M.S. Sekhon - Sikhs The Supreme

Air Marshal M.S. Sekhon, one of the highest decorated officers of IAF-awardee of Vr. C, VM and 16 more awards for carrying forward the highest traditions of service to the nation set by the fellow pilots like Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon (the lone PVC awardee IAF officer), was denied the post of IAF Chief inspite of seniority and merit as the regime of BJP did not want to see a Sikh IAF Chief, for the reasons best known to them, otherwise a recommendatory letter from Chief Minister P.S. Badal would have not been made a lame excuse to deny promotion to Mr. Sekhon by Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee. He was forced to resign.

Our bad luck was that our leaders, Sikh MPs and CM Badal could not muster courage to dare this communal decision, as every Sikh leader keeps his interests first. CM Badal's letter to PM Vajpayee recommending transfer of Air Marshal Sekhon to Western Command as Chief of the command happened to be costlier to this episode. It is worth noting that all Sikh Chiefs of Army or IAF happened to be in the regime of Congress, though there are also examples of injustice to many Sikh commanders like Lt. Gen. Kulwant Singh, Lt. Gen. Harbaksh Singh & Lt. Gen. J.S. Arora.

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