its own people instead of using it to fight external aggression :-
He says “the armed personnel on active duty in Punjab is about 115,000 and in Jammu and Kashmir is around 60,000. Troops posted in Assam is about 20,000. The army has also now been called in to flush out Veerappan, the alleged sandalwood smuggler, along the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border. Specially trained detachments are in Nagaland, Mizoram and Manipal.
It thus involves little exaggeration if the number of troops currently being used for non-defence purposes around the country is about 225,000. Since our standing army is estimated to be 1.1 million, over one-fifth of our soldiers are being utilised to put down what will be defined as civil disturbances”. (Deccan Herald Sept. 23).
Does it mean India’s Aryan ruling class, comprising less than 15% of our population, considers the country’s over 85% of the non-Aryan peoples as enemies?
