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The Lok Satta Party public interactions meet with JP
Written By psaram42 - 7 April, 2010
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After the recent BBMP election JP is visiting Bangalore in carrying forward the new party’s agenda. This interaction reminded us the probable scenario which might have prevailed at the time of freedom struggle. The fight now is against the middle class apathy ignorance and above all their pretence to know best according to JP.
JP stressed on the importance of local government. An increase in per capita income alone may make the country rich but still a banana republic. He felt that with proper management the malaise like power cuts etc can be avoided altogether.
To days scenario highlights the viciously guarded statues quo by our politicians. The confused nonchalance and apathy of the voters is a boon to them. Many levels of changes are needed. JP alluded to the two major types of corruption, the extortional and collusive type of corruption. Both kind of corruption are to be tackled.
In countries like the US it is not possible to buy votes. We had with us in the interactive meet to day one Mr. Scot who was the campaign manager for President Obama. After JP left we had interesting interaction with Mr. Scot also.
COMMENTS
deepakar - 7 April, 2010 - 07:52
Loksatta - Agent for change in politics ?
Naveen - 7 April, 2010 - 08:35
This party has impressed me a lot, particularly their well-informed leader Dr JP, apart from their "no-compromise" attitude against buying votes & other clean party principles.
We had a similar sort of 'revolution' in India's business world with Infosys leading the way. Some such revolution is badly needed in politics & hopefully, Lok Satta can catalyze the way people from all classes begin to recognize the value of such principles amongst various parties.
Bheema.Upadhyaya - 7 April, 2010 - 09:48
Anyone has analysis why Loksatta people were not elected? Also now its the time they should join hands to work the person who is elected, be he/she less educated or whatever?
All the best Loksatta. For next election plan/work from right now.
Rithesh - 7 April, 2010 - 13:09
Dr JP's gesture of coming down to B'lore to interact and console his candidates is very commendable. His admission that this had been a painful journey for him and the warning to his party workers that this is just the start of their journey was indeed very touching.
They have a long way to go. It will be interesting to note how the party holds itself together (in AP these is a bonding force called JP - Mr. Prakash is doing a great job here - I hope he will be successful).
LS as it is today seams like is a party of "Middle class" and not even all of the "Middle class" recognize there is a party with that name. And if you ask about the lower segments of the party - not many would have even heard of "Lok Satta".
There was a person in the audience who asked Dr. JP, how his party is going to reach out to lower segments of the society - in the barrage of questions JP probably missed out on this crucial question. Concentrating on civic issues is only going to get them this far. The party i hope will reach out to people in slums through such initiatives like education, health awareness campaigns. I am sure they will anyways work towards ensuring tht the newly elected representatives do their work (RTIs?).
A Commendable job by smart vote
psaram42 - 8 April, 2010 - 05:17
“The SmartVote campaign on Friday questioned the statistics put out by the SEC, claiming that the poll percentage in the March 28 BBMP polls was actually 53%, not 44.04% as estimated by the SEC.”
Commander, rtd, PG Bhat made this point at the meet. The voters list is highly erroneous and hence the low percentage voting is a misnomer.
JP addressing the gathering. The gathering was small in numbers.
Scot the campaign Manager for President Obama now visiting Bangalore
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