From 1870 to 1998, Right to Recall movement in India went sluggish because front-runners did not give drafts (9-Apr-2012) No.1

April 9, 2012

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From 1870 to 1998, Right to Recall movement in India went sluggish because front-runners did not give drafts. And from 1999-2012, RTR-movement has been sluggish because activists do not want to read the drafts !! Let me elaborate.

I have been trying to spread information on Right to Recall drafts and several other drafts since oct-1998. RTR is not new in India at all. In 1870, Swami Dayanand Saraswatijee said that "Raajaa must be Praajaadheen, and if Raajvarg is not Prajaa-dheen he will rob citizens and thus nation will weaken and collapse". Thus Swami Dayanand Saraswatijee laid foundation of RTR. Later in 1925, Mahatma Sachindranath Sanyal and Mahatma Chandra Shekhar Azad wrote "in the republic we want to create, citizens shall have Right to Recall, without which, democracy will become a joke". Then many senior leaders from 1925 to 1980 such as M N Roy, Jaiprakash Narayan etc campaign for RTR. But movement remained sluggish till 1998 for one key reason --- none gave a DRAFT that would create a cheap, sellout free, non-unstable Right to Recall procedure. So the valid questions against RTR such "wont this be expensive? wont this create vote-selling? wont this create instability" etc remained unanswered and so RTR-movement remain sluggish !!

It is not that RTR-movement took rocket speed after 1998. Even after 1998, it remained sluggish for a different reason --- the activists oppose the idea of reading the drafts !!!! Let me elaborate.

There were 3 valid concerns against RTR-PM and other RTR procedures. Expense, voter-sellout, instability etc. The drafts I gave in oct-1998 and later in 2004 cleared all concerned beyond doubt. But over 90 out 100 activists who liked RTR refused to read the draft !! So when they campaigned for RTR, they would never be able to answer "how expensive the procedure is? what if voters sell out? wont there be recall every month?" etc. So the draft could not go from one activist to another.

All in all, if the movement spreads, it will only by those who understand and explain the drafts. So I would re-request activists to read the drafts.