http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Left_to_protest_against_Malabar_war_games/articleshow/2302335.cms
Exercise Malabar is a bilateral U.S.-Indian Navy training exercise held off the coast of Okinawa, Japan to increase interoperability between the Indian and U.S. Navies while enhancing the cooperative security relationship between the two countries.The at-sea training will include sea control operations, maritime interdiction maritime operations, and will exercise all major warfare areas. The participants will conduct personnel exchanges and professional discussions both at sea and ashore.During the exercise, the two nations’ ships will work together in a variety of functional skill areas, including visit boarding search and seizure (VBSS), surface exercises, formation steaming, coordinated surface fire support, air defense exercises and antisubmarine warfare training.This is the ninth iteration of the Malabar Exercise series, which was last held in September 2006 off the coast of India.
This presents a fantastic opportunity for the Indian Navy to train alonside state of the naval vessels of the most advanced navies of the world. What objections the Left can have to our Navy training with the best is baffling. It is interesting that China too objects to the Malabar Exercises.
By now it has become standard practice for the Left to oppose any initiative the govt takes. So where is the outside support it talks about? The people of India too are fed up of Karat, AB Burdhan, D Raja and Sitaram Yechury. Why dont they propose any alternatives that are acceptable to them and beneficial for the nation at the same time? Their list of 'donts' never seems to end anywhere! It would not be out of order to say they promised the Govt 'outside interference' and not support of any kind.
The Govt has rightly rejected the Left's demand to cancell the Exercise and accurately assessed that it would amount to diluting India's international commitments. The five nation Exercise must commence as scheduled on 4th Sep at the chosen venue.
Exercise Malabar is a bilateral U.S.-Indian Navy training exercise held off the coast of Okinawa, Japan to increase interoperability between the Indian and U.S. Navies while enhancing the cooperative security relationship between the two countries.The at-sea training will include sea control operations, maritime interdiction maritime operations, and will exercise all major warfare areas. The participants will conduct personnel exchanges and professional discussions both at sea and ashore.During the exercise, the two nations’ ships will work together in a variety of functional skill areas, including visit boarding search and seizure (VBSS), surface exercises, formation steaming, coordinated surface fire support, air defense exercises and antisubmarine warfare training.This is the ninth iteration of the Malabar Exercise series, which was last held in September 2006 off the coast of India.
This presents a fantastic opportunity for the Indian Navy to train alonside state of the naval vessels of the most advanced navies of the world. What objections the Left can have to our Navy training with the best is baffling. It is interesting that China too objects to the Malabar Exercises.
By now it has become standard practice for the Left to oppose any initiative the govt takes. So where is the outside support it talks about? The people of India too are fed up of Karat, AB Burdhan, D Raja and Sitaram Yechury. Why dont they propose any alternatives that are acceptable to them and beneficial for the nation at the same time? Their list of 'donts' never seems to end anywhere! It would not be out of order to say they promised the Govt 'outside interference' and not support of any kind.
The Govt has rightly rejected the Left's demand to cancell the Exercise and accurately assessed that it would amount to diluting India's international commitments. The five nation Exercise must commence as scheduled on 4th Sep at the chosen venue.
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