The Air Chief marshal of India N.A.K
Brown has stated recently that Jawaharlal Nehru the then P.M
did not permit the air force to bombard Chinese positions in 1962 war
for fear of more fierce offensive by China. This fact is not new. Our country
has been governed by timid (if not cowardly) leadership barring Shastri, Indira
and Vajpayee. The result has been terrible for us and we lost lakhs of sq.miles
of Indian territories in the north and the northeast. Now China stages
intrusions almost every day into our borders. It has installed infrastructure,
military equipments and immense manpower accretions in the Pak-occupied
J&K. Our borders are in constant danger of being violated as no matching
military facilities have yet been put in place to counter any outside
aggression. The Chinese bellicose and imperious attitude continues to be a
challenge with wide international ramifications for our national interests. Gandhi-Nehru
legacy has bled this country profusely. The communal bifurcation of the country
on the basis of so-called two-nation theory and lackadaisical, ineffective,
inadequate and belated response to Pakistani invasion of J&K in 1948 is the
genesis of today’s social disharmony, communalism and terrorism.
Still we adore and lionize Gandhi and
Nehru as national Heroes who comprised a failed leadership.
It is high time the distorted history
authored by vested interests over the years gave way to impartial accounts of historicism.
The recent revelations made through classified documents about Netaji Shubhash Chandra Bose undoubtedly place Nehru in the pantheon of leaders who connived with the British and acted against national interests for self aggrandizement. Gandhi as a blind backer of Nehru invites more public scrutiny & research.The duo can be anything but patriots.
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