MoD owns credit, passes discredits to DRDO
May 12, 2007 (FIDSNS)
It is a common knowledge that leader owns up responsibility. But Indian Ministry of defence thinks otherwise. The Indian Minister of Defence is shameless in taking full credit of DRDO accomplishments, otherwise passes the bucks to DRDO.
It was evident in the press release on Friday, May 11, 2007 in which the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a written reply to Prof Mahadeorao Shiwankar in Lok Sabha wrote “Representatives of the Indian Air Force had participated in the development trials of the Akash Missile System conducted by DRDO, as observers and provided user’s inputs for improvement in the system performance. Some trials at the development stage had not been fully successful. User’s trial are likely to commence shortly.”
While assigning the Akash incident to DRDO, the Defence Minister Shri AK Antony in a written reply to Shri Pankaj Chowdhary in Lok Sabha wrote on the same day ” The Government has conducted the test flight of pilotless combat aircraft the ‘Lakshya’ recently. Two Lakshya development campaigns were conducted at Integrated Test Range (ITR), Balasore during 3-5 January 2007 and 5-9 March 2007 to fly digital Pilotless Target Aircraft, Lakshya in autonomous mode and evaluate engine performance with one tow and one stow configuration, respectively. Both the campaigns met with the broad mission objectives.”
It is a common knowledge that DRDO has conducted both Akash Missile and Lakshya PTA trials and not the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.
If Mr. AK Antony is known for his clean image, imagine the politicians with unclean image!
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