5th DEC 1931 EX-ADMIRAL JAYANT GANPAT NARLIKAR BORN
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Admiral Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni
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Admiral Nadkarni was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal for distinguished service in 1969, the Naosena Medal in 1977, the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal in 1983 and the Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) in 1985. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College (and the Naval War College, New Port, Rhode Island. He retired from the Indian Navy after 41 years service on 30 November 1990.
Admiral Nadkarni is married to Mrs. Vimal Nadkarni and they have two sons, one of whom is a Commander in the Indian Navy. Since retirement he has settled in Pune. He was one of the founding members of the Centre for Advanced Strategic Studies, a think tank in Pune and served as its first Director for three years. He writes on defence subjects frequently in newspapers and internet magazines.
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Former Navy Chief J.G. Nadkarni, who had in 1990 recommended the dismissal of then Rear Admiral Bhagwat for alleged indiscipline.
Former Navy Chief J.G. Nadkarni, who had in 1990 recommended the dismissal of then Rear Admiral Bhagwat for alleged indiscipline.
Subsequent events have been recorded by R. Venkataraman, who, as head of state, had a unique vantage point from which to view them. Shortly after assuming office, Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar made overtures to the President through the Defence Secretary, to ask whether Ramdas' appointment could be rescinded. The President demurred. Orders on the succession had already been issued and their withdrawal would create avoidable confusion and heartburn, he argued. Chandra Shekhar was insistent: could not Nadkarni then be given an extension, he asked. Venkataraman was again lukewarm. There was no obvious rationale for what was clearly an extraordinary step, he responded, and a Service Chief on extension would fail to command the unequivocal allegiance of his men.
What these presidential reminiscences point to is an officer cadre in the Navy that was riven by deep factional politics from at least 1990. Bhagwat's petition in the Bombay High Court was symptomatic of a problem that had reached near crisis proportions. The core of his legal challenge was completely different from Harinder Singh's in 1998. Bhagwat's case was that both the CNS and the ACC were bound by relevant criteria laid down by the Navy law and regulations; he had clear and well-documented grounds to allege mala fide on the part of his superior officers.
In endorsing the dismissal of Bhagwat, Nadkarni and S.M. Nanda are singular in their own ways among former Navy Chiefs. Their reasons are partly congruent. Nanda heads one of the most successful arms brokerage firms in India, with operations in Moscow and London. His son took early retirement from the Indian Navy to join the family business, and is reported to have provided hospitality in London to the wife of Harinder Singh during his overseas visit in May 1997. Nadkarni was investigated by the CBI in 1990-91 for alleged "assets disproportionate to his known sources of income." The matter ended with his paying considerable income tax dues.
Further inferences, although of a tentative nature, are possible for anybody who recalls that the Chandra Shekhar Government, during its undistinguished tenure, afforded a most congenial environment for all manner of commercial adventurers. The first, unavailing efforts to scupper the Bofors investigations were made during this period. The linkages with l'affaire Vishnu Bhagwat would be apparent if it is remembered that Bofors has so far been the only serious and productive investigation into the rampant problem of corruption in defence procurement. To step back from the immediate imbroglio and take in the larger picture is to go right to the source of the turmoil that has seized the top officer corps of the Indian Navy. It is to realise the full dimensions and ramifications of the continuing flirtation with the global arms bazaar, to the detriment of professional military evaluations of national security.
IT is significant that the principal belligerents on behalf of the Government - George Fernandes and Atal Behari Vajpayee - were nowhere in evidence in the public debate that followed the dismissal. Beyond seeking refuge in enigmatic and unexplained references to "national security", they have managed to say little of substantive value. On the contrary, every explanation they have floated - whether directly or through their proxies in the media - has been shot down almost immediately.
Combat through innuendo was the chosen strategy of the Defence Minister in the week after the dismissal. Bhagwat was accused of sheltering an allegedly unsavoury subordinate, Rear Admiral S.V. Purohit. As officiating Chief of Logistics in NHQ, Purohit, it was alleged, had cultivated ties of great intimacy with blacklisted defence firms and profited from them. Yet Bhagwat was intent not merely on retaining him in a pivotal position, but also on promoting him to the next higher rank.
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