Agnipath Is Our Prime Minister’s Seminal Contribution To Defence Programme

By Sushil Kutty

Agnipath and Madhushala! Two poems of Harivansh Rai Bachchan, actor Amitabh Bachchan’s father. Agnipath is about ‘hope’, whereas Madhushala spells ‘drunken despair’. However, with “Tu na thakega kabhi / Tu na rukega kabhi / Tu na mudega kabhi / Kar shapath, Kar shapath, Kar shapath / Agnipath agnipath agnipath”, is the Modi Authorities fiddling dangerously with the combating spirit of the Indian Armed Forces?

Once more, what’s already being hailed as Modi’s seminal contribution to the Indian Military, Indian Navy, and the Indian Air Drive, ‘Agnipath’ and ‘Agniveer’, should have sprung from Modi’s fertile creativeness, nurtured since his movie-going days. The Amitabh Bachchan starrer, ‘Agnipath’, should have been a favorite, with ‘Agniveer’ a start-up he launched.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, from the time he introduced himself Prime Minister of India, gone on a disengagement from the time earlier than Could 26, 2014. To that extent, Modi rule isn’t about post-2014, however about ante-2014. Narendra Modi has been systematically disrobing India, and altering the character of India’s establishments from what they have been like earlier than 2014.

What’s disquieting is that it’s nonetheless a piece in progress. To get into Modi’s head might be a discovery of a surprising India, one that may hark backwards and forwards, leaving in its wake a hotch-potch India exhausting to acknowledge. Whether or not it will likely be an thought of India the individuals would need to uphold can be exhausting to inform, suffice to say that the first objective of the discoveries can be to startle.

The Indian Military’s historical past is of valour and victory. Publish-Independence, it didn’t want ‘Agnipath’, and ‘Agniveer’ to beat our enemies again. Proper from the phrase go, India’s combating troopers gladly embraced martyrdom. The Sikh Regiment, the Punjab Regiment, the Rajput regiment, to call simply three, made bravery their motto.

And now there’s information that the Indian military will lose its aggressive edge that it will get from regimental delight! The one overriding attribute of residing beneath a dictatorship is that everyone of consequence is afraid to face as much as the authoritarians’ harebrained schemes. The Tughlaks all the time get their manner.

To reiterate, doesn’t it look like there’s extra to the Modi authorities’s armed forces recruitment plan than meets the attention? The Modi authorities has borrowed from “poetry and movie”, after which glossed over the remaining.’ ‘Agnipath’ and ‘Agniveer’ will go hand in hand with the mission to create 10 million jobs in one-and-a-half-years!

One-and-a-half years will take us straight to the 2024 common elections, and the BJP and Narendra Modi might be canvassing for a 3rd straight time period, and third consecutive victory! And there’s sufficient unemployment within the nation to place the military recruitment plan into motion straightaway!

The plan is alongside the traces of Yogi Adityanath’s free ration scheme. The economically weaker sections received their 35 kilos of paddy and grain and gladly voted BJP within the UP meeting elections. ‘Agnipath’ turns 1000’s of unemployed into troopers and mid-2024, tens of 1000’s of ‘Agniveers’ in Delhi and elsewhere will vote Modi and BJP!

Dig deep, assume exhausting and Agnipath is knee jerk. If 6-months can create an ‘Agniveer’, consider what a waste it will likely be to throw these “Common Troopers” again into the maelstrom, the place they began from — unemployed once more, with no pension to stay up for. The one-time cache of Rs 11 lakh might be gone earlier than the ejected ‘Agniveer’ is contained in the door of his mom’s residence.

Additionally, what’s the assure the cast-aside Agniveer will land a civilian job? Examine the Modi Authorities’s employment coverage, and what we’ve got are lots of of 1000’s of unambitious youth dragging handcarts, promoting pakoras and samosas.

A variant of ‘Agnipath’ and ‘Agniveer’ can’t be imposed on the Indian Railways. However disciplined troopers won’t elevate a hue and cry when solid out each 4 years. The purpose is, what kind of jobs await them? Other than crawling by undergrowth and thrusting a bayonet, what different issues will an ‘Agniveer’ of 4-years’ coaching know?

The federal government will save on pension, however each 4 years there might be a stark inventory variety of youth becoming a member of the ranks of the burgeoning unemployed, youth skilled to make use of the firearm. A gradual stream of army-trained unemployed is a unique sort of the unemployed let unfastened on the roads. From Agnipath to Madhushala, from hope to drunken despair, is however a brief 4 years. (IPA Service)

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