Dear Editor,
I am almost regular visitor to Chronicle. I am surprised to what the intelligentsia posers are now coming to give their saner advices to the main case manager Shri Asthana who is the only crusader in the case.
They are considering themselves as Barristers-at-Law sitting at home and evaluating the performance of lawyers and advising them as to where they have gone wrong according to their own wisdom or what they should do.
Where were they when none of these wrestlers came forward to Akhara of our case. It is only after retirement that they have become active. It would be better of their mental and physical health if they keep patience for sometime as the matter is at its fag end.
Have faith on the crusader who had thought of the excesses being perpetrated by LIC, the Central Govt. and thought of fighting legally, more so those who are coming out with points for and against the cases are helping LIC and Union Govt and they do not understand that they are causing harm to the pensioner’s case and so to themselves.
They have vacillating mind and actually they are doing harm to themselves. Legal strategies are kept secret and can not and should not be discussed in public and so also in your Pensioners Chronicle.
These people should shed pessimism and be positive and have trust in the case manager, who has always won and if at all they thought of some positive helpful points they should secretly and confidentially write to Shri Asthana who would welcome suggestions instead of publishing their wisdom, which is of no avail for the pensioners since earlier they could not conceive of anything wrong being done to pensioners.
I hope they would keep shut now and not cause harm to the case coming out for and against suggestions. Since your effort in publishing these remarks without thinking and understanding, this is also not a sane job. A publisher should assess and understand the efforts. I would request you not to publish such thing in your blog.
Thanking and wishing you good luck.
J.K. Sharma, KARNAL
Shri Sharma has written this post almost like the posts written by Shri MP Subrahmanian of Madurai in the past. We value the advice of Shri Sharma and Shri Subrahmanian. But there are problems. We should know that even AIRIEF leadership has problems in dealing with Shri Asthana.
And those who have ever tried to come in contact with Shri Asthana will readily agree they have experienced difficulties. We too would like to go on record to say that we have experienced taste of his way of dealing with others with just nothing but only contempt.
But we resisted the temptation of publishing certain materials thinking that we should not be a party to creating confusion and controversy at this time of our having the concluding sessions in the Supreme Court of India. We won't say Shri Asthana should change his style of functioning. It is too late to aspire to harbour any such views or pious hopes. But Shri Sharma should know that some of those who criticise Shri Asthana may be perhaps doing so for some valid reasons. Beyond that, we will not like to say anything. Let us wait for the Supreme Court case to conclude. -Ed.