Sunday 6 October 2013

Re: [www.keralites.net] Bangladesh honours VK Krishna Menon

 

Yes you are absolutely RIGHT when you say "The North Indians does not like his deep knowledge & understanding and wanted to bring him down in public eye and succeeded". North Indian lobby has done enough of damage to this personality. It is recorded that the FIRST corruption in independent India is VK Krishna Menon's "JEEP SCANDAL". Even after 65 years nobody knows what is this Jeep Scandal. Mr. Menon was the first Indian HIGH COMMISSIONER to Great Britain. In those days the High Commissioners used to have addtional powers such as TRADE and COMMERCIAL transactions which an ordinary ambassadors do not have. Using his power as High Commissioner he purchased 2,000 Jeeps for a sum of Rs.80lakhs, @ Rs.4,000/ jeep, without the sanction from the cabinet. Incidentally any small passenger car used to cost around Rs. 8,000/- in Indian market those days. A popular English weekly by name Blitz from Bombay made it a big issue and published in the weekly as JEEP SCANDAL and that news got wide publicity in Bombay and in North India. Since VKK Menon was a member of British County for 14 years and a powerful politician of Great Briton and a close friend of Nehru the North Indian lobby played it and tarnished his image. Later on during 1967 parliament election,the Chief Editor, RK Karanjia of the same weekly Blitz, which has tarnished his image, took the publicity of sri VKK Menon in North East Bombay. That is also a History.

For more information please be kind enough to visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._K._Krishna_Menon

Gangadharan Nair  


On 6 October 2013 23:27, kv krishnamurthy <kvkmurthy1@yahoo.com> wrote:
Most pleasing message I have recd. for many years about such a high & intelligent personality. Many thanks for bringing this valuable information to the public in general.  The North Indians does not like his deep knowledge & understanding and wanted to bring him down in public eye and succeeded.  It is a great honor that a foreign Government has honored him and praised him about his selfless work for India.   I myself have seen him in one of his visits to Calcutta in 1943/44, and attended his lecture.
My good wishes to you - K V Krishnamurthy- a keralite

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Subject: [www.keralites.net] Bangladesh honours VK Krishna Menon

 
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Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 5 (IANS): Former Indian defence minister V.K. Krishna Menon has been posthumously honoured by the Bangladesh government with the 'Friends of Liberation War' award.
The award was received by Krishna Menon's grandniece Radha Anand Menon at a ceremony at Bangabandhu International Convention Centre in Dhaka Oct 1, according to information available here. The award was conferred by President Abdul Hamid at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, among others.
Menon, who studied at the London School of Economics and University College, London, also spearheaded the movement for India's independence from Britain. He founded the India League to lobby the British parliament and influence public opinion in Britain for the cause of India's freedom.
He was also India's first envoy to England before he became defence minister in Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet.
Krishna Menon is remembered as an extraordinary orator, and delivered a record eight-hour speech in the United Nations in 1957 defending India's stand on Kashmir.
Menon was born in Kozhikode in Kerala in 1896, and travelled to Chennai and London for higher studies.
He was also the Lok Sabha member from Thiruvananthapuram from 1971 till his death in 1974. Menon died at the age of 78 on 6 October 1974, whereupon Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi remarked that "a VOLCANO is extinct". At a 1984 memorial lecture for Menon, K.R. Narayanan extolled that "India has been fortunate to have had not only a glorious heritage of culture and civilisation but a succession of great men from the Buddha to Gandhi, from Ashoka to Nehru, from Kautilya to Krishna Menon."
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