Details of support

Dear friends and comrades,

The Board has started its exercise to ascertain the actual support enjoyed by our AIB and that of the former SG.  For an investigation organisation, it should not have been so difficult to find.  But, going by the RSA Rules, they have decided to conduct a PH, before a committee constituted for this purpose, to enable both sides to put forth their arguments.  Accordingly, we have been invited on 27.7.18.  The former SG is to be heard on 17.7.18.

In this context some of the members from those units which are yet to take a decision or where office bearers are not active/available, have been contacting me and some of our office bearers regarding the actual support enjoyed by us.  Since for the ordinary members, the names of the units and regions represented by them may not be easy to understand, a map is given above.

The map depicts our support base.  The States which are marked with blue are entirely with our AIB. They are as below.  The names of the States/UT and the units in each are also indicated.

State	Name of Unit(s)
J&K	Chandigarh
HP
Punjab
Chandigarh UT
Rajasthan	Jaipur
Gujarat	Surat-Daman
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
	Jabalpur
	Malwa
Chattisgarh	Chattisgarh
Maharashtra	Aurangabad
	Mumbai
	Nashik
	Pune
	Vidharbha
Goa	Goa
Karnataka	Karnataka
Kerala	Kerala
Tamil Nadu	Chennai
	Coimbatore
	Madurai
	Salem
	Tirunelveli
	Trichirapally
Odisha	Bhubaneswar
West Bengal	Kolkata
Sikkim
Andaman Nicobar

Apart from the above units, the Lucknow Customs Preventive Unit which encompasses the entire UP, Bhiar and Jharkhand has also declared their support to our AIB.  (THUS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF UNITS SUPPORTING THIS AIB IS 24) Some functional units in UP and the only unit of Bihar & Jharkand are supporting the former SG. These regions are marked with blue dots in the above map.

Delhi Unit have given a letter to the Board stating that they are supporting neither side as of now and only after their GB a decision will be taken. The region is indicated with black stripes.

A similar stand has been orally communicated to us by the Shillong unit which encompasses the North Eastern States and hence is indicated with black dots.

Within Gujarat, Surat and Daman have declared their support to us. Rajkot is the only other functional unit  in Gujarat which is yet to decide.  Similarly the Units in Andhra Pradesh and Telengana are also yet to decide.  These regions which are yet to decide are shown in white.

From the above depiction, it will be clear that the majority of the cadre has already taken a clear stand.

We hope that without waiting for the Board to decide on the issue, the rest of the cadre will see reason to be with the majority.  Instead of taking a decision for oneself, waiting for some one else to decide for us would be a bane for the future of the cadre. It is an insult heaped on ourselves.

Keeping on talking of unity - that the leaders should come together, that the Board should identify the correct person to represent the cadre, that all units should be brought under one umbrella, etc would only exhibit our lack of knowledge that the cause of division itself is fundamental - whether the cadre has to be represented by one belonging to the cadre or not, whether that one should represent the cadre in its entirety or only oneself or a selected few and whether all of us are prepared to abide by a majority decision or not. 

Members of the undecided units may take these into consideration and form their considered opinions.  If they can do so before 27.7.18 it will be great for all of us.

-R. Manimohan,

SG, AIACEGEO