I was not Wrong In 2009.....

When I was looking at my older mails, I came across a mail written by me to the JNM team ( Mayank Gandhi, Adolf, Praful bhai and others ) way back in Feb 2009. As lok sabha election was approaching in May 2009, Few concerned citizen (Group) are thinking of political intervention.

Let me tell you about JNM (http://www.facebook.com/JNMmumbai), It is an NGO for alternative politics. JNM have filled citizen candidate for Mumbai corporation election and has won JUHU corporation election. The concept is based on Swaraj.

Coming back to the point of political intervention in 2009 election, JNM has put an idea of making a survey. The message I got is

There are number of organizations and new political parties that want to field or support candidates for the forthcoming Lok Sabha Elections. JNM as a civil society movement would like to invite volunteers to conduct the Opinion Poll for the last day.

 Please volunteers along with your friends on Saturday, the 21st Feb, 2009 from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm, at either of the following places:

1)      Churchgate - meeting place outside Government Law College (A Road)

2)      Andheri (W) - opposite Station

 The volunteers will be divided into groups of 5, each team will be handed a placard saying:

 In the coming MP Elections who will you vote for:

Existing Political Party ( Cong / BJP / NCP / SS / MNS, etc )

OR

New Party ( Loksatta Party, PPI, Jago Party, BRSP, etc. )

OR

Citizens' Candidate ( selected by NGO/citizens groups, etc. )

The volunteer-team would carry opinion card-slips with the above matter, which people will have to fill in and put it in a tin ballot box. These boxes will be opened & counted on Sunday in front of JNM volunteers and we will declare our intent. Jai Hind

I replied to the above email you can find details here

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/juhuektaalm/message/641

My reply was

hi,
  adolf,mayank, praful
                 Practically speaking,   I can say most of the people will say 3rd option. Because there is no use of giving the 2nd option as most of the people dont know about these parties. And people will say NO to existing one. Obviously 3rd option will get majority.
THE  NEW POLITICAL PARTIES ARE NOT AS THAT OF EXISTING POLITICAL PARTIES BUT THEY ARE POLITICAL PARTY .AND IN POLITICS POLITICAL PARTIES ARE REQUIRED .
AND THESE NEW BORN PARTIES ARE TRANSPARENT AS FAR AS I KNOW AND THEY ARE READY  TO CHOOSE CANDIDATE IN THE SAME TRANSPARENT PROCESS AS JNM WANT TO DO.SO WHY NOT ASK PEOPLE IN 2ND OPTION THAT THESE POLITICAL PARTIES ARE TRANSPARENT IN SELECTION PROCESS AS PAR AS OF CITIZEN CANDIDATE.THEN PEOPLE WILL COME TO KNOW THAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE EXISTING POLITICAL PARTIES AND THESE NEW BORN PARTIES.SO PEOPLE WILL NOT GET CONFUSED .OTHERWISE TO PEOPLE 1ST AND 2ND OPTION WILL BE THE SAME.
I CAME TO ABOVE  CONCLUSION BY ASKING 25 PEOPLE .WHEN I ASKED THEM WHY NOT NEW ONE , THEY SAY ALL POLITICAL PARTIES ARE SAME. SO PLEASE THINK ON IT .
THANKS

Today in 2013, I realized that I was not wrong in basic thinking that we need political party for fighting election. Independent fighting of election is not going to serve the purpose. In todays scenario AAP and LokSatta are the only 2 parties that I think we should join and be a part of the system to change the system..