Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Dr. JP advocates proportional Representation


Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan has said that the best and the brightest will not be able to enter politics so long as the first-past-the post electoral system prevails in India. As of now, people are voting for the second worst candidate in a bid to defeat the first worst candidate and not for those who will make a difference in their lives.

Addressing a gathering of NRIs in Chicago as part of his ‘Rejuvenate India through citizen-centric politics’ organized by People for Lok Satta, Dr. JP said that nowhere in the world candidates and political parties spent crores of rupees of personal money to get elected to the legislatures. It was because a vote more spelt victory and a vote less meant defeat. Only when the country switched over to a proportional representation system, the importance of marginal vote would go.

Dr. JP recalled that people often asked him why the Lok Satta had not made any electoral impact and said that he would plead guilty if they deemed his provision of an alternative, political platform or the promise of ethical and clean politics a crime or a sin.

Dr. JP maintained he was not concerned whether the Lok Satta won or lost. His only concern was that Team India should win. India had the resources and technologies to grow at a fast pace and become the second largest economy in the world by 2039, next only to China and overtaking the U. S.

He underlined the need for educational reforms under which every child irrespective of its accident of birth in a certain caste or community could realize its true potential. He pointed out that the education system in the public sector in India had collapsed. Unless we focus on quality education right from the primary stage, India will lag behind other countries just as it missed the industrial revolution.

Dr. JP paid rich tributes to NRIs in the U. S. who have demonstrated India’s intellectual prowess braving a hostile environment. He was also full of praise for the Indian Consulate in Chicago for its services and said there was no reason why Government offices in India could not function equally effectively.

Mr. Vijayanad, a software engineer who quit his job in the U. S. to take up social service, said that the Lok Satta has units in five States of India. He is the president of the Tamil Nadu unit.

Mr. Jampala Chowdary welcomed the gathering and introduced Dr. JP.

2 comments:

  1. Dear Friends,
    A few handful of Telanganites attended his mollified fund raising event in Chicago last Saturday, May 15, at 6pm insde Aurora Balaji Temple.

    And we have successfully irritated him very much and so called his great intellectual didn't work out well. Srinivas Voruganti did extremely good job.

    After his slapped experience in WashingtonDC from Telanganites - they changed Q&A process in Chicago. They collected all questions first and successfully filtered away all Telangana related topics. We pounded them with many diligent questions, so some of them got picked up any way and clearly made him irritated on a couple particularly... he tumbled on those and struggled through the topics and questions:

    Q1: Why he is trying to paint a soft image and creating impossible fictitious dreams? His approach and rejuvenation process may take 100~500 year to bring a change... People in Telangana agitation has the same reasons of corruption that he is pretending to fight? Why is he missing a great opportunity to support people's desire in Telangana?

    (He never read the question to the audience and skipped the entire Telangana part and stretched too long on rejuvenation process.... all BS)

    Q2: Politicians are the same across the world. Similar to other parties, Monarch of Loksatta is JP - why is that?

    (He spoke too long but didn't answer even a small piece of this question)

    Q3: Many Bureaucrats in India have been performing very well and he had a great opportunity to revolutionize. Why did he miss that path?
    (The following sub-question really irritated him)

    Q3b: When T.N. Sheshan could revolutionize electoral system - why couldn't he do it?
    (He got angry and responded with an arrogant statement - "T.N.Shesan did nothing", he just followed the rules)
    (We laughed so much at him - why couldn't he follow the same rules as bureaucrat?)

    Q4: Why didn't he contest from any other place than Kukatpally?
    (He said, "I didn't do anything in Kukatpally to win") basically skipped.

    Q5: He announced that 4 nights ago he spent time with his close friend in Pentecost, Maryland - who spent 25Crore to contest assembly election in India. Why does he claim fraudulent people as close friends? Why is it hard to denounce them?
    (Never picked this question - but I saw him read and put it aside because I sent it on a colored paper)

    He couldn't answer any of these questions righteously - he is all crap. Just creates hype - he is not an example of what he is trying to see others changed. JP should change himself first.

    Jai Telangana Jai Jai Telangana

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  2. Dear Friends,
    A few handful of Telanganites attended his mollified fund raising event in Chicago last Saturday, May 15, at 6pm insde Aurora Balaji Temple.

    And we have successfully irritated him very much and so called his great intellectual didn't work out well. Srinivas Voruganti did extremely good job.

    After his slapped experience in WashingtonDC from Telanganites - they changed Q&A process in Chicago. They collected all questions first and successfully filtered away all Telangana related topics. We pounded them with many diligent questions, so some of them got picked up any way and clearly made him irritated on a couple particularly... he tumbled on those and struggled through the topics and questions:

    Q1: Why he is trying to paint a soft image and creating impossible fictitious dreams? His approach and rejuvenation process may take 100~500 year to bring a change... People in Telangana agitation has the same reasons of corruption that he is pretending to fight? Why is he missing a great opportunity to support people's desire in Telangana?

    (He never read the question to the audience and skipped the entire Telangana part and stretched too long on rejuvenation process.... all BS)

    Q2: Politicians are the same across the world. Similar to other parties, Monarch of Loksatta is JP - why is that?

    (He spoke too long but didn't answer even a small piece of this question)

    Q3: Many Bureaucrats in India have been performing very well and he had a great opportunity to revolutionize. Why did he miss that path?
    (The following sub-question really irritated him)

    Q3b: When T.N. Sheshan could revolutionize electoral system - why couldn't he do it?
    (He got angry and responded with an arrogant statement - "T.N.Shesan did nothing", he just followed the rules)
    (We laughed so much at him - why couldn't he follow the same rules as bureaucrat?)

    Q4: Why didn't he contest from any other place than Kukatpally?
    (He said, "I didn't do anything in Kukatpally to win") basically skipped.

    Q5: He announced that 4 nights ago he spent time with his close friend in Pentecost, Maryland - who spent 25Crore to contest assembly election in India. Why does he claim fraudulent people as close friends? Why is it hard to denounce them?
    (Never picked this question - but I saw him read and put it aside because I sent it on a colored paper)

    He couldn't answer any of these questions righteously - he is all crap. Just creates hype - he is not an example of what he is trying to see others changed. JP should change himself first.

    Jai Telangana Jai Jai Telangana

    ReplyDelete