While everyone is wondering what food quality has to do with his behavior, officials are trying their best to kill the messenger. Agree that taste isn’t good because in winters there is tinned&dehydrated food but jawans don’t complain.
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The IG’ added that because of such behaviour, Yadav had mostly served on headquarters “under supervision of some dedicated superior officer”.
In its second interim report, BSF stated that the “daal” shown in the jawan’s video was uncanned from tinned food ration and the “parantha” was cooked in the unit mess as per procedures followed at high-altitude locations.
The BSF further said, “the audit of prevalent system by a team of senior commanding officers, chalking out shortcomings of the process, suggesting procedural and systematic improvements, vigilance set up reenthused for double checks (are underway)”.
Yadav – attached to the BSF’s 29th battalion posted along the Indo-Pakistan border – posted four videos on social media that sparked widespread outrage.
“”He was a habitual offender of absenteeism without permission, chronic alcoholism, misbehaving and using force with superior officers.””.
“A lot of times we go to sleep hungry”, the soldier adds, saying their breakfast consists of a “burnt paratha” with tea, and tasteless lentils for lunch and dinner. Seeing the kind of support it has got, Minister of Home Affairs in India, Rajnath Singh, took to Twitter to share that immediate measures will be taken after a probe. “How do you expect us to stand and guard the border all day when this is the sort of food given to us”.
Assuming that the “official” BSF reaction is correct leads to the inevitable question: why was this man with a “difficult past” who needed “regular counselling” manning a high altitude post near the global border?
The constable’s act had stirred up a hornet’s nest as the videos shot by him went viral on social media, and there was outcry across the country against the alleged ill-treatment meted out to the troops defending the bitterly cold frontiers.
“I request the Prime Minister to get this probed.no one shows our plight”, Yadav alleged.
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A BSF official, who did not wish to be named, said that while allegations levelled by Yadav are serious, authorities were sceptical because of his service record. He even wondered aloud whether anyone can pilfer food stuff meant for the soldiers.
