Mayank has given a very clear vision to make the CITIZEN'S AGENDA as the HERO and not persons, candidates, parties or brands. Visibility and assimilation of above AGENDA is more important than all other issues, this is our JNM thought at present. If this is focused on all doubts on our activities get clarified.
However, we at JNM accept that there are many other ways to go about presenting issues. We encourage other persons (who feel they have other methods), to go forth and implement such other methods in their own way, by organizing other such 'meets'. More the merrier. JNM is doing what it is good at and what it feels is critical at this juncture of India's development. We welcome other initiatives with out being disruptive or overly critical of them. Best wishes. 2009/4/20 Mayank Gandhi <[email protected]> > Dear friends, > > We believe in equidistance from all political players, because we believe > that changing players is not the solution, but changing the rules of the > game is. Therefore systemic reforms is the only way ahead. We tilt towards > no-body, we stand erect with our spine straight :-) > > While as an organization, we do not judge people and parties, we are > completely against the political culture of violence, divisiveness - > religion, linguistic, regional, caste, rich-vs-poor, middle class-vs-poor, > English-vs-non english etc. We are also against the public behavior of > sycophancy, one-upmanship, turfwar, pettiness, vindictiveness, viciousness > and opportunistic alliances. > > In the present elections, we want to project the citizen "Reforms and > development agenda" as the hero. And therefore, we are trying to utilize the > Loksabha elections as a lever to push forward the agenda in the > consciousness of decision makers and the general public. > > Therefore we have decided to have meet your candidate debates (khulla > manch) on Sahara Samay Mumbai TV (viewership 30 lakhs) daily telecast > begining Tuesday to Sunday, the 21st (three hours-a-day) - followed by > a major public meeting on the 26th with party presidents of major relevant > political parties. > > All these meetings have been designed keeping the following in mind > 1. We would neither promote or run down parties or their candidates - its > not about individuals nor parties, but the citizen agenda and empowerment. > 2. Within the limitation of time (45-50 minutes), we need to get the > maximum number of agenda points - in the first debate, even tho' we had just > milind and mohan rawle - we were able to get through only five issues- > police reforms, RTI, directly elected empowered Mayor, Housing and public > transportation. > 3. Therefore it is imperative to keep debaters down to two or three so that > more of the agenda gets discussed and aired in the limited air time. > 4. To decide on calling the political participants, we have left it to the > Sahara Samay journalists to decide and call with the following criteria - > Should be from among the national / regional parties or should be powerful > enough to be considered. For South, we had suggested Milind, Mohan rawle, > Meera and Mona shah - but had to change at the last moment as Sahara Samay > had a two camera set up only in IMC and therefore wanted only two candidates > - therefore we went with milind and rawle. In hindsight, it was good as 5 > agendas got discussed - with four on the stage - it might have been lesser. > > Actually, election times are very interesting with various opinions and > allegation flying around and strange passions unleashed :-). > > > -- > Love > > Mayank > 09920788909 > -- Praful Vora Volunteer & Convener, JNM 900 401 7654 Please visit my blog: http://ThinkUnderstandAcceptAdapt.blogspot.com *Please visit JNM link: http://jagrutnagrik.com * *YahooGroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jagrutnagrik/* Message and Attachments checked free of virus and worms with McAfeeVirusScanEnterprise v8.0.0 Auto Update.
