Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta . paid-Economic-Times newspaper prints an article on Right to Recall. . paid-economics-times prints an article in favor of Right to Recall. The article is written by well know theatre artist Alyque Padamse. Alyque Padamse had played role of Jinha in the movie Gandhi. . Now why is ToI print an article in favor of RTR? It looks like ToI is preparing to create a mass-movement on RTR by staging AK as its leader to ensure that a useless RTR-law- draft gets printed. . ===== start of article ==== . for link, pls see tinyurl EcoTimesRTR . Maharashtra polls: Right to recall will make them accountable . By Alyque Padamse . What the assembly polls means to most Bombaywallahs? Basically, I must say that my interest in the assembly elections is low. Ive realised that these people are going to form the new government. . I will, of course, vote as I have done in every election since I was 18 years old. I am very interested in Independents. Because Ive realised party lines dont give you any elbow room. Independents, at least, have their own point of view. . However, once the person is a member of the Congress, BJP or Shiv Sena, we know what they are going to do. I dont like or subscribe to any of the party programmes. I find that they are all self-serving and they make big promises but fall very short on delivery. Its a kind of hoodwinking the public. Politicians in India have no shame. . Politicians elsewhere do - in the US, for instance - though its due to the public. We, on the other hand, have no civic sense. As long as our own lives are not interfered with, we continue to say oh well, too bad, they are horrible people and we complain to our friends. We never complain to the actual people who are destroying the very fabric of our lives. For instance, the BMC which has been run, as far as I know, by the Sena for years and years, I have always said we should privatise as many things we can; privatise the BMC. . In many American cities, the services are privatised and if they dont give you good service you can go to court and have them put in place. The other thing I find missing here is that theres no sense of political recall. I think that is something that makes people feel that voting is a waste of time and that anyone or any party you vote for is going to be the same old thing and they are only interested in grabbing land. I think that is something that makes people feel that voting is a waste of time and that anyone or any party you vote for is going to be the same old thing and they are only interested in grabbing land. . They just want five years. I believe that anyone running for elections, assembly or national, should be forced to put down their promises to the public before a judge and after one year there should be stock-taking. Politicians feel accountability is promises. . Thats whats wrong with our democracy. Accountability is, in fact, action. In most well run countries people in public offices are forced to deliver and if they fail to deliver on their promises they are thrown out of office. The Right to Recall is a simple mechanism to keep politicians on their toes. Its time we had a better system for accountability. ==== end of article ===== . ToI has always refused to take my paid-advertisement on RTR. Then why all of a sudden, paid-ToI is taking article on RTR? . economictimes.indiatimes/opinion/comments-analysis/maharashtra-polls-right-to-recall-will-make-them-accountable/articleshow/43959421.cms?intenttarget=no I will write in my next post
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 02:56:15 +0000
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