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The People's Curator 8 ISSUES AND INSIGHTS MUMBAI | 15 JUNE 2019 > proving oneself innocent was on the accused. gle biggest fear, patently unfounded, was a Fourteen and 15-year olds were sent to jail military coup. The existing army department Rajnath Singh’s dilemma on charges of copying. The pass percentage was turned first into the department of Lessons from HK in the UP High School Board examination defence and later the MoD. At the time, The new defence minister has to correct a major for Class X in 1991 was 58.03. In 1992, after defence secretary H M Patel and his successor t has been a fairly the anti-copying law was put in place, it twice offered to integrate the service head- crowded fortnight asymmetry. Will his discipline come in the way? slipped to 14.7. Singh had to pay for his con- quarters with MoD. But General Rajindersinhji I in terms of news, victions: He contested the Assembly election and General K S Thimayya refused, fearing and so some might channels chattered on loudly about how from Mohana, a student-dominated they would lose operational command and have missed what, Rajnath Singh ka kad gir gaya hai (Rajnath constituency near Lucknow in 1993, and was the panoply of pomp and pageantry by joining for me, has been the Singh has lost his stature). By the evening, defeated comprehensively. He was sent to the ministerial whirlpool. most interesting and the government had reversed the decision the Rajya Sabha in 1994. He became a Soon, the army got fully involved in J&K, perhaps important and reissued the notification. Not once did minister in the Vajpayee and later the Junagadh, Hyderabad and Goa operations. story of the past fort- he suggest/offer/threaten/to resign. Modi government. While its prestige rose, its clout gradually night. This is a story Discipline has served him well. From a Now he has become defence minister for declined. It was not even consulted in decid- that comes neither nondescript Member of the Legislative that very quality: Discipline. He is represent- ing crucial operational issues. Civilian from India nor from Council of Uttar Pradesh (UP) to a second term ing a BJP government which has come to pow- bureaucracy, in cahoots with the political TICKER Europe or from as a member of the Cabinet Committee on er promising to champion the cause of soldiers leadership, cut the services down to size. The America, but from Security (CCS) has been punctuated by impor- afflicted by prolonged neglect, bureaucratic generals were careless and naïve not to MIHIR SHARMA tiny Hong Kong, tant milestones. Rajnath Singh was UP’s edu- interference and marginalisation in defence notice the diminution in their stature and which has once again PLAIN POLITICS cation minister, chief of the state unit of the policy-making. status. But the civilian bureaucracy at once taken to the streets to party, president of the central BJP and a min- The seeds of the deformed national secu- grasped the import of civilian control and protest interference by Beijing in the self-administering ADITI PHADNIS ister in the union cabinet several times. To say rity and defence architecture, and mistrust in went about following a policy of divide and city’s affairs. nothing of the overt and covert roles he has civil-military relations were sown at the time rule: keeping divided the three wings of the When I say “interference by Beijing” and “self-admin- performed on the orders of the Rashtriya of Independence when the British Indian armed forces and parrying proposals of their istering”, I am not being strictly accurate, of course, but f Rajnath Singh was upset about being Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the parent body armed forces were converting from an impe- integration with the ministry, not without that is because normal language cannot quite manage dropped from two cabinet committees of the BJP. rial garrison of a theatre command to a nation- assistance from the services themselves. the shades of truth and falsehood that are necessary when I — the Cabinet Committee on Political He was elected an MLA from Mirzapur in al army. The origin of these uncivil relations From the stunning decline in the Warrant of dealing with authoritarian regimes. The Hong Kong Affairs and the Cabinet Committee on 1977 when he was just 26, a result of being is the oft-quoted dispute between C-in-C Precedence to the erosion of financial and Special Administrative Region is technically self-govern- Parliamentary Affairs — he gave no public associated with the student wing of the Jana Kitchener and Viceroy Curzon. The insistence operational autonomy, the decline corroded ing, but its parliament and chief executive are not exactly hint of it. The only indication that he was a Sangh during the Emergency and being by Curzon to introduce an additional member promotions, postings, ceremonial functions democratically elected. The current chief executive of bit hurt at being de jure number two in the jailed. The late 1980s and early 1990s in UP in his executive council to exercise financial and even distribution of canteen profits. At Hong Kong, Carrie Lam, was picked by an electoral col- government but not considered important were the years of the rise of Kalyan Singh control was opposed by Kitchener. 150 years one stage, the MoD also asked to scrutinise lege of 1,200 people that is essentially stacked with pro- enough to be included in the committees was who appointed Rajnath Singh education later, the legacy of that dispute lingers. promotion exams and was told it was a pro- Beijing members. A chief executive of Hong Kong cannot an off-hand remark, made with a smile. “Kya minister in 1991. One of his first moves as Except for Subhas Chandra Bose and fessional matter. be associated with any political party. mein tumhe chhe foot sey paanch foot ke lagne minister was to bring, through an ordinance, Mahatma Gandhi who did not survive the It is this asymmetry that Rajnath Singh has Thus what the people of Hong Kong are protesting is laga hoon” (do you think I now measure five the anti-copying law, making copying a non- aftermath of Independence, India's political to correct as defence minister. Will discipline the decisions of their own chief executive, which they feet instead of six), he asked an aide as TV bailable offence — which meant the onus of leaders lacked military experience. Their sin- come in the way? say are serving Beijing’s interests and not their own. In fact, they are protesting one decision in particular: A new extradition law that might allow the government to extradite residents of Hong Kong to mainland China for LUNCH WITH BS > SABYASACHI MUKHERJEE | DIRECTOR GENERAL | CSMVS trial. In the sort of absurdity one expects under such sys- tems, the Hong Kong government’s claimed reason for this new law is to ensure that a particular extradition of a murder suspect takes place — but not to the People’s Republic of China, but to the Republic of China or Taiwan. To add to the absurdity, Taipei has said that it will not recognise extraditions under the law, in solidarity with The people’s curator Hong Kong’s protestors. Perhaps all such demonstrations are futile. We don’t know how strong the pro- and anti-Beijing factions within Mukherjee tells Arundhati Dasgupta how he plans to bring director of the British Museum, at Hong Kong are, because it has never been allowed to hold Trishna, a popular seafood restau- a free and fair election. Further, the notion of a single down the walls between people and their culture rant in the vicinity. “We were keen unarmed town challenging the might of the People’s to bring it here but the cost and the Republic is a little absurd. Hong Kong’s time is running logistics were daunting. The out, after all. Beijing promised to honour “one country, ood is not on his mind as and everything changed from everyone is curious but we don’t entire project cost close to ~14 two systems” for 50 years after it was handed Hong Kong Sabyasachi Mukherjee casts there,” he says. have enough people to take this for- crore. This was the most expen- by Britain in 1997. Soon, half that period will be up, and F a perfunctory look at the He has been two decades (and ward,” he says. Mukherjee is a sive ever for us and we had to the freedoms of Hong Kong residents — including their menu before suggesting that we some more) at the helm. Under him, strong advocate for setting up ded- get support.” freedoms of speech and assembly — are already under sample the buffet, popular with the museum has undergone a dra- icated Indian heritage management Organising the funds was sur- threat. Recently, for the first time, uniformed soldiers office goers in the area. We are at matic change, shedding its old elit- institutes and training people to prisingly easy. Money is not the owing allegiance to Beijing were posted in the city, osten- Kala Ghoda, Mumbai’s art district ist form with mothballed artefacts look after what could be a goldmine hurdle, mindsets are, he says. sibly to guard the Hong Kong end of a high-speed train where Mukherjee works and lives, and slow whirring fans into an open, for the country’s exchequer, in “Before you transform an institu- line. Most importantly, the government of Xi Jinping has a stone’s throw away from Copper well-lit structure bringing in exhi- terms of tourism revenue. tion, you transform its people,” he shown that it believes that Beijing’s new strength means Chimney, where we have seated bitions from all over the world.
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