301.013B : Virus works in team of one : With 4 hrs a week, YOU can help Right to Recall cause (17-Dec-2011) No.039

December 17, 2011

301.013B : Virus works in team of one : With 4 hrs a week, YOU can help Right to Recall cause

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13.13    List-3 activities

The List-3 activities are for those who want to contest election on RTR plank.

The List-3 activities is also for those who are willing to live a life worse than Batukeshwar Dutt and also willing to face a death more sad that Batukeshwar Dutt. Pls google on “Batukeshwar Dutt” and get more information on him. Who was Batukeshwar Dutt? In case you asked this question, then that partly answers second question “how sad his life and death were?”.

From what I had read in 1988, remember and later found on net, Dutt was born in 1910 and he finished his metric from P.P.N. High School in Kanpur. Back then finishing metric was sufficient to get a well paying job. But Dutt decided to join freedom movement. Dutt was the colleague of Bhagat Singh. They both threw bomb in Assembly in 1929, for which he could have been hanged. But he was not hanged, but instead imprisoned for life because no motive to kill anyone was found in the bombing case. Bhagat was sentenced for death for killing Sanders. Dutt was also tried for killing Sanders, but Dutt was not involved and so not sentenced for this action. Dutt was sent to Kala Paani. He got infected with tuberculosis and was released in 1940. He then participated in Quit India movement and was sentenced for prison for 3 years. After freedom, he got married. Despite high school education, which back then, was sufficient to get a well paying office job, Dutt had to earn living by selling vegetables !! In 1964, he passed away in near anonymity.

Now a novice reader may ask “Well, this cant be true, because Dutt must have been getting Freedom Fighter pension”. Well, Freedom Fighter pension scheme did not start till 1971 and Dutt had passed away in 1964. Why did the scheme start so late? Many Freedom Fighter had lost physically health, mental health, property and some and even become handicapped. But Nehru and Sardar Patel refused to give them any pension to freedom fighters. Because if pension were give to them, then they would have felt economically safer, plunged into politics and could have cut Congress votes. So freedom fighters got no pension at all, till 1971.

Dutt was not honored at all during his lifetime because giving him honor and publicity could have given him platform in politics which would have cut the influence of the then leaders. So all the then leaders must have strongly discouraged mediamen from giving publicity to Dutt. He was not praised much in media till he died, because if he had been praised, then a question that “what are you doing for him now” would have come up. In general, poets etc prefer to praise dead heroes than living ones because praising living ones can cut influence and create questions.

Comparing martyrs and deciding which martyr is above whom or below whom is not pleasant and also inaccurate. But in some ways, I consider Dutt as above Bhagat Singh. Dutt passed some very difficult tests in lives which Bhagat Singh never had to face. In 1950s, if Dutt had touched feet of Nehru and joined Congress, Congress would have at least made him an MLA and capitalized on his image to gain votes across India. Congressmen must have asked Dutt to join Congress and offered him money as well as seat in 1950s. But Dutt did not sell out in 1950s or even in 1960s. It is difficult for a 35 years old man not to sell out than a 25 year old man. And far more difficult for a 55 year old man not to sell out than a 45 year old man. We all would very much say that Bhagatji too would have never sold out. But Bhagatji was lucky enough that he never had to give the test of not selling out at age of 50 despite poverty. Dutt gave this test and passed.

I first read about Dutt’s sad life in 1988 in a library. After a long thought, with no anger in mind I said “Kisi bhi desh mein sabase badaa bevakoof  oos desh kaa deshbhat hota hai” (the biggest fool in a country is the patriot). Such remark was very unusual of me, because in my entire school life or college life, I never uttered a single bad word. And using word bevkoof for freedom fighter like Dutt was more than using just bad word. (later, after reading more on Dutt’s life, I changed it “second biggest fool”. To know who is the first, pls read gather more information about Dutt).
I would urge the reader to collect articles/books on Dutt.

Now why am I citing the life of Batukeshwar Dutt?

As much as I want 500 + 5000 + 50000 people to contest elections on RTR issue at National, State and Local levels, I want to pre-inform them of what may happen. RTR-PM, RTR Police Chief, RTR Supreme Court judges, RTR High Court judges are not just any political views  --- within minutes you become enemy of almost all in power and most of their relatives and most intellectuals who depend financially on them. RTR is not Lokpal, where bigger thieves (namely MNCs) get leverage over smaller thieves. RTR is not a time pass like Communism where nothing will happen till revolution comes. RTR movement’s format leaves no room for negotiations after election because the drafts are ready and can be put in Gazette within hours.
The act of putting RTI2 n Gazette will lead to chain of events, that within months drafts such as “Narco test in public of Ministers, senior officers, judges by majority vote” and “Imprisonment/execution of Ministers, senior officers, judges by majority vote” will also come Gazette, along with Right to Recall PM, RTR judges etc. These drafts are nightmare to all MNCs, all corrupt, most elitemen and every intellectual who depends on them.

So if you openly praise and demand RTR-drafts, sooner or later, you and other activists will ask intellectuals to give their opinions on drafts. If they support the drafts, they become enemy of elitemen and if they oppose the draft, then activists will be able to see thru that they are agents of elitemen. Because of this, they will hate you and may try all their best to damage you.

So if you wish to contest election on Right to Recall, MRCM, Jury etc , then at least be prepared to have a life like Dutt. Please spend a few days in deciding whether you can live such life. And if you think you have stomach to face a such life, then only contest election on RTR-issue. Otherwise, contesting election on RTR-issue should be avoided.

List-3 activities

step-3.1 : Read biography of Batukeshwar Dutt and Hiroo Onuda

step-3.2 : Translate RRG documents in your local languages

step-3.3 : Get 1000s of pamphlets printed on RTR and distribute them  door to door and/or bustands.

step-3.4 : Give advertisements in newspapers

step-3.5 : Write articles on administrative systems in India/World , past/resent.

step-3.6 : Prepare drafts to reduce problems of India.

step-3.7 : Contest election on RTR-issue, MRCM-issue, RTI2 issue etc.

step-3.8 : Start your own Right to Recall Party

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13.14    Election contesting and campaigning on RTR-drafts

Why I propose that maximal number of recallists should contest election? Because contesting election is fastest way to take the information on RTR-drafts to all political activists and citizens. If goal is to sell umbrella, then best time is rainy season. And same way, if goal is to ensure that maximal number of citizens, it would be inefficient not to contest elections.
Say you give 10000 pamphlets on RTR to citizens on a non-election day. Then perhaps 500 would read that pamphlet. But if it is election time, the atmosphere is so politically charged up, that out of 10000, over 3000 to 5000 would read any material that comes from a candidate. So best way to take information on RTR to citizens to become election candidate and then give newspaper advertisements and distribute pamphlets.

To contest election of MLA or MP constituency, you need deposit amount of Rs 10000. The money is small part, the real issue is huge amount paper-work needed. Say you decide to contest election. Then following are the steps you will need to do
(Section is to be expanded)

13.15    Suggested campaign methods for candidates

Following are the election related methods I followed, and I would suggest same to all RTR candidates. And as always, candidates may make changes :

1. Pls do not contest with desire or aim to win. To win elections, one needs at least 25% votes and to reach that level in constituency, a party needs either sectarian regional ideology or national level appeal which is fetching at least 5% votes nationwide. If RRG gets 5% votes at National level, RTR laws would come and much of electioneering would change.
2. Pls be prepared to face numerous harassments starting from income tax inquiry to extreme contempt from many around you.
3. Pls give a newspaper advertisement (expense will be in several lakhs)
4. Pls distribute pamphlets yourself as far as possible
5. If possible, have a registered magazine so that you may distribute pamphlets by post
6. Pls hold as many meetings as possible before election is announced. Because after election announcement, things will get hectic and it will become difficult to organize meetings etc.
7. For first few months, please take activists who are willing to join you to distribute pamphlets.  But later you must ask them to download the PDF mirror from your website directly and get them printed at offset and distributed. This step is necessary so that activists themselves too get training to become candidate. And it reduces your burden of administering pamphlet printing and distribution. In a later section, I have shown that N activists printing pamphlets by himself is cheaper than one leader administering N activists in pamphlet distribution.
8. Please do not give any hourly or daily compensation to activists. May be India is not going to die, and may be if India is going to die, RTR cant save it. But if RTR is solution, then by contesting election, you have done a major service to nation, and need not give any compensation to those who are helping India.
9. You should post several PDFs on your website – postcard to voter, inland letter to voter and pamphlets and their mirrors. This is necessary so that activists can download these PDFs

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13.16    How to counter and insult Psuedo Recallists

The “psuedo recallist” is a term I have invented to designate leaders whose goal is to take naïve recallists activists to a dead end and thus sabotage and kill RTR movement. In Aug-2011, the biggest psuedo recallists are The Anna, The Team and Nitish. The psuedo recallists will openly project themselves as torch bearer of right to recall movement, and the paid media will also call the as Great Leaders for RTR movement. But a close look at their actions will show that they only intend to misguide the activists.

Following are some key characteristics of psuedo-recallists, and a way to counter a psuedo-recallist  :

1. A psuedo-recallist will discourage activists from reading drafts , forget writing drafts : Law writing is not the job of the lawyers, not of the judges, not of the MPs, but of us citizens!! Yes, you and me, the commons have to give the drafts to the MPs, who then pass the drafts. The psuedo-recallists discourage draft reading by engaging the activists in activities like running schools, shouting slogans, campaigning for elections, character building, rallying, demonstrations etc. They will never ask the activists to read the drafts , forget discussing them. Thus activists will never get information about importance of Right to Recall. How can a true recallists counter this trick : In front of activists, ask the leaders to give the drafts of the law he supports to reduce poverty, improve Military etc. If he refuses, then tell his activist followers about importance of the Gazette Notification draft, and explain how leader is wasting their time and nation’s time by insisting on a draftless movement. Please keep a sample xerox copy of any Gazette Notification with you. And then compare draftless leader as someone who gives cheque but refuses to sign that cheque !! For more, pls see chap-16 on importance of drafts and more steps to counter draftless leaders.
2. A psuedo-recallist will say “I support Right to Recall” but never tell RTR over which positions : If one does not specify the vehicle details, and says “I want wheel”, he is making empty statement. Wheel of what? Airplane, car, cycle or toy car? Likewise, words “Right to Recall” are always attached with position eg Right to Recall MP, Right to recall MLA, Right to Recall PM, Right to Recall judges etc. Saying that “I support Right to Recall” and then refusing to enumerate positions is a sign that the person is psuedo-recallists. How can a true recallist counter this trick : Pls ask him if he supports\opposes Right to Recall Lokpal, RTR-PM, RTR Supreme Court judges etc. The psuedo-recallists will repeatedly refuse to cite the positions, and you repeatedly ask him to specify if he supports Right to Recall Lokpal, RTR PM etc. This way you can convince his activists that the leader is a time-waster.
3. A psuedo-recallist will insist that RTR should be supported but ‘later’ : (later = next life) : If a person insists on postponing Right to Recall MP, RTR-PM etc laws to later (later = next life time), he us a psuedo-recallists and wants to waste away time of Recallists and kill RTR movement. The “laterist” will cook several excuses --- (a) Now government will not pass it (b) Everything cannot come at same time. (c) If we raise RTR now, our unity will break (d) We will first get some XYZ law (like Lokpal Bill) passed and till this XYZ law passes we should stop activists from working on RTR and only after XYZ law passes we should focus on RTR. (e) we should choose good MPs, and bring them to power. All these are useless arguments. How can a true recallist counter this trick : Please ask the “later-sayers” in front of activists if they promise to promote RTR-Lokpal, RTR-PM etc draft in next lifetime and also tell them that they have been promising since past 7 lifetimes that they would work on RTR in next lifetime. Essentially, publicly insult everyone who talks about RTR “later” by throwing sarcasm that he will promote RTR is next lifetime. 
4. Psuedo Recallists will never refute claims of anti-recallists that RTR procedures are "impractical" or "unconstitutional" : A psuedo recallists will make tall claims for Right to Recall. And then when anti-recallists make counter-claims that RTR is impractical, these psuedo-recallists will never refute their claims, and thus they will create an image that RTR is indeed impractical. The best example of 1951-1977 was Jayprakash Narayan. The paid-media appointed him as the torch bearer of Right to Recall movement. To give lip service, JPN would always support Right to Recall 3 times a month. During debates, JPN will give draftless and abstract speech on RTR. Next, the anti-recallists such as Morarji Desai will make claims that “RTR will increase instability, will be too expensive etc etc”. And guess what --- JPN will never ever refute these claim. So to a large chunk of audience, RTR will appear as money-wasting and bad proposal. As of today (Nov-2011), The Anna is the biggest psuedo-recallists skillfully letting anti-recallists win the debate. Eg. The Anna claimed he supports RTR in apr-8-2011 and again on 28-aug-2011. Next, many anti-recallists such as CEC, LKA etc said that “RTR will instability”. And The Anna deliberately did not refute the claim, which created an impression in many people that RTR is indeed too expensive and can cause instability. How can a true recallist counter this trick : Explain to audience that the some of proposed RTR drafts, such as the drafts I have proposed, are practical, and hence the leader who is not refuting these claims is damaging RTR, and hence he is a psuedo-recallist.
5. Psuedo Recallists will put weak Right to Reject to diffuse Right to Recall Movement : When Rajiv Dixit used words Right to Reject , what he said was “a law by which citizens can reject anyone from Supreme Court judge, PM to MLA, Sarpanch any day, not just once in 5 years”. The psuedo-recallists have hijacked the words “Right to Reject” and given it a new and useless weak meaning  : power to reject only MP\MLA candidates, that too only once in 5 years !!  IOW, the initially, Right to Reject had same meaning as Right to Recall, and now a new weak meaning has been given and this weak Right to Reject is being posed as something more important that Right to Recall and used to diffuse focus on Right to Recall. How can a true recallist counter this trick : Explain audience about the fact that “None of the Above” button will cause no change whether 1% people will use it and will cause no change even if 100% people use it”. And also explain audience why “Right to Reject PM”, “Right to Reject MP”, “Right to Reject judges” anytime, not just once in 5 years is better option. And also explain that that Right to Reject is only used to kill and diffuse Right to Recall movement.
6. Psuedo Recallists will use Lokpal, Right to Reject etc proposals to kill Right to Recall Movement : A new breed of psuedo-recallists have popped up since Dec-2010 and have become very strong due to MNC paid TV-channels. They insist that RTR should be brought in future and must be opposed till Lokpal bill passes !! IOW, it is just another time wasting technique. How can a true recallist counter this trick : Counter these Lokpal-vaadies with Right to Recall Lokpal clauses given in chap-50. Pls explain audience that you are NOT changing topic, but you are still talking about Lokpal only and that Right to Recall Lokpal is related to Lokpal. When these Lokpal-vaadies oppose RTR-Lokpal, they will get exposed
7. Psuedo Recallists will demand signature based RTR procedure and oppose appearance based RTR procedure : There are two broad categories of recall procedures – signature based and appearance based. The signature based procedures is incomplete, fraud prone and extremely expensive for Govt (costs will run into Rs 50 per voter), while appearance based procedures have negligible possibility of fraud  and cost is low (Rs 3  for voter which decreases to 5 paise later, zero for Govt). Despite this, the psuedo-recallists will demand signature based procedure and thus give opportunity to anti-recallists that Right to Recall procedure is unviable. How can a true recallist counter this trick : Explain appearance based procedure to activists and cite that leader is deliberately refusing to support appearance based procedure and deliberately asking for signature based procedure so that RTR gets a bad name.
8. Psuedo Recallists will sell butter milk as milk: i.e. Psuedo-recallist will give uses procedure and then call it Right to Recall. eg when someone asked The Anna “do citizens have Right to recall Lokpal if Lokpal becomes corrupt?” . The Anna said “yes, the citizen can complain before Supreme Court judges and they will expel corrupt Lokpal !!”  This is selling butter-milk as milk. How? Right to Recall means procedure by which citizens can expel an official by proving majority but don’t need to convince any authority which too can be nexused. IOW, procedure to expel via judges may be good or bad, but it is NOT Right to Recall, and only a psuedo-recallist will call it Right to Recall. How can a true recallist counter this trick :  Explain to citizens that Right to Recall means expulsion by majority without having to approach or convince anyone, and that procedures like expulsion by judges or impeachment (expulsion by MPs) or non-confidence motion against PM\CM (expulsion by MPs\MLAs etc) are all prone to corruption, nexuses and nepotism.
9. Psuedo Recallists will never give cost estimate of RTR , so that anti-recall persons can easily push claim that RTR is too expensive :  The costs in RTR-PM procedures I have proposed on Govt is zero, and citizen pays Rs 3 per recall filing per citizen and so if 75 crore citizens exercise RTR-PM procedure, cost to replace PM will be Rs 210 crore. And cost per citizen decreases to a few paise per citizen when system becomes accessible via ATM and SMS. IOW, I have given cost estimates. So now if during a discussion or debate, if an anti-recall person says “RTR is too expensive”, audience will disagree. But a psuedo-recallists will deliberately not give a cost estimate and thus keep audience guessing, and enable anti-recall people to comfortably make claims that “RTR is too expensive”. How can a true recallist counter this trick :  A true recallist should explain RTR DEO, RTR PM etc procedures and then explain that costs estimates are below Rs 3 per voter per recall vote (i.e. approval filing) and decreases to few paise when system comes on ATM and SMS. And also cite the fact that when recall procedures come, need to recall decreases and so procedure hardly needs to be invoked 
10. Psuedo Recallists will insist on negative recall and oppose positive recall procedures: The anti-recall people cite a valid argument that Right to Recall may increase instability due to vacuum recall can create. This true for negative recall method, but not true for positive recall methods. (Let me explain. There are two types of recall procedures --- negative recall where a voter can demand expulsion only and positive recall where in a voter can register positive support for alternative, and replacement happens when alternative crosses a threshold. The positive recall procedure answers “who is alternative” before person is removed, while negative recall only removes person and cites no alternative. In positive recall, there is never a vacuum. The positive recall procedures do not cause instability as next person comes only if and when majority has agreed in transparent way that replacement is more preferred.) A psuedo-recallists will almost always demand negative recall procedures and oppose positive recall procedures because negative recall creates a fear of unknown and instability and thus anti-recall person can defeat the proposal with ease. How can a true recallist counter this trick :  A true recallists should explain to audience the difference between positive recall and negative recall methods, using Right to Recall District Education Officer or Right to Recall Lokpal or Right to Recall MP procedures as examples. And true recallist should make it clear that he is supporting positive recall and not negative recall, and so (valid) objection raised by anti-recall person is not applicable.

All in all, we Recallists have to study the tricks of psuedo-recallists carefully. As the movement grows, many anti-recallists will pose as psuedo-recallists, capture Right to Recall movement and make RTR look like infeasible and stupid proposal and thus ensure that RTR laws never come. This has happened numerous times in past. The Right to Recall demand was first put by Sachindranath Sanyal, the Guru of Bhagat Singh, in 1925 in manifesto of Hindustan Socialist Republic Association. And since then, from time to time, anti-recallists with co-operation of psuedo-recallists, have created a perception that Right to Recall is unviable and thus sabotaged RTR movement. Can you guess the biggest psuedo-recallists in India from 1950 to 1970s? And who is biggest psuedo-recallists as in oct-2011?

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13.17    Suggested campaign methods for non-candidate  workers

If you do believe that RTR information should go to maximal number of citizens, then pls campaign for a candidate who has worked hard to spread information on RTR. Why? Well, more the votes, more people will come to know about RTR and more activists will be promoted to contest election on RTR platform and information will spread father. The election time is the time when largest number of citizens are most interested in gathering information on political topics. So if you spread information on RTR during election time, that is most efficient way.

Following are the steps I propose you can follow :

1. Pls look at the list of all candidates, and decide which one has done most to spread information on RTR-draft, RTI2-draft, MRCM-draft etc. IMO, you should support that candidate, not necessarily the official RRG candidate.
2. If you think that candidate is contesting election not for spreading RTR information, but for his personal gains, please do not campaign for the candidate. If all candidates in your area are selfish, then please campaign for a candidate in a different area. If all candidates in your or near by areas are selfish and not committed to RTR, then pick a far area and communicate to its voters via post/internet
3. Above all, you must be very convinced that .you are giving time and money to spread RTR information, and NOT to give any personal gains to the candidate. If you have faintest doubt that candidate is contesting election
4. Pls download or otherwise obtain the voter-list of the area in which you want to work.
5. I request activists to directly download the election PDFs from the website of candidates and distribute it yourself in your area and near by area. Pls reduce the time burden as well as financial burden of candidate by not asking for pamphlets.

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13.18    Should activists print/distribute pamphlets themselves or should leader administer it?

The most important and expensive part in election campaign in newspaper advertisement. IMO, entire cost should be borne by the candidate alone. The second most important part in election campaign in pamphlet printing distribution. And IMO, this cost should be borne by activists assisting the candidate only, as far as possible.

The candidate may rightly think --- why would activists bear the costs?

When candidate is printing pamphlets, and giving it to activist, there is no guarantee that activist will deliver them to voters. The activist has nothing to lose if all pamphlets just rot away. Further, the task of sending pamphlets from candidate’s premises to activists itself can be time consuming and expensive. Instead if activist gets pamphlets printed, then the wastages will be minimal, and there is low cost of delivery.

Will the activists print pamphlets will their own money?

Consider a 1 page pamphlet. Cost of printing 4000 such pamphlets will be about Rs 1000. And consider an 8 page pamphlet. Cost of printing 1000 copies will be Rs 1200. It can be less, if newsprint quality paper is chosen. So question is : will activist spend so much money in campaign? If not, then perhaps it is impossible to save the nation --- so be it. If India doesn’t have 200,000 activists willing to print and distribute pamphlets at their time and money, IMO, it is not not possible to save India no matter how hard election candidates try. There is a limit one should do all by himself, and rest must be left to others.

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13.19    Overall expense and time estimate

The entire RTR-movement has two broad parts :- developing the Gazette Notification drafts which can reduce the problems of India and campaign to force to Ministers etc to print those draft in the Gazette. One way most parties proposes to activists is “convince citizens to vote for our men into Parliament and our MPs will print necessary GNs to reduce problems”. I propose different way to the activists – “lets ask citizens to force existing PM/CMs to print RTI2-draft in Gazette, and then bring more GNs to bring the necessary changes in the Govt.”.

To generate the mass movement for RTI2, the activists who want mass movement on RTI2 need to inform citizens about what is Gazette Notification, what are proposed GN drafts such as RTI2, RTR-PM, RTR-SCCj, RTR-Lokpal, RTR, MRCM drafts, and also about the fact that Indian Military may weaken without these RTR drafts. Informing citizens is enough – IMO we do NOT need drama.

The activists will need to give time to spread the information, and will also need to spend money. Then how is my plan different from other parties’ plan? Most parties ask for donation collection, where as here activists need to spend money on their own or in small group, and money is spent only in pamphlet distribution and newspaper ads. The time needed to explain the drafts will be about 30 minutes per citizens and cost of newspaper-ad pamphlet will be about Rs 20 per citizen. So total hours RTR movement needs to take the information to 10 cr citizens is (10 cr * 30 min) = 300 cr minutes = 5 cr hours = 500 lakh hours. One way to obtain so many hours is :

Column1 -- Col2 -- Col3 -- Col4
VolunteerType -- nVolunteers --  Hrs per wk -- Hrs per year -- Total  Hours(in lakhs)
A -- 500 -- 30 -- 1500 -- 20 lakhs
B -- 5,000 -- 20 -- 1000 -- 50 lakhs
C -- 50,000 -- 10 -- 500 -- 250 lakhs
D -- 150,000 -- 4 -- 200 -- 300 lakhs
TOTAL , in 1 yr --   205,500 --  620 lakhs

So with about 200,000 volunteers spending 4 hrs a week and some volunteers spending more time, it is possible to spread the information on RTR-drafts to 10 cr citizens of India.

The cost newspaper ads and pamphlets in the campaign is Rs 20 per citizen, and so to take this information to 10 cr citizens, it would cost Rs 200 cr worth newspaper ads and pamphlets. And one way to make available is as follows

Column1 -- Col2 -- Col3 -- Col4
VolunteerType -- nVolunteers --  Hrs per wk -- Hrs per year -- Total  Hours(in lakhs)
A -- 500 -- 400,000 -- 20 cr
B -- 5,000 -- 60,000 -- 30 cr
C -- 50,000 -- 12,000 -- 60 cr
D -- 150,000 -- 6,000  --  90 cr
TOTAL , in 1 yr --  200 cr

The difficult part is --- IMO, the RTR-campaign needs about 500 people who can spend both, 30 hours a week and Rs 400,000 a year, and people who can spend 20 hours a week and Rs 60000 per year. Having persons who spend only money but no time to understand and spread information about the drafts will not help.

IMO, the campaign needs 500 independent heads, about one per each Loksabha constituency, who are thorough with existing/past laws of India/West and proposed drafts to reduce problems of India. They must be willing to spend time to grasp these information points, and willing to spend time to answer questions of citizens and activists. And should be also willing to contest (and lose) Loksabha election. This also means willingness to face harassments. If they are willing to spend only money and no time, the information will not each citizens and it will be difficult to raise mass movement.

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13.20    To reduce conflicts  amongst activists

1. If an activists doesn’t like other activist, he should be free to leave him anytime. There will never be a reporting structure amongst Recallists.
2. Activists should ask activists to confine about drafts as far as possible
3. I request all Recallists not to discuss RTR etc with colleagues in his company. Because the company where you work and your relationship with other employee of the company is paid for by your employers. You did not create that relation , you did not bear the costs one has to bear to create relation and so should not use it to further your activist goals.  Further, when you are proposing a law, the other person must have option of being rude to you and rude towards your proposal, an option a fellow employee doesn’t not have. If other employees are anti-recall, then your promoting RTR in the employees can create heated arguments inside company and damage your employers’ legitimate interests. So please do not preach RTR-law-drafts to colleagues in your company. Now this restriction that “do not preach RTR to fellow employees in your company” should not reduce your pace. There are 121 crore citizens in India you have to inform RTR about. Take out a few hundred, and still you have lot of work to do. And don’t worry about “who will inform my colleagues about RTR-draft?”. If the movement progresses, there will be 10000s of Recallists, and one of them, who is not employee of your company will inform your colleagues in your company about RTR-drafts.
4. Now what if any colleague working in your company asks you on RRG-drafts? An answer that “don’t talk to me about RRG can be too rude”. So pls answer some basic questions, and then politely ask him to download http://tinyurl.com/rahulmehta301 or 301.pdf from http://rahulmehta.com and also very politely ask him to read section-13.18, item-3, and pls request him to join RTR Facebook community. So if he wants to know about RTR-drafts, he has all the text and links with him. He will click and seek. And the colleague is of opposite sex, pls also ask him or her to read section-13.19.
5. Also, a Recallist is requested not to discuss RTR etc with not to discuss with close relatives. Because if other person is anti-RTR or a psuedo-recallist or a judge/IAS/Minister or close relative of judge/IAS/Minister, then discussion on RTR with him can cause a lot of damage to your relation. There are 121 crore citizens in India you have to inform RTR about. Take out a few hundred, and still you have lot of work to do.
6. Never discuss RTR at a meeting where agenda is non-political. Eg avoid discussing RTR at social functions like weddings, business meetings etc. If you are contesting elections, NEVER discuss RTR on such occasions, unless you are sure that person wants to listen and he initiates discussion, and persons who are uninterested are not around.
7. [To be expanded]

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13.21    To reduce possibility of sexual harassment amongst the Recallists

IMO, every group founder must disclose policy he adopts to reduce the possibility and deal with complaints in case harassment happens. And if they have no policy, at least they must state it so that it is clear to all citizens about the nature or limitations of the group.

Now if there is harassment, is there any moral responsibility of mine or RRG to begin with? To some extent, YES, it does become my responsibility. But only to some extent. Why? Because as a part of RRG activities, I ask all volunteers to call as many people as possible and I also ask people to listen to my RRG activists. So I and other RRG members encourage contact-making. Now if something goes wrong due to contacts we asked to make, then to some extent we should try ensure that such wrong things do not happen.

So IMO, we Recallists should have a policy to reduce the possibilities of sexual harassment and confusion amongst us. So the policy I propose to ALL activists to reduce the possibility of sexual harassment from happening is : to explain RTR-drafts or organize rallies or any activities, a male activist will call or meet ONLY male activist. And a female activist will call or meet ONLY female activist. Now what if a female activists has questions which female activists she knows fail to answer? This is very much likely to happen in the beginning as most activists are male. In such cases, she can post the questions on Facebook community or ask in weekly Skype group meetings, but cannot ask a male activist. So no calls or meetings in person or even in groups. A male (or female) activist may or may not call female (or male) activist, for personal or other reasons, but not to explain or ask about RTR law-drafts or talk about any RRG activities.

So now, if they call or meet, I request all RRG-members to note that this communication or contact was not asked by RRG-seniors or RRG-activity list --- it was personal decisions of both.

I will elaborate further

1. The one and only purpose of RRG is to inform citizens about proposed RTR-drafts and nothing else. This needs communication, contesting elections, rallies etc and nothing more.
2. The activists can interact via facebook communities, weekly skype public meetings etc
3. The activists may need one-on-one communication or in small groups to understand/explain RTR-drafts etc and for this, a male activist will call\meet only a male activist. Even in case of group meetings, male activists can call only call male activists.
4. The activists will still need one-on-one communication or in small groups to understand/explain RTR-drafts , campaign methods etc and for this, a female activist will call\meet ONLY a female activist. Even in case of group meetings, female activists can call only call female activists, except for public rallies where whole public is invited.
5. These restrictions have nothing to do with any kind of chastity (Bhrahmcharya). The activists are free to talk and meet for personal or any reasons, but please note, that it MUST not be for sake of RTR-draft or RRG-activities.
6.  The restrictions will not effect the rate at which information on RTR-drafts can spread. If above restrictions prohibit a male (or female) RRG activist from communicating with a female (or male) RRG-activist to inform her (or him) about RTR-drafts, then there are 60 crore males (or females) in India to choose from. And there are enough female activists who can spread information in females and enough male activists to spread information in males.
7. Now say a female, who has no knowledge of RRG or RTR-drafts, asks a male Recallist about RTR-drafts etc. And then perhaps, making very first statement as “please ask a female Recallist” can be very rude. So I would request the male activist to answer the basic questions, and then pls politely ask her to download this book and read this section-13.21 .
8. Now say a male, who has no knowledge of RRG or RTR-drafts, asks a female Recallist about RTR-drafts etc. Please then pls ask him to download this book and read this section-13.21.

This was policy I proposed to reduce the possibility of sexual harassment. Now what would I as National Coordinator do if an incidence does allegedly happen and a complaint comes? Nothing. Please note again – I would do nothing. Why? To begin with, to act meaningfully in such complaints, one needs power to conduct lie detection test or narco-test on the accused to get some idea about the facts. I have no such power nor do I have any facility to take such tests. RRG is a voluntary organization. Further, the policy clearly mentioned not to accept any phone or in-person contact to discuss RRG-drafts or RRG-activities And despite such policy, if one accepts contacts, I have reason to believe that both had personal interests. And if they had personal interests, and problems come out of the personal interests, then myself sitting far and away cant do much to deal with the problems.

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13.22    RTR activism – no glory, no fame, no appreciation, some risks, and a lot of contempt

And if by any chance, any activist thinks that by taking the cause of RTR-drafts he will gain any attention etc, I request him to re-read biographical articles on Batukeshwar Dutt. His actions of confronting British, facing possibility of execution and actually facing 10 years of imprisonment never got him any appreciation from even people close to him till he died. Even after his death, he remained a forgotten hero. Since 2010, I am trying my best to ensure that EVERY activists knows about him, but not much success. Now this is what happened with one of the most well known activists. The fate of others who were less known was even worse.

The fake-activism, like campaigning for laws MNCs want (eg Lokpal with no right  to recall Lokpal clauses and no Jury clauses) fetches huge support from elitemen-paid media and activists in this area get lots of fame and glory. But true activism, like RTR-judges draft, RTR-Lokpal clauses etc fetches blanket ignorance from media. Many  people have tendency to appreciate what media says and nothing else and so they wont even notice true activists. So if any RTR-activist thinks that

RTR-activism will fetch him glory and fame, he is deeply mistaken. Glory in most cases comes after media coverage, and

RTR-activism will never get media coverage, and hence no glory.

What about people who are close-by who will come to know without media? Wont RTR-activism get glory at least from them? NO. A true-activist will remind them of the fact that the true-activist is spending time and money and taking risk for cause, whereas they are doing nothing. So a true-activist fetches only jealously from most (not all) persons around him which then translates into contempt and even hatred. For example, just try to guess why Batukeshwar Dutt got no appreciation from people close to him till he died? My guess is : because his mere presence would remind to people close to him, that Dutt worked for a cause and they did not. In many minds, this create jealously , then contempt and then hatred.
And what if RTR-drafts actually come? Then the persons to whom mediamen and textbook-writers will give credit to can very well be different from persons who actually drafted the drafts and took initiatives to spread information on the drafts.

Some people do work, some people focus on blocking the work and taking credit if they fail to block. And in past, too many people who did nothing got credit  (eg Mohanbhai and Congress did nothing to get freedom, and they got almost all credit and soldiers who revolted in Jun-1946 and soldiers of Azad Hind Fauz got near zero credit).

That’s why I want activists to be part time only, so that when the musical chair game ends, and if they are without the chair, they have less to repent about. And during 4-5 hours they spend per week, they must have no illusion of getting any fame, any glory or any appreciation from anyone. And they should be prepared to face contempt from many. If they read the biography of Batukeshwar Dutt, they will understand this better.

The RRG-activists must never ever expect any appreciation from people around or citizens at large. The day they start hoping that some appreciation should come --- that’s the day they would be disappointed and may leave RRG activism for good. Lest such day would come, I request all RRG activists not to expect any activism from day one. And the day they want appreciation, they should take interval from RRG activism

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13.23    Summary

The hard part in RTR movement is the following most likely scenario  –

1. RTR-drafts get printed in Gazette and the citizens gain
2. activists who have spent time and money will get no more than what an average citizen will gain
3. no fame, no power, no glory, no appreciation and no recognition ; not even from people close to you and know you
4. worse, you may get contempt from people near you for several reasons

So to all activists, who are spending over 4 hours a week on true-activism, such as publicizing Right to Recall drafts, I strongly urge them to read as many biographical articles as they can. This will make them plan to face the situation, that they may never get any even appreciation. And when they actually get no appreciation, the mental damage will be less.
RTR-activism is a 100% give-away. And it becomes clear from day-1 to every activist, that personal gains are zero. Unlike other ideologies and parties, RTR-campaign give no illusions. So only utterly 100% selfless person will spend time/money in spreading information on RTR-drafts. This may make the movement slow, but will make it non-decreasing.

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13.24    Questions

• Try to summarize life of Batukeshwar Dutt in one line
• Try to summarize directive an activist may draw from the life of Batukeshwar Dutt in one line