I am happy that I could at all make it to this meet.
It was jammed packed with people standing, gentlemen getting up to give
seats to ladies et al.
Two un-mistakable Santa Clauses were perched on the bar counter at the rear,
side by side. Dillip Borkar and yours sincerely.
Arvind Kejriwal, a very young dynamite took me all by surprise. Well
informed, excellent speaker, gave a rundown on how the self-governing system
of Panchayat and Municipal Councils should work. He clearly said that what
we have in India is not democracy at all. According to him democracy starts
with gram sabhas taking final decisions on what should be and what they
want. He related a story of a Maharaja in the olden days where his highness
was asked to vacate the Palace, to be handed over to the new gram sabha
sponsored leader, a woman who accepted the leadership on the condition that
she got the palace. That the Maharaj had to vacate and become the non-entity
through the dictat of the people.
Ms. Swati ( I have not been able to get her first name) was equally a
fire-brand speaker. She talked about how in Delhi, the big-wig politicians
and the High Handed Police Commissioners are being brought down to their
knees by the ordinary people of the municipal wards through the local gram
sabha ( a different name) meets. He had to cut short her delivery because of
paucity of time and I am sorry she had to.
In all, what they talked about is what I have said in my article " PEOPLE'
PANEL SYSTEM TO FIGHT PANCHAYAT AND MUNICIPAL ELECTION"
I have taken the opportunity to CONGRATULATE Arvind Kejriwal and Ms. Swati
when I spoke saying that they have injected some new energetic blood in the
people of GOA, who are mostly resistant to CHANGE. Why? Because there are no
abject poor in Goa and the haves are too lethargic to change the system. I
have also taken the opportunity to tell Arvind that if possible he should
liaise with Goa's Soter D'Souza of Panchayat Raj System so that Goa
Panchayat Raj act may be hugely amended to remove any and all powers from
the Sarpanch and the Secretary and to make the Gram Sabhas the POWER CENTRE
to decide what they want and what they do not want.
In Arvind's own words, The people will fight and fight but what comes out
will never be something bad. It will always be everything good. He gave an
example of a person or persons wanting a wine shop in the village as it was
too much trouble to get a bottle when required. When this question was
raised at the Gram Sabha, even the people who drink and wanted the wine shop
badly in the vicinity, declared that they did not want one, only because in
private they drank but in public they were the saints.
An last but not the least, I spoke about the PPS [People for Political
Sanity] because Arvind himself, on many occasions, said that the power to
the gram sabhas is real politics. I have publicly gifted to Arvind the
Su-Raj Party's expanded Presentation file along with the PPS FAQ.
Hopefully Arvind will go thro' it and get in touch with me for future
discourse.
PS: I have spotted most of Goa's activists, including Judith Almeida who
also spoke during the interaction.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org for expanded Party Presentation on the Home Page under
Announcements
http://www.goasu-raj.org/gen/articles/70.asp The article on Panel System
for grass-root bodies Elections.
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It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST citizens contest elections.
It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST citizen voters elect good, honest
representatives.
GOA urgently needs 'GOOD, HONEST, DISCIPLINED SYSTEM of GOVERNANCE'.
Wherein, even a dishonest person is forced to be good, honest n disciplined,
or to QUIT.
Only through PPS can such 'good, honest n disciplined system of governance'
be identified and accepted.
PPS GOA =PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY = PEOPLE'S POWER SYSTEM
for a date in 2012
Display the 'PPS' sticker on your vehicle today, to reject political madness
tomorrow.
