Pune city forms a new political party for sustainable development through people's participation
About 350 people attended a meeting at Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture on 27th April at 11.00 am, the meeting was called to form a olitical parties/initiative in Pune city.
The Agenda taken up was:
1. Formation of a political party named: People's Guardian (JanaRakshak) Party.
The following steps would be taken towards this aim:
a. More than 100 affidavits were needed of people who wanted to be members of this proposed political party. This was quickly oversubscribed. The affidavits will be sent to the Central Election Commission which requires these as a formality in the process of registering the Party Name and registration of the party itself.
b. A team of lawyers and core members is also working on the constitution of the party. This constitution will be accompanied by the above mentioned affidavits in the application sent to the CEC, New Delhi.
c. The experiences of the election in 2003 - when Arun Bhatia won 60,000 votes as an independent candidate, BJP only 5 times more, and Congress 6 times more (respectively 3,00,000 and 3,50,000) inspite of there being a vast (1:1000) difference and mismatch in resources such as money, manpower and preparations.
For example: both the parties had political networking built up over the last 50 years ! The Arun Bhatia campaign team had no experience and worked only 3 months with 50 full time workers and 2000 part time supporters. The two parties have 25000 workers in the city, each.)
d. Speeches were made by all those who wished to comment on the proposal of starting the party. All positive speeches with great enthusiasm. The general theme was - the time has come for such a party. All those who were at the core of the 2003 campaign were present again.
e. Next central committee meeting fixed for 25th May tentatively at NFAI Auditorium, Law college road. Each was asked to bring at least 2 deeply interested friends. Agenda will include forming the sub-committees for laying the foundation of work for coming Lok Sabha Elections in 2009.
f. Anyone can invite Mr Arun Bhatia and a small team of friends to their housing societies for a talk on "How and why to ensure voter registrations in our housing society and in the locality". It is not an invitation for a political talk about elections. It is an invitation to call Mr Bhatia to share his views on Indian Democracy and how it works currently - and what is the change needed in it.
I the next meeting will be held on 25th May at NFAI auditorium.
Reported by Vinod Bodhankar
The Agenda taken up was:
1. Formation of a political party named: People's Guardian (JanaRakshak) Party.
The following steps would be taken towards this aim:
a. More than 100 affidavits were needed of people who wanted to be members of this proposed political party. This was quickly oversubscribed. The affidavits will be sent to the Central Election Commission which requires these as a formality in the process of registering the Party Name and registration of the party itself.
b. A team of lawyers and core members is also working on the constitution of the party. This constitution will be accompanied by the above mentioned affidavits in the application sent to the CEC, New Delhi.
c. The experiences of the election in 2003 - when Arun Bhatia won 60,000 votes as an independent candidate, BJP only 5 times more, and Congress 6 times more (respectively 3,00,000 and 3,50,000) inspite of there being a vast (1:1000) difference and mismatch in resources such as money, manpower and preparations.
For example: both the parties had political networking built up over the last 50 years ! The Arun Bhatia campaign team had no experience and worked only 3 months with 50 full time workers and 2000 part time supporters. The two parties have 25000 workers in the city, each.)
d. Speeches were made by all those who wished to comment on the proposal of starting the party. All positive speeches with great enthusiasm. The general theme was - the time has come for such a party. All those who were at the core of the 2003 campaign were present again.
e. Next central committee meeting fixed for 25th May tentatively at NFAI Auditorium, Law college road. Each was asked to bring at least 2 deeply interested friends. Agenda will include forming the sub-committees for laying the foundation of work for coming Lok Sabha Elections in 2009.
f. Anyone can invite Mr Arun Bhatia and a small team of friends to their housing societies for a talk on "How and why to ensure voter registrations in our housing society and in the locality". It is not an invitation for a political talk about elections. It is an invitation to call Mr Bhatia to share his views on Indian Democracy and how it works currently - and what is the change needed in it.
I the next meeting will be held on 25th May at NFAI auditorium.
Reported by Vinod Bodhankar
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