Thoughts about call for 'Restraint' and its effects

Dear Editor,

I fully endorse you for your humble appeal through your editorial yesterday afternoon as well as posts by other esteemed  friends including Sh. Ganga Raju, for showing maximum restraint. But every good gesture has its own side effects too. 

At the cost of repetition, I am of very clear view that it is very difficult for a person to reach the top but still more difficult to stay on the top.

First legal victory by Sh. Asthana from Single Judge Bench followed by second one through Double Judge Bench and again third one through dismissal of review sought by LIC at Jaipur High Court itself made him an all India hero and hence he was at the top.

But what happened thereafter ? 

It was expected by all of us that he will 

continue to stay on the top but unfortunately 

it did not happen. His downfall was unexpected and sudden. 

Reasons are not far to seek. They are not one but so many. 

His attempts to encash his popularity and all india hero image 

through, what people generally allege, collection of Legal Fund 

in his personal bank account despite the fact that he was also 

being financed through AIRIEF Legal Fund, lack of transparency 

and openness, top AIRIEF leadership remaining in silent mode 

for many years without questioning  wasteful spending for filing 

unwanted IAs and petitions, his 'I-know-all' or 'I-only-know; none 

else' attitude and hence not listening to federation leadership at 

various levels or any other case manager and, above all, hitting 

everyone, who either differed with him or questioned, often with 

very bad language, his very simple formula that either you follow 

me blindly or I will label you anti pensioner or agent of LIC/ GOI 

may be possibly a few reasons - all this and more made a lot of 

difference. And that brought him to the present predicament...

Before our issue reached supreme court and other case handlers appeared on the scene, every one knows how communication of court developments at Jaipur was being delayed or shared with lot of twisting and manipulation or sometimes not shared at all with the pensioners.

My humble question to all learned friends is that are you people very sure of a positive effect of our maximum restraint through transformation of Sh. Asthana or will it be an exercise in futility ?


Regards,