That’s the difference between India and Pakistan and it is for good. Defence forces don’t control things in India. And the democracy in India has always done good for us inspite of ups and downs.
Both the nations were created at the same time with Pakistan under military rule for the most part and we all know where it stands in terms of all development matrices.
Indian military knows its place and would never dare to try and grow beyond their show size and play a role that they don’t need to.
I put it to you that India, in its entire 75 odd years of existence, has never once understood what "democracy" is. Your populace remains wholly ignorant and misled by your leadership - BJP is worse than Congress, admittedly, but both have used lies and propaganda to mislead and to destroy rational discourse. The populace remains mostly oblivious to the true machinations of the state and happily shuffles along in a perpetually dalitised state, simply regurgitating state propaganda and proudly "defending" national interest by way of violent subjugation and disenfranchisement of those who hold a counter-narrative.
A nation where a grieving widow of a serviceman Is subjected to immediate rape threats for simply asking citizens to respect one another and remain united in the face of a (supposed) external threat cannot, by any measure, be regarded even as a mature civilised nation state, let alone one where democracy flourishes in its truest sense. Where is the rational discourse, the logic, the evidence-based argumentation? I quote but one of many, daily examples of the failure of democracy in Hindustan.
On the contrary, vote banking and democratic processes in The Secular Republic have been manipulated and hijacked by the ethnoreligious demagoguery of populism. There is only one direction this trajectory can now take.
The same stupefied frenzy that has earned votes among a deceived, dumbed down, and mentally paralysed populace has now returned to haunt India by stifling progress, silencing rational critique, and reversing development. Your armed forces open their mouths to speak and utter gibberish emerges. Manekshaw, who earned victories by creating terrorist groups, was certainly not admired by Pakistanis but we respected his conduct and professionalism in some respects - he would be spinning in his grave at the sight of General Chauhan feebly responding to a humble news reporter, the thought of entire rooms of officers literally fleeing and vacating a room when a single journalist asks a difficult question about casualties of war, Air Force chiefs holding aloft pieces of used contraceptives as some form of victory parade!
Your summative statement that India's military "knows its place" is indicative of the delusions that you reside under. Our military also knows its place, and that is a place of mutual respect. Our military knows we will grieve with them and rejoice with them, regardless of our political leaning.
We have come to realise that your military fears the wrath and anger of your own people for their failures that are not actually their own fault, but rather the fault of a governance system that thrives off creating a nation that exists in a state of ignorance and blind obedience, rather than one that advances through discourse and rationality.
Govt for that
