Ten Days to
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MY VIEW - POST NO 2.
The queries, the replies and the comments are all BONAFIDE. But they can wait. The general Pensioner community should get concerned with what is MALAFIDE.
I described Mr Nidhesh Gupta’s (Sr. Advocate appearing for Jaipur) performance on 8th April 2015 as a SELF GOAL. I stand vindicated on 24th April. Some of us have been blaming the judicial processes and court procedures when we are frustrated due to adjournments every time. When ‘our own’ Counsel is instrumental for a long adjournment, whom should we blame? Our own fate? We tasted a bit of it on 24th, when the Sr Advocate declared ‘inability’ for 30th April thus by pushing the hearing to 7th May – precariously close to the summer vacation.
I have no idea whether there is any understanding between the Counsel and the Client on the ‘availability’ factor. But that is not my real worry. Quite often the clients are helpless and are at the mercy of the Counsel. But I am scared at the prospects of the SELF GOAL drama repeating on 7th May. Here the Client has to be accountable - to the forty thousand Pensioners.
In the early days of my service in LIC, a section of Class III employees (HGAs), used to find themselves victims of a declared antipathy from the majority Union of which they were all members (till they parted ways to protect their interests). Some of the present activists among the pensioner groups like SS Saxena, SN Chhabra and R Rajagopalan and I were all ‘comrades in distresses’ in the very queer situation then. I find a sort of repeat of history now. All the Pensioner groups are supposed to be on one side, facing a mighty LIC and UoI. But in reality, one dominant group claiming to be represented by ONE INDIVIDUAL with zero accountability is treading a dangerous path and perhaps unwittingly play havoc with the interests of its own loyal and trusting members and the rest, looking to them with hope..
ARE THE LIC PENSIONERS HELPLESS?
I am aware a few uninformed individuals may pounce on me for this Post. I am prepared because I have a bigger Mission to pursue and achieve. Will certainly open up with each of my further Posts, thanks to the million-hit-strong LIC PC.