Dear Tathagat,
Just enjoyed reading your following article in yesterday’s
Mumbai Mirror :
The Parliament that was
At one place you write :
“ This made me realise that Indian democracy, as envisioned
by those who drafted our constitution, was meant to be such that every
individual was merely a representative of his or her constituency…. They
were meant to be the voice of people.. “
I believe the MPs / MLAs do not consider themselves , “
accountable / answerable “ to the people who elect them . Once elected, their
loyalty shifts to their “ Party Bosses “ because these bosses will decide
whether he will be given a ticket during the next election
If a MP / MLA know ( through enacting appropriate law ), that they
can be “ recalled “ by the voters if those voters conclude that he has “ failed
to represent their voice / failed in performing his duty to the constituency “,
then these legislators would behave very differently in the parliament
I am not saying that this is an easy / straightforward solution ,
nor do I fool myself by thinking that any MP / MLA or any political party ,
would willingly “ introduce / promote “ such a bill !
[ Ref : * ROMP : A Panacea ? ( 06 Aug 2016 ) ]
But it is heartening
that Pratham Mittal has made a beginning in this direction .
Ref : Pratham Mittal founder of Neta App - exclusive
interview, Harnessing Technology for Good Governance
https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/08/congratulations-pratham-mittal.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prathammittal/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/outgrow.co/
From video-link above, I understand that Mobile App NETA (
developed by Pratham Mittal ) has a feature to conduct “ Surveys / Exit Polls “
etc
I am marking a copy of this mail to Pratham ( p@outgrow.co ) to examine if NETA can be
modified to incorporate suggestion that I made in :
VotersWill
…………………( 03 Nov 2018 ) / https://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2018/11/voterswill.html
With regards,
Hemen Parekh
/ hcp@RecruitGuru.com
CC:
Dear Pratham Mittal,
Thoroughly enjoyed
your interview-video on Youtube , where you talked about :
Authentication /
validation ( also the fact that user’s Phone No is NOT stored )
Data gathered is
publicly available
You are NOT selling
the data
As of now, you have
no plan to “ monetize “the data being compiled
Your goal is “ to
change the way, politics is played “
Your idea is to “
develop trust and credibility “
By the political
parties , it is difficult to “ Game “ the data
Political Parties,
do not look upon you ( NETA app ), as adversaries
Yours is a small
team of 20 / 25 persons ( ave age of 26 years )
NETA has 28 million
users
NETA has a feature
to conduct “ Surveys / Exit Polls “
A user can see his “
own rating score “ for a given neta and also get to see the “ aggregate rating
“
NETA app is designed
to “ Engage the citizen with Political Parties “
NETA app provides
full information of a Candidate , such as Assets – Liabilties etc
Using NETA ,
political parties can run “ Funding Campaign “ in a fully transparent manner –
thereby eliminating the need for Electoral Bonds
Your goal is to make
NETA, a “ One Stop “ political engagement tool
This is in
continuation of my following earlier email :
pr@neta.co.in / Tue 12-Mar-19 5:26 PM
Dear Pratham Mittal,
Once again , a hearty congratulations for re-launching this app
when elections are just around the corner [ I saw the full page ad in today’s
Times of India ]
I hope ROMP will follow soon
Regards,
hemen
From: Tathagata Satpathy [mailto:tatzaudi@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2017
12:57 PM
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: IN PERPETUAL ELECTION MODE ?
Cases
against me are related to Defamation on articles/news published in my
newspapers of which I am the Editor. False or true is not relevant. All I am
saying is that even though Defamation is a Criminal offence, the cases have
nothing to do with politics.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone
On Sunday, December 17, 2017, 8:45 AM, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
Dear Tathagata ,
Glad you liked my
blog
Without doubt
, there must be many false cases like in your case
But , I
suppose getting your name cleared , must be uppermost in your mind
Somehow , in
India , for past 7 decades , DEMOCRACY
has been only equated with ELECTIONS
To know , what
kind of ELECTORAL REFORMS , we need – and urgently – You may want to read my
following blog
I have also
written many blogs on “ Information Technology impacting on Privacy “
Warm Regards,
Hemen Parekh /
Mumbai / +91 98675 50808
3P
Consultants \ Strategic Human Resources Consultants
PS :
Each of my
blogs , is sent to the Central Cabinet / NITI Aayog ( - and now , to PM –
Economy Advisory Council )
Reforming Elections and Lok Sabha [ REaL ]
Dear Shri
Narendrabhai ,
During your speech
at a rally in Kanpur recently , you spoke about issues concerning ,
* SIMULTANEOUS
ELECTIONS * POLITICAL DONATIONS * WORKING OF
LOK SABHA
In respect of
these , I have earlier sent to you ( as E Mails ) , some of my blogs
listed below each issue
Obviously ,
final solutions in respect of each issue , must necessarily emerge from a
country-wide debate among all citizens
I urge you to
get NITI Aayog to frame suitable QUESTIONNAIRES ( one for
each issue ) and invite citizens to vote ONLINE , on all government
web sites
NITI
Aayog may also want to consider conducting these ONLINE
SURVEYS , through Mobile Apps, as you recently did in respect of demonetization
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MY
BLOGS (
This is not a complete list of my E Mails sent to Cabinet Ministers ) :
" Election Reforms
" Summarized
·
Finding Candidate Information
· Presidential or coalition
Government ?
· Electoral Reforms Capsule :
A bitter pill ?
· Reforming Elections and Lok Sabha
· Constitutional Coalition Aftershocks
· EVM: as susceptible as MOM ?
· We are not bribing the Voters
!
· Model Code of ( Hypocrite
) Conduct
· Let us begin at the Beginning
!
· A Freebie that cannot
be faulted
· How will political parties
survive ?
· Simultaneous Elections : What do
you think ?
Dear
Shri Narendrabhai ,
I urge you to
initiate action on these ELECTORAL REFORMS , before people lose all
faith in the ability of our DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM to alleviate their
miseries
with regards,
hemendra
parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
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21 Dec
2016
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
From: Tathagata Satpathy
[mailto:tatzaudi@yahoo.com]
Sent: 15 December 2017 23:39
To: Hemen Parekh
Subject: Re: IN PERPETUAL ELECTION MODE ?
Dear Mr Parekh,
This is an amazing
work sheet.
Thank you for
sending this to me.
I am named in this
group of MPs and have many cases against me.
ALL and every single
one of them is a Defamation case filed by bureaucrats' family members in
connection to news published in two of my daily newspapers against government
corruption.
Yes, the future is
going to be interesting indeed.
Best wishes.
Tathagata Satpathy
MP Lok Sabha
Dhenkanal, Orissa
Sent from
Yahoo Mail for iPad
On Wednesday,
December 13, 2017, 16:16, Hemen Parekh <hcp@recruitguru.com> wrote:
From: Hemen Parekh [mailto:hcp@recruitguru.com]
Sent: 13 December 2017 16:13
To: Cabinet Ministers
Cc: ssbhalla@gmail.com;
bibek.debroy@gov.in; ashima@igidr.ac.in; rr1@nipfp.org.in; ratanp.watal@gov.in; ceo-niti@nic.in; cm@maharashtra.gov.in; cmbihar@nic.in; Indian Think
Tanks; hcp@recruitguru.com
Subject: IN PERPETUAL ELECTION MODE ?
=================
In his book
“ 1984 “ ,George Orwell imagined
the nightmare of the State surveillance of private lives of the citizens of the
World
I envisage
year 2019 as a nightmare year
for the politicians of India
Look at following
news appearing in today’s Times of India :
“ Govt to set
up 12 spl courts to try 1,581 MPs and MLAs “
Highlights :
· 228……….
Members of Parliament to be tried in two special courts
· 13,500
… Approx number of total pending cases
· 1,125
….. Number of cases that each special court will have to decide in a year
· 242……..
Number of days trial courts normally function in a year
· 4.6………
Ave number of cases per day, each special court will have to dispose off
I assume that ,
· it
will be May 2018 , by the time
these Special Courts start working – more than 4 YEARS after the
Supreme Court directed the Centre to set up these courts
· these
“ Super Efficient “ courts will refuse to grant any “ Postponement Dates “ to
the accused and not only conclude within ONE HOUR ( whether the
accused was guilty or not ) but also announce the VERDICT , on the spot (
remember , 4.6 cases / day ? )
· there
cannot be any “ Appeal “
against the judgements of these special courts
· some 365 MPs / MLAs ( out of those 1581
accused ) will be found GUILTY
· the
Speakers of the Lok Sabha / Rajya Sabha , will get court order copies within 7 days
· the
Speakers will disqualify , within 7 days ,
those MPs / MLAs who are declared guilty and who have been handed out sentences
of 5 years or more
· the
Election Commission will receive these “ Disqualification Notifications “ in 7 days
· the
Election Commission will announce re-election dates within 30 days for seats falling vacant
· these
Elections will start from Dec 2018
and stretch throughout 365 days of 2019
· to
ensure proper / timely availability of Election officers / police / EVMs /
polling booths / presiding officers / school-teachers / transport etc , spread
over 28 States , no more than ONE ELECTION will
be conducted PER DAY ( - for
each of 365 days of 2019 ! )
I had envisaged this
scenario , as far back as MAY 2014 , in :
All Seasons Are Election Seasons
https://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2014/05/all-seasons-are-election-seasons.html
2019 will be a
nightmare year , not only for the politicians but also for the voters !
But it will be a
bonanza year for :
· Newspapers
( Advt earnings )
· Outdoor
Publicity Companies ( Hoardings )
· Helicopter
Companies ( to ferry candidates / campaigners )
· Truck
Rental Companies ( to ferry voters )
· Event
Management Companies ( organizing Sabhas / Rallies )
· Printing
Presses ( printing of pamphlets / brochures / posters )….etc
Karl Marx may have
said , " Religion the is the opium of Masses "
In India , it seems , " Elections are the opium of the Masses " !
In 2019 , expect
DEMOCRACY to be working 24*365 !
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13 Dec
2017
