This refers to the editorial, “Nothing inhuman here” (May 24). We must salute Major Nitin leetul Gogoi for his strategy on saving the Army officers. We are grateful that Chief of the Army Staff, General Bipin Rawat, has commended him. The Armed Forces are many a times sent into conflicts with their hands tied.
If they shoot the stone-pelters with rubber bullets, they are reviled as blinding our youth. The peaceniks are baying for Major Gogoi’s blood. There is a large silent majority, me included, that appreciates the presence of mind and dexterity with which he saved the situation. The person he tied at the front of the van was one of the stone-pelters.
We salute the Chief of the Army Staff, the Indian Army, and Major Gogoi whose strategy brings to mind Shivaji’s strategy of escaping from Agra.