Good news and bad news..
Fellow observers of nascent efforts at reforming the political system in India might have already read about some important news from the past few days.
It is a mix of good and bad (in my view).
On the “bad” side, Gopal Krishna, one of the founders of Bharat Uday Mission (BM or Bhumi) has decided to leave the party. In his own words:
I have left Bharat Uday Mission (also known as BM or Bhumi) despite the fact that I started it all alone from zero level in my 5th semester at IIT Kanpur. The detailed reason is given in my blog and is useful for all wannabe reformers and students of human psychology…
I am very happy with all this experience of BM, because I learnt a lot about human psychology and organizational skills and understood why all parties dilute their principles with time: thanks God! all this happened before I became a fulltimer. now, I will become a fulltimer with enormous practicality and idealism both together and create an infallible organization – what can be better than this?
The greatest emperor of India, Chandragupta Maurya, and the greatest politician, Chanakya, were routed at hands of Nanda King in the first battle of their life. But, they bounced back, learnt from their tactical mistakes, routed Nanda dynastry in subsequent battle and established Maurya empire from zero level, one of the greatest empires of not only India, but the whole world.
I will also bounce back despite tasting first political defeat of my life in my very first attempt – this is firm promise to all great souls who gave their all for making Bharat a great nation and is a firm promise to my own conscience and spirit of nationalism.
If you believe in me and our cause, please pray for me. I also welcome you to give your feedback on the blog – it will be more preferable than giving feedback in email to save both’s precious time and energy.
Thanks again,
Vande Matram!
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Having said that, Gopal is optimistic. In another email to me, he wrote:
“…the news is good and heartening – this is how i perceive it. because, it liberated me from credulity and political immaturity which would have anyway killed the dreams sometime in future …now, the same dreams will be enshrined in a new, “centralized in hands of fulltimers” organ….(sometime in 2009)”.
So I guess something good might still come out of it.
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On the “good” side, Sharad Tandale of Bharat Punarnirman Dal (BPD) has been selected to the next stage of Times of India’s “Lead India” initiative.
Although I have mixed feelings about “Lead India”, I have no doubt that Sharad’s selection is great news for everyone who hopes for change and believes it can happen.
I am trying to set up an email interview with Sharad and will be posting it on my blog – hopefully soon.
Jai Hind, Jai Bharat.
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I went over two of the parties sites (BM and LP). Initially, on hearing about them and reading the news stories on LP, I was quite enthusiastic at the thought of these youngsters coming into politics. Although I do have a grouse against career politicians, it seemed like a good idea that educated youth are entering the fray.
I am truly sorry to say that on reading about them, I was quite disappointed. While LP’s site consisted of excess verbiage which actually didn’t translate to any concrete steps, the BM website didn’t even attempt to have any kind of policy or ideology description. Removing the caste system and spreading the teaching of yoga don’t actually translate into a coherent economic or education policy.
I revisited BJP’s webpage and I have to say that while the party might currently be in a morass of inactivity, its ideology seems fairly stable. Paraphrasing Dina Nath Mishra (the journalist), maybe we can still infuse a brain into this dinosaur. It might be easier to do that than evolve a dinosaur from a single cell organism.
Shantanu,
No need to feel sorry about Gopal Krishna. To me it appears to be the case of:
” Padte phal ki Aagnya(aagya)”
However, he has very conveniently passed the blame on others earning martyrdom for himself.
The problems cited by him could (would) very well recur after 2 years (2009) when he plans to start a new party.
Does he mean to say by then he will have enough maturity to handle all the psedos? Or he is sure that he’ll get all great people to work with?