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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Guide to filing PIL
This is a general guide to filing Writ Petition or PIL in court.
http://commonlaw-sandeep.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-file-writ-petition-or-pil-writ.html
It was sent to me & is drafted by Sandeep Jalan of Janhit Manch.
Hope you guys find it useful.
http://commonlaw-sandeep.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-file-writ-petition-or-pil-writ.html
It was sent to me & is drafted by Sandeep Jalan of Janhit Manch.
Hope you guys find it useful.
Guide to Police Laws
This is a general guide to Indian Police Laws.
http://commonlaw-sandeep.blogspot.com/2009/04/indian-citizens-pocket-guide-to-police.html
It was sent to me & is drafted by Sandeep Jalan of Janhit Manch.
Hope you guys find it useful.
http://commonlaw-sandeep.blogspot.com/2009/04/indian-citizens-pocket-guide-to-police.html
It was sent to me & is drafted by Sandeep Jalan of Janhit Manch.
Hope you guys find it useful.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
DEVELOPMENTS: ON GROUND EVENTS (APRIL 2009)
ON GROUND EVENT : 1
Debates are being organised between LS candidates, which will be telecast on Sahara Samay from Tuesday onwards. There will be 6 debates held between the major party's candidates from each of Mumbai's constituency. An expert panel will try and put forth an array of 10 subjects which have been shortlisted. This will give us an opportunity to understand how our representatives plan to solve our problems.Also the exercise involves taking commitments from the candidates, wherein they say what promises they intend to deliver upon if elected into power. They also commit to come back post 6 months, for a performance evaluation.
In culmination of these telecasts, on the 26th of April, an open meeting will be held (at Juhu, opposite Hotel Tulip Star@6pm) with the party leaders of these MPs. A similar exercise will be conducted, and they will also be asked for their commitments. It will also involve an exercise wherein ppl will be allowed to submit their own questions and then those questions (after bundling similar questions together) will be directly put forth to these political leaders.
The event is being organised by : JNM, GoG, CTC in association with TOI's Lead India Campaign. The final event will be televised by Sahara Samay & will also be covered by most of the print press media.
If anyone is interested in volunteering for the following events, please feel free to contact me or Jatin.
ON GROUND EVENT : 2
Workshop to mobilize and train citizen volunteers to conduct door-to-door drives in their community / polling booth regions. Following is the plan for Mumbai:
1. We are targeting to mobilize 500+ citizen volunteers across Mumbai city to spend one day prior to polling day (Apr 30) in their community urging their neighbours to go out and vote, giving them their polling booth address and asking them to make an informed choice. We are calling them as Booth Level Volunteers (BLVs). This is similar to Booth Level Agents (BLAs) that political parties deploy for door-to-door campaigning, which is known as the most effective method to get-out-the-vote
2. We will be organizing 4 ground orientation sessions for these BLVs to train them on how to do these drives properly, and also arm them with flyers & adequate information. These are being organized with the support of AGNI. The schedule and locations of these sessions are mentioned in the attachment.
Ground Orientation Sessions for Booth Level Volunteers at Mumbai : (You dont need to contact anyone, just show up at the centre nearest you and enroll)
21st April 2009 - 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. St Anne's High School Hall, C/o Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Marve Road, Malad West Mumbai 400 064.
22nd April 2009 - 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. Salvation HallPortuguese ChurchDadar [W]Mumbai 400 028
24th April 2009 - 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.Lake Castle PodiumBehind Lake Castle BuildingCliff Avenue, Near Reliance WorldHiranandani Garden ComplexPowaiMumbai 400 076
25th April 2009 - 6.00 to 8.00 p.m. Mount Carmel HallNext to St Aloysius School, Opp Leelavati Hospital, Bandra ReclamationMumbai 400 050
Organisers : Janaagraha & GoG
Debates are being organised between LS candidates, which will be telecast on Sahara Samay from Tuesday onwards. There will be 6 debates held between the major party's candidates from each of Mumbai's constituency. An expert panel will try and put forth an array of 10 subjects which have been shortlisted. This will give us an opportunity to understand how our representatives plan to solve our problems.Also the exercise involves taking commitments from the candidates, wherein they say what promises they intend to deliver upon if elected into power. They also commit to come back post 6 months, for a performance evaluation.
In culmination of these telecasts, on the 26th of April, an open meeting will be held (at Juhu, opposite Hotel Tulip Star@6pm) with the party leaders of these MPs. A similar exercise will be conducted, and they will also be asked for their commitments. It will also involve an exercise wherein ppl will be allowed to submit their own questions and then those questions (after bundling similar questions together) will be directly put forth to these political leaders.
The event is being organised by : JNM, GoG, CTC in association with TOI's Lead India Campaign. The final event will be televised by Sahara Samay & will also be covered by most of the print press media.
If anyone is interested in volunteering for the following events, please feel free to contact me or Jatin.
ON GROUND EVENT : 2
Workshop to mobilize and train citizen volunteers to conduct door-to-door drives in their community / polling booth regions. Following is the plan for Mumbai:
1. We are targeting to mobilize 500+ citizen volunteers across Mumbai city to spend one day prior to polling day (Apr 30) in their community urging their neighbours to go out and vote, giving them their polling booth address and asking them to make an informed choice. We are calling them as Booth Level Volunteers (BLVs). This is similar to Booth Level Agents (BLAs) that political parties deploy for door-to-door campaigning, which is known as the most effective method to get-out-the-vote
2. We will be organizing 4 ground orientation sessions for these BLVs to train them on how to do these drives properly, and also arm them with flyers & adequate information. These are being organized with the support of AGNI. The schedule and locations of these sessions are mentioned in the attachment.
Ground Orientation Sessions for Booth Level Volunteers at Mumbai : (You dont need to contact anyone, just show up at the centre nearest you and enroll)
21st April 2009 - 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. St Anne's High School Hall, C/o Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Marve Road, Malad West Mumbai 400 064.
22nd April 2009 - 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m. Salvation HallPortuguese ChurchDadar [W]Mumbai 400 028
24th April 2009 - 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.Lake Castle PodiumBehind Lake Castle BuildingCliff Avenue, Near Reliance WorldHiranandani Garden ComplexPowaiMumbai 400 076
25th April 2009 - 6.00 to 8.00 p.m. Mount Carmel HallNext to St Aloysius School, Opp Leelavati Hospital, Bandra ReclamationMumbai 400 050
Organisers : Janaagraha & GoG
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Meeting with Loksatta Party
Hi ppl,
Had been to the meeting today to the Loksatta Party office. Unfortunately hardly anyone was around & nobody from our side showed up as well!!! Trupti, you certainly should have met these guys.. they were a lot on your wavelength.
Anyways the meeting was ok but honestly I had mixed feelings about them.
I met three of the people from their Mumbai core group. A Mr. Surendra (ex-president GE Shipping) gave me the basic input abt the party, along with Mr. Anant Shinde (Lawyer by profession).
Essentially they are a Hyderabad based NGO started in 1996. You can get the exact figures/details and history & the details of their leader jayprakash Narayan from their website : www.loksatta.org. They are politically active there (since 2006) and claim to have some major support there. (My wife is in Hyderabad right now and I have asked her to check up with the people she encounters if this is true, pls do your credibility checks by all means possible). They started here some 4 years ago and their intention was to build a grass roots movement, since that is how the organisation started. They take credit for the Jago-Re campaign. They were also apparently the major force behind Adolf D'souza being elected from the Juhu Municipal constituency etc.. (I think I did read his name on one of their comitees as well.)
Coming to the point they seemed quiet well organised & have a fairly decent idea of where and how they are going to go about it. Considering that they decided on the idea of going to the polls only post 26/11, they did seem to have done a considerable bit from then. They were observers at the recent US elections & they will be having some 20 election campaign managers from Obama's campaign (promised by some NGO).
The have a basic four pronged agenda to change the present political system, they have several projects campainging against various small and big causes as well. The crux of their ideology is democracy & decentralization of power. eg: candidates are elected & not selected, inidvidual made responsible for city, city wards having own self goverenece system/allocations etc... Anant was pretty open and has invited all of us who are interested to come to their office next Saturday between 3-5pm, so we can discuss and share our views.
Now for the negative part. Their decesion making process seems to be a bit leaning towards Hyderabad. Although they advocate a democratic system of decesion making, honestly I could see a heiarchy in decesion making coming down from Hyderabad. Maybe this is becoz they still dont have numbers here, but this is the feeling I got.
Also Surendra was a lil inflexible in his views & he seems to have walled himself to what is being preached by the party founder..JP Narayan. I maybe wrong at this, but this is the gist I got.Also as is typical in any group situation, the most voiciferous person around is the person voicing opinions and this was very true in this case. Often Surendra ended up overirding points & conversations that were being made between the others. Later Anant explained that this was becoz he was passionate abt the cause & had quit his job to persue it, etc..Lastly they dont seem to be prepared to approach other groups/partys to join them or to join other groups/partys. This was made very clear when I asked them why they could not approach the PPI to join them or vice versa.. infact I think that one word "PPI" managed to rouse a lot of emotion in Surendra in particular.
I think we need to check out what the other party's are doing as well & how they plan to go about it. It would be unwise to draw a decesion at this stage as to where we can align ourselves. I would suggest some of us go visit the other partys during the next few days. Also lets try and meet the Loksatta party nxt saturday and then decide.
Honestly though, now that so many educated people are coming out, it seems to be such a waste that our vote is again going to be split between all these new parties. I honestly hope for once we can give up on our egos and self motives and join together to fight the present political system as a single entity.
Akshay.
Had been to the meeting today to the Loksatta Party office. Unfortunately hardly anyone was around & nobody from our side showed up as well!!! Trupti, you certainly should have met these guys.. they were a lot on your wavelength.
Anyways the meeting was ok but honestly I had mixed feelings about them.
I met three of the people from their Mumbai core group. A Mr. Surendra (ex-president GE Shipping) gave me the basic input abt the party, along with Mr. Anant Shinde (Lawyer by profession).
Essentially they are a Hyderabad based NGO started in 1996. You can get the exact figures/details and history & the details of their leader jayprakash Narayan from their website : www.loksatta.org. They are politically active there (since 2006) and claim to have some major support there. (My wife is in Hyderabad right now and I have asked her to check up with the people she encounters if this is true, pls do your credibility checks by all means possible). They started here some 4 years ago and their intention was to build a grass roots movement, since that is how the organisation started. They take credit for the Jago-Re campaign. They were also apparently the major force behind Adolf D'souza being elected from the Juhu Municipal constituency etc.. (I think I did read his name on one of their comitees as well.)
Coming to the point they seemed quiet well organised & have a fairly decent idea of where and how they are going to go about it. Considering that they decided on the idea of going to the polls only post 26/11, they did seem to have done a considerable bit from then. They were observers at the recent US elections & they will be having some 20 election campaign managers from Obama's campaign (promised by some NGO).
The have a basic four pronged agenda to change the present political system, they have several projects campainging against various small and big causes as well. The crux of their ideology is democracy & decentralization of power. eg: candidates are elected & not selected, inidvidual made responsible for city, city wards having own self goverenece system/allocations etc... Anant was pretty open and has invited all of us who are interested to come to their office next Saturday between 3-5pm, so we can discuss and share our views.
Now for the negative part. Their decesion making process seems to be a bit leaning towards Hyderabad. Although they advocate a democratic system of decesion making, honestly I could see a heiarchy in decesion making coming down from Hyderabad. Maybe this is becoz they still dont have numbers here, but this is the feeling I got.
Also Surendra was a lil inflexible in his views & he seems to have walled himself to what is being preached by the party founder..JP Narayan. I maybe wrong at this, but this is the gist I got.Also as is typical in any group situation, the most voiciferous person around is the person voicing opinions and this was very true in this case. Often Surendra ended up overirding points & conversations that were being made between the others. Later Anant explained that this was becoz he was passionate abt the cause & had quit his job to persue it, etc..Lastly they dont seem to be prepared to approach other groups/partys to join them or to join other groups/partys. This was made very clear when I asked them why they could not approach the PPI to join them or vice versa.. infact I think that one word "PPI" managed to rouse a lot of emotion in Surendra in particular.
I think we need to check out what the other party's are doing as well & how they plan to go about it. It would be unwise to draw a decesion at this stage as to where we can align ourselves. I would suggest some of us go visit the other partys during the next few days. Also lets try and meet the Loksatta party nxt saturday and then decide.
Honestly though, now that so many educated people are coming out, it seems to be such a waste that our vote is again going to be split between all these new parties. I honestly hope for once we can give up on our egos and self motives and join together to fight the present political system as a single entity.
Akshay.
Friday, December 26, 2008
26th Dec 2008
Share your experiences about 26-12 meeting at gateway today.
Please share your experiences and how we can move forward.
Please share your experiences and how we can move forward.
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