Economic Times carried an interesting article on 30 May 2009 on Page 3
In West Bengal CPM claims a party membership of 3.21 lakh and a mass organization membership of 3.43 crore.
But CPM got only 33.1% of the vote share.
About 70 to 75% of the states 4.89 crore electorate cast its vote this year. This means CPM did not get votes to a large extent from its mass organization members.
Reason: I keep arguing is that party members (Of all political parties in India) are not meeting nonparty people systematically.
In Kerala, the party membership is over 3.64 lakh and mass organization membership is around 1.42 crore. Kerala's electorate is two crore. Around 60% voted and CPM got 30.48%. Once again party members could not even mobilise their mass organization members.
The combined membership of all mass organizations belonging to CPM increased to 6,17,93,166 at the time 2008 party congress. The earlier party congress figure was 4,91,54,970.
Is there a need for party members to develop intimate contact with nonparty persons. Yes it is there. People in general will welcome if political party members take interest and meet them regularly.
Showing posts with label Political issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political issues. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Shivsena - Ideology
http://www.shivsena.org/
http://www.shivsena.org/LoksabhaVachannama.pdf
What is the ideology of Shivsena?
To be explored.
http://www.shivsena.org/LoksabhaVachannama.pdf
What is the ideology of Shivsena?
To be explored.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
BJP and Its Ideology -Is It Committed to It?
There are certain personality based parties and there are certain ideology based parties in India.
BJP and Left parties are considered as ideology based parties.
Lallu Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav have parties with socialist background but at the moment they are more personality based parties rather than ideology based parties.
What is the ideology of BJP?
BJP is a part of Sangh Parivar? Hence its ideology is based on ideology of RSS. What is the ideology of RSS?
RSS is engaged in making hindus socially conscious. According to it, Hindu society was defeated in military struggles because it did not understand the importance of social solidarity and cohesion. Hindu society is highly fragmented on the basis of sects and castes. Individual and family issues are getting the preference both for religious issues as well as for economic issues and society is not getting the attention it deserved from Hindus. RSS is trying to create a more cohesive hindu society. It also dreams of a very wealthy and prosperous India. BJP is a political organization within the outfits promoted by RSS persons has a role to play in accelerating the cohesion among Hindus.
On an ideological basis, social issues dominate BJP's policy. It has to take care of economic development of the country. But somehow, BJP governments in power are not able to do much in the area of furthering the social transformation. They are getting engulfed in economic issues and going on the path shown by congress party persons. BJP is losing vote share because of that. It is not able to take care of the aspirations of its support base.
Some parties have as their support base people who want some money and some distribution of liquor for some days to give votes. BJP's core support base is not built on money and liquor. But BJP is unable to fulfil the needs of its support base in terms of its ideology and probably some party candidates are trying the money and liquor route.
For instance, can any BJP state government claim significant increase in Sangh Parivar acvitiy in its state due to its being in power in the state?
Ideological parties cannot progress further if they are not promoting their ideology.
Today Hindustan Times carried an editorial article with the caption there is no Hindu Vote? Who is responsible for such a state of affairs? It is BJP. It is there to develop a Hindu Vote/ It is its mission? Has it failed?
BJP and Left parties are considered as ideology based parties.
Lallu Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav have parties with socialist background but at the moment they are more personality based parties rather than ideology based parties.
What is the ideology of BJP?
BJP is a part of Sangh Parivar? Hence its ideology is based on ideology of RSS. What is the ideology of RSS?
RSS is engaged in making hindus socially conscious. According to it, Hindu society was defeated in military struggles because it did not understand the importance of social solidarity and cohesion. Hindu society is highly fragmented on the basis of sects and castes. Individual and family issues are getting the preference both for religious issues as well as for economic issues and society is not getting the attention it deserved from Hindus. RSS is trying to create a more cohesive hindu society. It also dreams of a very wealthy and prosperous India. BJP is a political organization within the outfits promoted by RSS persons has a role to play in accelerating the cohesion among Hindus.
On an ideological basis, social issues dominate BJP's policy. It has to take care of economic development of the country. But somehow, BJP governments in power are not able to do much in the area of furthering the social transformation. They are getting engulfed in economic issues and going on the path shown by congress party persons. BJP is losing vote share because of that. It is not able to take care of the aspirations of its support base.
Some parties have as their support base people who want some money and some distribution of liquor for some days to give votes. BJP's core support base is not built on money and liquor. But BJP is unable to fulfil the needs of its support base in terms of its ideology and probably some party candidates are trying the money and liquor route.
For instance, can any BJP state government claim significant increase in Sangh Parivar acvitiy in its state due to its being in power in the state?
Ideological parties cannot progress further if they are not promoting their ideology.
Today Hindustan Times carried an editorial article with the caption there is no Hindu Vote? Who is responsible for such a state of affairs? It is BJP. It is there to develop a Hindu Vote/ It is its mission? Has it failed?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Is Left Irrelevant Now?
I think left parties are relevant.
But they are not sticking to their core ideology.
Their core ideology could be ushering in communism or socialism.
In a democratic setup their ideology could be promoting public sector as an economic agent and supporting working class in defending their rights as well as to create political leadership from working classes.
Are the left parties doing these things successfully? One comes across very rarely in the media any success stories of left parties in the area of public sector.
Even in the area of supporting woring class, the left is inactive nowadays. Have left promoted political leadership in working classes recently. Once again it is difficult to find examples in every day news.
What is left doing? It is into manipulative politics with congress and caste based parties. It will be good for the society if left focuses on its ideology.
Even BJP has the same problem.In stead of politics that promote its ideology it is promoting personality based strategies. The isse is not whether Advani became a prime minister or not? The issue is how far the ideology of the party was promoted? Have they lost an opportunity to promote their ideology? Have they used their last term in the office to promote their ideology?
But they are not sticking to their core ideology.
Their core ideology could be ushering in communism or socialism.
In a democratic setup their ideology could be promoting public sector as an economic agent and supporting working class in defending their rights as well as to create political leadership from working classes.
Are the left parties doing these things successfully? One comes across very rarely in the media any success stories of left parties in the area of public sector.
Even in the area of supporting woring class, the left is inactive nowadays. Have left promoted political leadership in working classes recently. Once again it is difficult to find examples in every day news.
What is left doing? It is into manipulative politics with congress and caste based parties. It will be good for the society if left focuses on its ideology.
Even BJP has the same problem.In stead of politics that promote its ideology it is promoting personality based strategies. The isse is not whether Advani became a prime minister or not? The issue is how far the ideology of the party was promoted? Have they lost an opportunity to promote their ideology? Have they used their last term in the office to promote their ideology?
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