I have just seen the post of Shri Prem Dhamija on the above
matter carried in your esteemed blog a couple of hours back.Shri
Dhamija is one of the senior functionaries in my organisation .Though
being a soft spoken gentleman we have always found him to be candid in
expressing his views and yet ever willing to listen to others. His post
could not have come at a more opportune time when pensioners are eager
to know what the court decides rather than knowing who did what!! I am
therefore tempted to make some clarificatory 'observations '- I hasten
to call them so and not as 'my Response'- on certain points arising out
of his mail.
1)Out of the five
members of the 'legal committee' of our federation at least three viz
myself Sri R Rajagopalan & shri Vk jain are practicing lawyers of
more than two decades of standing. According to my information -i
promise to stand corrected if I am wrongly informed - our friend Mr. Murthy was never a practicing lawyer but got himself enrolled only after
our litigation had got heated up first in the Supreme court and later
in Delhi HC. Apart from my information, whether right or wrong, both Mr.
murthy & Mr. mahadevan to my personal knowledge successfully took
care of their career advancement while in service. I still have great
respect for the latter who came forward to form an affiliate association
of our fedn at Hyderabad when everybody thought it impossible for
certain reasons which are not relevant now.
2) The breaking up of Hyd from our organisation was
certainly not on the basis of any 'principle' but only for ego
satisfaction of individuals.
3) I may inform shri.Dhamija that shri Murty has
successfully brain washed certain groups of pensioners at places he
visited in his Bharat Darshan. It was possible because we still have
friends who would rather go by personal affinities of 'batch' 'cadre on
retirement' etc unmindful of the fact that they are throwing overboard
the norms of 'organisational loyalties'. Why did he not go to Mumbai
where we have 1200 members? One of the so succumbed groups have been
strangely attributing any action of our fedn to MY age!! At 85 I cannot
claim to be young but one should seriously ponder whether the talk of
young or old in any organisation of retired people can really have a
serious place. All of us are old and that is why we are retired.! I
shall feel gratified if any of the esteemed readers of your blog can
tell me whether I do no not satisfy all or any of the three criteria of
a) physical mobility b) Mental stability and 3) grasp of the problems of
the pensioners' community.
I do not want to go further as shri Dhamija had fortunately done some plain speaking without mincing words
-GNSridharan .Gen.Secy Fedn of Retd. LIC Class1 officers' Assns.
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