I am writing this as a member of SBIOAK, not as a member of SEWA. I am writing this with anguish and anxiety. I am concerned at the ugly developments. SBIOAK has traversed a difficult path and withered many a challenges during its journey to the present. It could wither many a challenges quite successfuly because the challenges were from the outside. But the current turmoil it is in, is a self-inflicted one brought upon itself by selfseeking and egotistic personalities. This is more dangerous because one can always fight and overcome an outside enemy but difficult to fight an enemy with in.
I contemplated for quite long whether to write this blog or not. I was in a dilemma. Whether my writing this blog will bring the unpleasant thing to public domain when they are supposed to be discussed and sorted out in private. Since they are washing their dirty linen in the public, I no more face any dilemma and hence this blog.
Now that the cat is out of the bag and everything is water under the bridge, there is no point in ruminating over the past. Whoever has done whatever wrong has got his comeuppance and has paid the price. No doubt the revelations are shocking, most shameful and unimaginable that a person occupying an important position in SBIOAK can stoop to such a low level. It is simply unthinkable. It has brought enormous disrepute to the the organization and has done irreparable damage to the credibility of SBIOAK. And it pains me.
The need of the hour is to exhibit extraordinary maturity on the part of the remaining office bearers to deal with the most difficult times SBIOAK is passing through. I advise them not to resort to groupism and align on the personality lines. They should have the interest of the members uppermost in their minds. Now that the black sheep is
quarantined, you have got to work cohesively and unitedly lest you should be quarantined by the members very soon. They have to move heaven and earth to regain the confidence of the members. Presently SBIOAK is suffering from huge trust deficit.
The most unfortunate takeaway of this sordid drama is - since it is happening at the nose of the headquarters of the Federation, it is a loud and clear message about the utter failure of the leadership of the Federation.
Perhaps a part of the blame for this crisis may convincingly be transferred to the doorsteps of the tall leaders who held the reins till the last day without bothering to nurture/groom the second line. All of a sudden the persons who succeeded these leaders were left in the lurch not knowing what to do. There is a feeling, belief and suspicion that these retired leaders are still calling the tunes and not a single step/action of the present leadership happens without their wink and nod.
While I have no qualms for this, my only concern was why these people didn't forsee the possible leadership vacuum once they depart from the scene. And they should have done this (what they are doing from their homes now) while holding the post. They could have done some handholding. This could have done immense good to the organization. With due respects to what all they did to develop SBIOAK from the scratch, they cannot escape the blame for this omission. After all SBIOAK is their baby.
Karnataka has the distinction of producing leaders of trade union at the national level for the entire banking industry. It is abhoring to imagine the abysmal level they have fallen.
Hoping that good sense prevails.
K.N.Krishnan.
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