My wholehearted congratulations on your taking the initiative for bringing our case managers and counsels on a common platform on 7th April to discuss the modalities to be followed on 8th April and to discuss our case coming up on that day threadbare, proactively, for the emergence of a positive and fruitful outcome.
It was not my intention to kick up a controversy when I pointed out a couple of unpleasant things going on amongst our case managers and the total unpreparedness of some of our counsels. I am thankful to Mr.Sreenivasa Murthy for clarifying a few of my doubts though I must say they were not fully convincing. My association with Mr.Sridharan is not two decades but four decades old and I have nothing but respect and regards for him for the yeoman services he has rendered to the entire community of Class I Officers ever since the early seventies. However, as far as his stand on upgradation of pension is concerned, it is an open secret that he had never thrown his heart and soul into it as he had done in regard to the DR issue.His approach was segregational.
Shri.Asthana has been the architect of three favourable decisions in the Jaipur High court. It is uncharitable to sideline such an important person at this stage of the case. Government's thinking on our demands is as clear as the daylight. Their response towards the RBI pensioners is loud and clear. Under the circumstances , it is the fervent appeal of all right thinking pensioners that OUR CASE MANAGERS buried their differences deep and down and laid a strong foundation on 7th when they meet so that the poor pensioners taste victory on the 8th of April. What matters at the end of the day is the BIGGER PICTURE and not the small pinpricks. Let us not MISS THE WOODS FOR THE TREES!
Dear Sridharanji, I did watch both the quarter-finals and Semi-Finals at the Sydney Cricket Grounds as advised by you!
Wishing that your sincere efforts bore fruit on the 7th and with regards,
M.V.VENUGOPALAN
(Camp: New South Wales, Australia)