peoplesgreenparty ABOUT PEOPLES GREEN PARTY (PGP) Why Peoples Green Party? Since independence, Indian rulers never followed a pro-people development path. For decades, the dynastic Indian National Congress, communal Hindutva BJP, Socialists, parliamentary Communist parties and various hues of regional and caste or religion based political formations could prove an utter failure in solving people’s grievances. Though these parties are allied in different fronts including the third one, all of them follow similar anti-people policies, selling themselves to the interests of MNCs and forces of local and global domination. As far as the people are concerned, neither food security nor job security is assured and social security is confined to organized sector only, that too watered down now. Around ninety percent of the workforce are in the unorganized sector, and are deprived of the civic rights and basic needs: food, shelter, clothing, education and healthcare. The entire land resources owned by the tribal communities have been alienated and huge tracts of land have been handed over to the MNCs and other vested interests, for tourism and commercial activities. Most of the water resources and the fertile land resources, particularly such tracts of land endowed with water bodies, are being taken away in the name of SEZs. Thus, while peasants and tribes are being deprived of lands, Dalits are not provided land for cultivation. Privatization on the lines of liberalization has only enhanced unemployment. Though some doles to the poor are held out, the overall development path followed by all political parties and alliances is anti-people and against environment. In this situation, some progressive political sections from the streams of social justice, environmental justice and socialism have joined together to provide a pro-people, eco-friendly and egalitarian political alternative to the existing political fronts broadly led by Congress, BJP and the Left. This is how Peoples Green Party (PGP) came up. SJA and PGP formation As a first step, more than hundred likeminded individuals gathered at a Social Justice Conference held at Ambedkar Bhawan, New Delhi on 24 August 2008. Social Justice Alliance (SJA) was formed here. A majority of SJA members after few months of work and serious deliberations met in a two-day convention on 21-22 February 2009 held in New Delhi and came up with a Party and its first Federal and Working Committees. The party meeting on 28 March presided over by Shri Paramjit Singh of the Party, attended and actively participated by Federal Committee members including Working Committee members, named the Party as Peoples Green Party (PGP) and elected a new leadership for a term of two years. Prof. O.K. Yadav was elected as President, S.K. Biswas as Secretary General, Paramjit Singh as Organizing Secretary, and Adv. Murtaza Hussain as Treasurer, besides 2 Vice-Presidents, 11 General Secretaries and In-charges for various Subcommittees. Peoples Green Party remained a leading member of the Social Justice Alliance. Registration of PGP with Election Commission of India For the purpose of registering PGP with Election Commission of India, its 104 members met on 27 April 2010 and resolved to go ahead with the registration process. The 104 founder members assigned this job to President Prof. O.K. Yadav, Organising Secretary Mr. Paramjit Singh, newly appointed Treasurer Mr. K.P.H. Achari (in place of Adv. Murtaza Hussain), and the new Vice-President Mr. Chaman Lal Nagar. The registration process took a long period of more than 15 months. PGP was registered in 2011, and its registration number is 56/95/2010/PPS-I. Election experience SJA along with others participated in 2008 Assembly elections in NCT Delhi; here, SJA put up its candidate in RK Puram (Sivasankaran, supported by others). In 2009 parliament elections, PGP supported two candidates: Nirmala Sharma (West Delhi, NCT Delhi) and MS Raveendran (Kottayam, Kerala). PGP was part of SDF (Secular Democratic Front which participated in 2011 Kerala assembly elections. In Piravam Assembly by-election in 2012, SDF had a PGP candidate (Krishnankutty, the then Organising Secretary of PGP Kerala State Committee). PGP as part of a Third Alternative (Teesra Vikalp) combine, of a dozen and odd political parties and social organisations, fought elections in the three Municipal Corporations in Delhi. As member of National Alternative Front, PGP put up three PGP candidates in Delhi assembly elections in 2013. Main Objectives of PGP [Excerpts from PGP Programme and Constitution] · Organize the people into a free, just, and egalitarian society. · Fight corruption till its end. · Make aware of the immense danger of global warming and adopt overall measures for sustainable and equitable development. · Stand for conservation of energy sources, and encourage the development of alternate sources such as wind, sunlight and tidal waves on a larger way. · Right of every Indian to equality of opportunity with the provision that those who have had none in the past shall have priority over those who had. Social and educational backwardness shall be the general basis for protective discrimination. · Ending land grabbing measures and projects that lead to large scale displacement of adivasis and farmers from their cultivable lands and residential areas. Preamble of PGP [Excerpt from PGP Programme and Constitution] Peoples Green Party stands for social and environmental justice, gender justice, democracy and socialism, freedom and pluralism, fraternity and equality, and federalism and secularism. Peoples Green Party stands for sustainable, pro-people, and eco-friendly model of development with an indigenous development model. Peoples Green Party opts for protective measures for the underprivileged to ensure equality. Based on lofty humanist ideals, the Party will promote measures to reduce class and caste divides. Standing for peace and transparency in governance without corruption, Peoples Green Party stands for democracy, peace and sovereignty of India, and opposes all forms of hegemony and domination. [Updated on 10 March 2014] PROGRAMME Peoples Green Party has the following Aims and Objectives: I. Peoples Green Party will work in democratic ways to: 1. Organize the people into a free, just, and egalitarian society. 2. Fight corruption till its end. 3. Make aware of the immense danger of global warming and adopt overall measures for sustainable and equitable development. 4. Stand for conservation of energy sources, and encourage the development of alternate sources such as wind, sunlight and tidal waves on a larger way. II. Peoples Green Party will strive for the following to realize the aspirations of the people of India set out in the Preamble of Indian Constitution, JUSTICE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY and FRATERNITY: 1. Responsible, transparent and sensitive governance. 2. Social and environmental justice. 3. Equality for all Indians. 4. Reducing all regional and rural-urban disparities. 5. Minimising inequality in wages and assets. 6. Treating every Indian as an end with right to individual and social development and the State as a means to that end. 7. Every Indian’s right to religious, cultural, economic and political freedom, subject to such limitation as may arise out of the protection of the right of other people or the State. 8. Right of every Indian to equality of opportunity with the provision that those who have had none in the past shall have priority over those who had. Social and educational backwardness shall be the general basis for protective discrimination. Central list for such measures shall be made applicable for all recognized metropolises of the country including the capital state of India. Economic backwardness and gender criteria of protective discrimination shall run across all social sections of Indian polity. 9. State’s obligation to make every Indian free from want and free from fear. 10. Redemption from oppression and exploitation of man by man, of caste by caste, of class by class and of nation by nation 11. Parliamentary System of Government and democratic institutions in the interest of public and in the interest of the individual, subject to needed reforms in the system to aid representation further democratic. 12. Establishing all-India judicial service, as guaranteed in Article 312 of the Constitution. III. Salient features of the Programme: 1. All landless rural families will be given viable agricultural holdings for cultivation through strict implementation of land ceiling laws. The common lands (grazing lands) will be liberated from the clutches of the land mafia and restored to the village Panchayats/State. 2. Open and common resources such as fisheries and forest resource belts to people making a living on them. 3. Equal rights and opportunities for women. 4. Universal, free and quality education for all children up to 10+2 level. 5. Better healthcare facilities for all, expanding and strengthening Public Health System. 6. Constitutional guarantee for basic human rights like right to life with dignity, right to food, right to health and sanitation, right to shelter and basic amenities, right to education, and other civil, social, economic rights, etc. 7. Inclusive development model with provision for protection of environment. 8. Withdrawal of draconian laws and steps to resolve people to people disputes through democratic means and dialogues. 9. Ending land grabbing measures and projects that lead to large scale displacement of adivasis and farmers from their cultivable lands and residential areas. 10. Social Security measures including old age pension, widow pension, special concessions to physically or otherwise challenged persons and subsistence allowance to unemployed.
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