PM British Assam Sir Syed Md Sadulla planned Assam to merge with Pakistan in 1946???

The great conspirator of Assam during British Rule: Sir Syed MOHAMMAD Sadulla !! The Pre-independence Prime Minister , un divided Assam of Pakistani Muslim League. 

The untold unfolded by Veteran Freedom Fighter Pani Ram Das of Kalaigaon, Assam ( 07 Apr 1917-30 Nov 2010) during his biography writing session with veteran teacher of Mangaldai, Sri Prafulla Sharmah, and the same precious biography is being re-written( under way) by Sergeant Bikash Kumar Das, the 4^th son of the freedom fighter.

Here Freedom Fighter Pani Ram Das kept saying:  “The Pakistani Muslim league had a great plan to include then Assam with East Bengal (Purbo Bongo) before independence of India. Sir Syed Muhammad Saadulla. Although an Assamese, but carried the blood of Pakistan for self gain. He led his Party, Muslim League along with good support of few other party leaders and formed Govt in Assam. He himself retained the post of Prime Minister.(Those days it was called as PM).At that time he did brought huge people from East Bengal(Present Bangladesh). They were allowed to settle in the Bramhaputra river bank Chor-Chapori embankment area. During Quit India movement in 1942, Lokapriyo Gopinath Bordoloi etc all prominent congress leaders were sent to jail and all the opponent ( Paniram Das did not mentioned who they was!) took the great advantage of it and brought as much of East Pakistani Muslims as they can. Lot of Muslim League top leaders did arrived into Assam and tried best to influence upon the Assamese Muslims too to join Muslim League! All of them established a Head office at Mowamari Chor, near Mangaldai. All the East Pakistani Miya got organized into 400-500s groups & started looting native Assamese in the villages of Monitary, Aulachowka,Rongamati,Thekerabari after 9-10 pm onwards. They used to enter with dire consequences and looted cattle, Rice whatever they could. At same time they did damaged Assamese huts made of raw mud and bamboo. Almost all places they used to beat up villagers easily and looted cash. Overall the villagers suffer massive fear as the night advances.

          To create mass public awareness on such terrified acts, a public meeting was held at Borbori village near Punia gaon at west of Mangaldai on 25 Oct 1946 under chairmanship of freedom fighter Advocate late Tapeswar Sharmah. Although it was attended by 500 people, I was not invited. I was in another meeting at Sipajhat High School. I was aware of that Borbori meeting very well. I was aware of my essential presence in that meeting. Late Bhabendra Das, Head master of Patharughat ME School did delivered a very hot lecture in Sipajhar meeting and I was highly influenced. At same time Govt arrested him and awarded RI for 18 months. 

Immediately after this meeting I left to Punia meeting, 9 miles east by walk. I walk as much faster I can and arrived just before concluding the meeting. However the President refused me to give lecture. I know the resolution was not sufficient. After repeated request, the President allowed me to talk. I delivered the most hot lecture to make public aware of consequences of our tomorrow and need to stop the illegal immigration of entire East Pakistanis. I sought 50 youths as volunteer to come up for mass protection. Immediately village heads cam forward at my appeal and I requested all to sharpen Daa, javelins, bow and arrows for war footing defence in all area. In same late evening all domestic weapons was ready and shining for battle. The counter battle begins from 25 Oct 1946-Feb 1947. The East Pakistanis planned to attack and capture Mangaldai Sub divisional Officer Office and already in position to capture. They shouted “ Ladke Lenge Pakistan  !” It was a deadly moment for us. At my request, late Deba Kanta Baruah and late Arun Hazarika visited Mangaldai and made appeal to app scary people. Their bold appeal did help to form defence team. I established a military like camp at Borbori with 500 bold youths. It’s still a big history. Ration supply was like of army. Training was also same. We managed to chase off all East Pakistani Immigrant like dogs. The battle camp runs till last chase.

          At that time we got supply of all battle gear like, handmade gun, javelin, bamboo stick (Lathi) etc. Then MP late Rohini Kr Chowdhury did help us with 1000 javelin. Late Subodh Hazarika personally arranged to get late Barin Ghosh from Calcutta to supervise over all function, training of the camp. He got 6 pistols too. Late Hazarika with barin Ghosh did arranged hundreds of Bihari ustads from Bhuragaon near Nagaon. These Bihari were experts in Lathi Charge combat. These Bihari were bold enough to face anything in front. We did kept ready large No of handgun to face anything at any time. Fearing more worst, late Deba Kanta Baruah, late Hem Baruah (Tyagbeer) etc all requested me to give a demo firing with our guns at Guwahati. I took handgun making experts, late Monipad Bania and Romani Bonia to the residence of late Deba Kanta Baruah. His house was full with people of then Guwahati. During firing session, a big banana tree was flown far in a single shot!! Yes, nothing was possible to me without Arun Hazarika,Debakanra Baruah, Rohini Kr Chowdhury,Hem Baruah, Barin Ghosh and the bold people of Mangaldai. I DID MY BEST AND WILL DO TILL LAST DROP OF BLOOD.””

          Imagine that was 1946-1947 early of Assam. Paniram Das did saved Mangaldai from the grip of East Paks. Else it would have remained as pasrt of Pakistan for ever. His military warfare is by blood of Koch history. He is in fact Saikia of Darrangi Koch king’s army general dynasty. Without Paniram Das, today Entire Assam would have been into Pakistan as planned by Sir Sadulla, who is descendant of Ajan Pir!!!! Sadulla was an Assamese, highly educated with Sir Title. But the blood was of a deadly Pakistani.

////// (Published in national interest, before completion of the great historic biography of veteran freedom fighter pani ram das)   //////

The Babu's Venom with Military pension: By L t Gen PG Kamath, PVSM,AVSM,YSM, SM (Veteran)

Here is a real story of the Great Babu during the third pay commission, who stabbed the soldiers in their back. Babu's venom is far more poisonous than that of Cobra. The sad fete of Indian Armed Forces in a strong democracy like India. Neither babus nor politicians wanted powerful India. By lowering national military personnel morale, national security being compromised by the politician and babu nexus.. Well written by veteran Lt Gen PG Kamath, PBSM,AVSM,YSM,SM

It was post 1971 and the nation was euphoric. Our countrymen were lauding the Indian Armed Forces for a spectacular victory that had changed the geography of the sub-continent. The nation was savouring the victory and more than 97,368 prisoners were in our Prisoners of War Camps. It was the second largest surrender in the Military History; second only to the surrender of Gen Von Paulus, German, 6th Army at Stalingrad in the Second World War. The Armed Forces were feted everywhere for its courage and the people were convinced that it was one instrument that would never let the country down.Amidst this euphoria there were 4000 families, who had lost their fathers/sons/husbands in the war. Another 10,000 were wounded and maimed for life. They were picking up the lost threads of life to continue their journey in the forbidding world. However their sorrow was lost amidst the mirth, laughter and jubilation of victory.

Unknown to the services a band of bureaucrats were conspiring as to how to cut the Armed Forces to size. Defence Secretary was Mr K B Lal, who was literally there for the entire duration of the Third Pay Commission. He was the one, who provided the inputs to the Third Pay Commission. The Commission was constituted a year before the war and concluded two years after the war. It’s final recommendation marginalising the Armed Forces was made public two months after Fd Marshal Manekshaw relinquished the post of Chief. Indeed it was a clever move as the most popular person in the country was not able to take cudgels against the government. This Pay Commission cut the Armed Forces to size for winning the war for the country. Even Fd Mshl Manekshaw was not spared; more of it later. ‘Ingratitude unkinder than the winters wind’ to adopt Shakespearean phrase to an ungrateful government. How did the Government go about the act?

Firstly they abolished a separate Pay Commission for the Armed Forces and formulated an equivalence between the Armed Forces and Civilians. It was here that the Pay Commission struck its vilest blow when they considered that ‘a trained infantry soldier with three years of service is below a skilled labour. Little do they know that it is the infantry soldier who does the actual fighting and charges the enemy with naked bayonet literally on the very front edge of the battle and makes eye and steel contact with the enemy. He is the one who bears the brunt of more than 90% of casualty in all wars and yet he was considered the lowest strata to base their comparison. It also means that the infantry soldier with less than three years’ service was considered an semi-skilled/unskilled labour? Just mark the irony of the sinister and ignorant move? Rest of the soldiers were equated based on this preposterous formulae?

Next step was to reduce the percentage of pension for the Armed Forces. The OROP that was effective till 1972, was annulled after the third pay commission. A soldier then served only for 15 years and went on pension at the ages ranging from 33 years to 36 years of age. In view of this, his pension was 70% of his basic pay and an officers pension was 50% of his basic pay as the bulk of them retired at 50 years of age. The civilian counterparts were getting only 30% of their basic pay as pension. Please note they served till they were 58 years of age (now 60 years) and the soldiers retired a quarter century earlier. The wretched Third Pay Commission did not consider the additional 25 years of service his civilian counterpart served and raised their pension to 50% and reduced a soldiers pension from 70% to 50% in order to achieve the so-called parity. Further the government put mandatory 33 years of service for full pension fully knowing that the soldier then retired after 15 years of service. They further as a largesse made a seemingly generous gesture to the Armed Forces by pegging the mandatory service for full pension (50%) to 25 years. Just look at the clever move; fully knowing that the soldier retired after 15 years of service. Thus the soldier in effect got only 30% of pay after 15 years of service, as extrapolated from full pension of 50% of pay with 25 years of service. Thus the Government ingeniously cut a soldiers pension from 70% to 30% of pay at the same time enhancing the civilian pension from 30% to 50%. Look at the perfidy; how can possibly a Government run down her own Armed Forces? It is indeed a remarkable feat from a nation that was a slave nation for over two centuries, yet disregards her Armed Forces who ensure her hard earned freedom?

Our Defence Ministry were hand in glove with the proposals. There was not a whimper of protest to set right the injustice. The soldiers had to pay heavily for having won the war for the country. Their travails were not over; more was yet to come!

One would wonder why the soldiers did not protest against the brash injustice perpetrated on them? It would be difficult to believe, as those were the times the officers in particular were told that politics and pay were not to be discussed. They were naïve and had full faith in the government that in the long run; no injustice would be done to them? The disarming naivety of our officers appear incomprehensible now; but it was true then. Hence the entire master stroke of cutting the armed forces to size by impoverishing them was done with so much of dexterity, it took us couple of decades to realise its negative impact.

Mrs Gandhi was feted and was called ‘Durga’ and she basked in the limelight of victory and self-adulation. However, she proved to be the daughter of her illustrious father by sharing the same antipathy and disdain towards the Armed Forces. She was a smart women hence concealed it to a great extent with outer façade of support and derived maximum political mileage of the victory. The running down of the Armed Forces in the Third Pay Commission could not have been done without her active and positive consent?

Their next target was the most popular figure in the country Fd Marshal Manekshaw. He was made a Field Marshall and the appointment is active for life, though ceremonial in nature. A Field Marshall does not retire and continues to wear his five star rank for life. He was entitled to Pay and Allowances for life. The bureaucrats who were literally jealous of his popularity ensured that he did not get his pay and allowances; low and behold! for the next 36 years, and finally a lump sum of ₹ 1.60 crore of arrears was released to him on intervention by then President Abdul Kalam. A non-descript bureaucrat gave him his pension dues on his deathbed in Jun 2007 a few days before he breathed his last. Isn’t it a national tragedy? Don’t you sometimes feel whether the country deserves selfless service from its soldiers? Can any country on this earth be more ungrateful towards her soldiers than ‘Mother India? What a great victory for the MOD for destroying the soldiers pride?

Let us now analyse as to why a soldier fights? Why does he give his life for a cause? What makes him charge through a fusillade of bullets and splinters against sure death and injury overcoming the instinct of self-preservation? Why is he prepared to make his ultimate sacrifice and bid goodbye to the world? Why does he not think of his loving wife, his innocent children, his aged parents and the living world of mirth and bliss; knowing he has not even spent a quarter of his life? Why all his near and dear ones pale in to insignificance and he sees only his mission like Arjuna only seeing the eye of the bird? All these questions can be answered in two words; His Pride.

It is his professional pride that make him a hero. He wants to be a hero before his comrades; before his superiors, in his unit and in his country. He is a hero of his village and hero in front of his parents. He is a hero to his wife and a super hero to his children. He also knows he is the last bastion of the nation and he is the last trump card in the hands of his nation. He knows that if he fails the nation fails. It is this emotion that drives him towards mission accomplishment. It is all the way Pride! Pride! And Pride. It is nothing else but ‘Pride’.Sad to say; it is exactly that the Governments of his own country wants to deprive him of? He has been badgered, humiliated, impoverished and made a laughing stock in all the successive pay commissions. His status has been lowered time and again by an insensitive government. How can noble thoughts like sacrifice, mission, cause, patriotism and pride be ever understood by self-serving, sly and scheming bureaucracy? A soldiers pride has taken a beating and believe me sir! It would be a long and painful time to build it again?

Mr Prime Minister! Before you forget history; In Jun 1932 President Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of US ordered firing on the veterans of First World War for demanding the promised bonus. Two veterans were killed and several injured. Herbart Hoover lost the election with a devastating defeat and has gone down in history as a lack lustre President. The Great Depression may have contributed to his rout but the firing on veterans brought him great disrepute. Mr Prime Minister! You are certainly made of a better stuff than Herbert Hoover? 

Enough has been said of ‘OROP’ and nothing more needs to be said about it. Supreme court has granted it and parliamentary committee has approved it. Not a single political party has opposed it but it is still undone? For the past 70 days agitation is on and brute force of police has been unleashed on them. Dear Prime Minister! I hope you have seen the sad picture of a proud veteran trying to fight his tears and another veteran whose shirt with medals torn asunder withstands the criminal use of force against him with quiet dignity and equanimity. It is still not too late to make amends.

Reminds me the words of Edmond Burke “ Invention is exhausted, Reason is fatigued, Experience has given its judgement but Obstinacy remains unconquered”. Mr Prime Minister ! I believe you have still the ability to overrule small minions around you, who do not have the nation in their heart and are bent upon the murdering the ‘ Pride in a Soldier’. Remember ‘Soldiers’ Pride is Nation’s Security’. You kill his pride; you endanger the nation’s security... ( As received via emails on ever of groove OROP issues for Military veterans)