Bangalore: What happened to all our Desh Bhakias? Inside and outside India, these upper castes (Hindus) shout from their house-top that they alone are the greatest lovers of this Punya Bhoomi, and the rest are anti-national, meritless morons, and a drag on the society.
With this complaint on the tip of their tongue, they kept the martial races like the Dalits, Muslims, Sikhs, BCs out of the armed forces. Except the lowest post of jawan, they occupied all top positions in the Defence Services on the ground that they alone possessed the “merit and efficienicy”. (V.T. Rajshekar, Merity – My Foot, DSA-1987). But what is the position today?
New Delhi: The Indian Army has been unable to arrest the slide in the numbers of its young officers. There is a shortage of 12,554 (about 25.8%) lieutenants, captains and majors, and a Rs. 15-crore image projection campaign to refurbish its image has failed. The recruitment of officers is witnessing a drop every year. The figure speaks for themselves — officer recruitment fell sharply from 2,695 officers in 2000 to 1,911 officers in 2002. The Army is short of at least 3,500 majors and 9,000 captains and lieutenants. The shortage is most acute in the ranks of major and below. With poor service conditions, many young officers, finding little career prospects, have preferred to quit the Army in the recent past. (Asian Age, June 6, 2003).
How has the Desh Bhakti suddenly dried up in the hearts of our Hindus?
The cause is they find more lucrative jobs in the corporate sector, particularly IT. Foreign jobs are still attractive. If there is better pay outside, hell with this country. Where then is the Desh Bhati of the Hindus?
That is why we once recommended compulsory military training and conscription to test their Desh Bhakti. (DV Sept.1, 2002: “If upper castes alone are patriotic why they are not joining Defence?” & DV Aug.16. 2000 p.19: “To stop all wars force Aryan youth | to join Army”). You can take it from us, the upper caste yuppies will be the first to oppose it. These Desh Bhaktas do not love India because India is not their Desh. The Aryans are foreigners.
