A Vote of Thanks: Jago Bhopal Blogger Symposium 2008

Thank you all for making this event the most successful one I have ever organized in my life. You will laugh at this statement but this is the truth.

These four responses to my words from people I don't even know, I haven't even met, are more precious to me than those from people I know. It fills you with pride that such people are there in our society who are ready to listen to strangers, it fills you with responsibility that people are listening to you, watching you, talking to you.

Since this was an unadvertised (and random) event by an unknown representative of an unknown party , I was hoping for just one response this year to continue this mission, but got four instead. Apart from the above, it also signifies that how grim the situation is, how fed people are with the system, how they are willing to change it, even run it. It hurts all of us that our country is not going in the right direction and we are unable to do anything about it. As said in 'A Wednesday', we are a part of this rot not by choice but by force.

I want to stress again the point that this problem stemmed from democracy and democracy alone can solve it. The secret ballot is the most powerful weapon in this war, nobody can tell whom have you voted, that's a power par excellence.

The main problem today however is the Crisis of Leadership, we don't have right people at the right places, I think most our problems will be solved if we can ensure this. For this people, the common citizens have to come forward to contest elections and participate actively in our polity. Nobody has probed the pulse of the citizens, Jago Party can and should be that platform, why should people be afraid or ashamed of doing something right.

The job that requires the least qualifications but has maximum impact on our lives has no takers of good people, why do we fear this job, we just have to order the bureaucracy and the government machinery that people want this get this done. They have to do it, its their job to do it and the job of people's representatives is to ensure and supervise this work and change the leaders of the teams if found inefficient. Is it a very hard job? Why don't people come forward to accept this simple fact and their responsibilities?

These four people are thus worthy of respect and a hearty thanks, because they came forward when nobody else did.

Leaving you with this video hoping that you may awaken (pay attention to what Gehlot has to say):



Do you remember the lines,
Shame on you if you fool me once,
Shame on me if you fool me twice!

Keep thinking over these lines, think about what's going wrong,

Jai Hind.

Latent Dissent.

WELCOME JAGO PARTY ON WIKIPEDIA

TO ALL FRIENDS,
CONGRATULATIONS!

JAGO PARTY HAS BEEN ENTERED IN WIKIPEDIA TODAY! CLICK HERE!

BUT IT REQUIRES YOUR SUPPORT OTHERWISE IT WILL BE DELETED BY SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T UNDERSTAND OUR MISSION, OR SIMPLY DOESN'T LIKE THE WAY ENTRIES HAVE BEEN MADE IN IT!

IT'S YOUR TURN TO PROTECT THE NAME OF JAGO PARTY!

SINCERELY,
LATENT DISSENT.

JAGO PARTY HINDI WEBSITE

The Translation work of main sections of the website www.jago.in has been completed. The links of various pages have been put up in the Jago Party's Bhopal Chapter blog (website) in the same order as they are on the main website.

Although I am not perfectly sure about the accuracy of the translation, it will certainly overcome the language barrier to some extent, till the official hindi website is launched.

Hoping that this work would prove beneficial in the days to come.

Sincerely,
Latent Dissent.


[P.S. जागो पार्टी हिन्दी वेबसाइट IF YOU CAN READ THIS TEXT CORRECTLY DON'T BOTHER OTHERWISE USE THIS HELP TO INSTALL HINDI FONTS ON YOUR COMPUTER]

WHO AM I & WHY AM I HIDING MY IDENTITY?

I am an ordinary man like who felt enough is enough after the Mumbai Terror Attacks, thought of working to clean the dirt in our country and its systems. I felt that in Democracy Politics is the thing that controls and is capable of making far reaching changes.

For this I thought of forming a new political party with like minded people, I searched the net to know whether someone has already initiated the mission of rebuilding our nation, I came to know about Jago Party, became an active member that very moment. I didn’t want to dissipate my anger to different places and disrespect myself. I didn’t want to fight battles on TV but a war in reality, once and for all.

This is the context where my real identity subsided and I became Latent Dissent, how and why I came to this decision read ahead

If I tell you that I am from Bhopal, am 25 years old and support liberalism you would focus on my words and ideas, but if I add to that my name you would consider my views in the context of my religion and caste, adding occupation would further complicate the picture, I want to talk to you on the condition of our country not myself, that’s the first reason.

The second reason is that, the moment you talk of joining politics to make a change, people start imagining you as a selfish person who wants to fulfill his personal ambitions through politics, there is nothing wrong in the attitude, even I am skeptic of anyone who shows such inclinations, the reason is we have been cheated emotionally so many times by our politicians that we don’t want any further responsibilities of creating yet another scoundrel.

I further accept that I am no expert in the field, but my intentions are very clear on the issue, much better than many experts of this field. I want to change my country for good, I am doing, I am trying my best, THE TURN IS YOURS !

THANKYOU !

RURAL-URBAN DEBATE ON JAGO PARTY:

I recently read someone discussing building up Jago Party from the ‘grassroots’ that is rural areas, he gave some plan for gram, janpad, zila level working of the party. Respecting his effort on the issue, I beg to differ on this issue.

First taking a look at the history of various political parties, we can say that almost all of them originated from urban centers. Leave apart that, even Jago Party is basically an urban party and being one its core strength is in urban youth.

We all know that all wars are fought and won based on Core Strength, if one’s core strength is powerful and surprising enough the other party looses. People think that since the rural India forms about 65-70 percent of population whatever they do, it will not affect the voters in rural areas. This is a wrong way of looking at it; we are missing the point by diverting attention to an unrelated issue.If rural population is 70 percent then 30 percent is urban. Agree, now the 30 percent comprise of 5 percent high income, 5 percent high-mid income, 5 percent low-mid income and rest 15 low income. I have chosen income because urban areas don’t have the barriers of Caste that strong. So, I am talking to the top 10 percent category now, naturally you might be using services of the lower 10 percent category in the form of domestic helps, dhobis, electricians, plumbers, etc. Even at work place you may have an interaction with them.

The next time you pass you baais or dhobis, just ask them ‘to which place they belong? And are they in touch with the place?’, urban places are made up from a migrated population, all of its residents have their roots somewhere in the rural India.(ask your parents). You will be surprised to know that not only are they well connected to their places, there is a constant exchange of information going on between them, the issues of urban India are reported and the condition and issues of rural India be reported back

This interaction can swing the real public opinion of India in very less time as it now uses mobile phones; watches satellite DTH TV, unlike yesteryears. They also learn from you and me, if you have a large shelf of books in your house they start spending more on their children’s education, if you have computer they start sending them to computer classes. As I’ve said elsewhere we must not see and treat them as passive creatures, they are seeing, listening, and emulating our behavior. They too think on the political issues like you and me and rely on somebody else to choose for them the right party, which more often than not is the village elder-man like our family heads.

Coming back to our topic, if we are able to influence even 10 percent of urban India take it from me more than 20 percent of rural India would be aware of our activities. Also (though sadly) the media attention is more in urban centers so your meager 10 percent efforts too will not go unnoticed. So we must focus on our strengths, what we are good at doing, not trying something new initially, when we are confident about the foundation then only can we build up a structure.