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Who among the LIC Pensioners (ignore the Organizations claiming to represent them and their Leaders who have their separate Agenda, Fund raising included) think that the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s Orders of 7 May & 7 Sept are meant to remain on paper?
Every effort
is made from behind the scene to bail out LIC in spite of its flagrant
violation of the categorical Order TO PAY. By one Organization/Petitioner which
is a collusive ‘party to the fraud’. By another which cannot tolerate the
existence of anyone else on this planet, except itself. How can one otherwise
explain why no one (I mean the well-paid big mouths a.k.a. Sr. Advocates) could
not demand that LIC should act fair and proper?
On the
contrary, some claim shamelessly, ‘we are fighting for 100% why you are
bothered about 20%? We are fighting for ALL pensioners you are representing
only 31’.
ARE YOU? HOW
EXACTLY?
Yet another
strange argument – any focus on Interim Payment would delay Final Decision.
This by such people, who never worked for, never believed in the final decision
being possible soon. By the very people who were directly responsible for every
avoidable delay till 7 May 2015.
I am not
tired of repeating to explain my firm conviction that the directions to make
interim payment of 20% is not all about merely receiving some money immediately
but it is also about bringing ALL Pensioners under the umbrella for the benefit
and extracting a decision (albeit interim) that the issue before the Court is
on Pension up-gradation.
Let us all
recall that the origin of the direction on 7 May to make interim payment lay in
the entry by UoI through its fresh SLP causing further delay due to the
adjournment to 23 Sept. When it was taken to the Notice of the Court on 7 Sept
that nothing moved on 7 May Order, Court became furious. That day’s reaction of
the Bench in the open Court and the stiff Order that followed is known to all.
What has changed on 3oth? Is Panchkula Unit/Chandigarh Petitioners/Murty’s
failure (if it was really so) your success? Sorry, our
Pensioners deserve a better deal.
Has anybody
applied his mind as to why LIC retained the SGI to represent it in the matter (dropping
the most vocal Abhishek Manu Singhvi and the like)? When UoI also is in the
picture through its fresh SLP? If it
escaped your attention till now, please think it over.
It is a big
game plan.
(To be continued)