FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ON PROPOSAL OF VOTERSHIP
WHAT IS VOTERSHIP………………………………………………………………………….. 02
NEW CHALLENGES BEFORE PETITION COMMITTEE ………………………...... 07
WHY PROVISION OF VOTERSHIP? ……………………………………………………… 08
WHAT IS BENEFIT OF VOTERSHIP? ……………………………………………………… 82
WHAT WILL BE THE SOURCE OF FUND FOR VOTERSHIP? ………………...... 115
HISTORY OF VOTERSHIP ……………………………………………………………………… 134
INTERIM DRAFT OF BILL FOR VOTERSHIP …………………………………………… 157
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WHAT IS VOTERSHIP
Definition ………………………………………………………………………………… 02 Terminologies used in Definition of Voters………………………………. 02 Other Terminologies……………………………………………………………….. 04
Definitions Votership or Matdatavriti (in Hindi) - means, A part of per capita production of Union Of India, to be received regularly in form of cash by every voter who is enrolled on electoral roll prepared by Election Commission Of India for the elections of Lok Sabha, by ATM cash card Or any other similar transparent means, as their share in gross national inherited wealth and in the collective wealth produced by collective enterprise of all voters, as a contrivance - to enhance the dignity of work of individual in relation to one’s birth status; to compensate voters who are suffering from the world consumers, world traders and from the policies of WTO, to create fifth pillar in the building of democracy adopting the new structure of power and of laws based on the basic principles of economic democracy, to provide opportunity for full development of inherent shape, size and nature of society and full development of inherent physical, mental and spiritual strength of individual; to connect each and every voter with the level of prosperity of nation; to make social security, economic human right, right to live and getting their share in average collective property; fundamental right of all the voters.
(Note- Votership is a newly coined word like scholarship to denote a part of GDP in form of cash to be received regularly by every voter as his or her birthright.)
Terminologies used in Definition of Votership -
(i) By birth financial right - Means, a right to be acknowledged by parliament, same as the right of the Inheritance (birth right), by which some amount in cash from the government, to be received regularly by every voter, without the condition of work, in the capacity of being a children of father of Nation. (ii) To give opportunity to develop inborn spiritual qualities - Means, To provide opportunity for evolution of inborn qualities of consciousness of individual to the inborn extent, inborn direction, in relation to the collective consciousness which exists in the shape of tree.
(iii) To give opportunity to develop inborn spiritual qualities - Means, To provide opportunity to each and every individual in the direction of his own depth of consciousness level (inborn qualities) which he received by innate spiritual influence in relation with the collective tree- shape human super consciousness.
(iv) Collective Property - Means, A third category of property beside private and public properties, produced by the collective role of voters, such as the wealth related to the different
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succession acts, price rise, interest, rent, net profit and the surplus capital of companies, share of exchange medium in the individual profit and the share of natural resources and machines in GDP.
(v) Collective Money - Means, the monetary value of collective property,
(vi) Right of Life - Means, As a birth right, Votership (a minimum consumption level) is necessary for any citizen to live with dignity and with economic freedom which should recognized and given regularly, by the Central legislature, by law, as fundamental consumption right of voters.
(vii) Economic Human Right - Means, a complementary and economic that dimension of Human right, rendered regularly in form of cash, a minimum share in average of per capita production of the world, to the voters only on the basis of being a human being as their birth economic right, by the UNO or world government or any other equivalent global body, so that everybody may get their share in collective wealth, live with economic freedom, and reach overall development of personality and consume a port of direct and real share in the government revenue.
(viii) Economic Freedom - Means, a freedom of individual to live his own life in such a way that nobody can be compelled to do work without his own will and none should be exploited due to starvation and be free to attain opportunity to bargain his/her manual labor from the purchaser and also receives regularly a minimum share in the average production of nation in the form of cash by central government as their birth economic right from the central government.
(ix) Minimum Economic Equality - Means, a minimum level of economic equality acknowledged among the voters by the central government, by rendering all the voters the average share in gross domestic collective money and a minimum share in average domestic production of Union resources by the Central Government by law, as their birth economic right in the form of cash given regularly as Votership.
(x) Financial Right on the basis of birth - Means, a right like succession right to be recognized by the parliament, to all the voter, in capacity of being a son or daughter of nation; by which some amount in form of cash, regularly rendered to them by central government without any condition or compulsion of manual labor or work.
(xi) Developing more judicious structure of democracy - Means, developing the required power structure of State to fulfill the newly arise foreign needs of domestic voters due to the Globalization process of market which created the requirement of Para-national common votership and governance, explained in the concern part of this petition.
(xii) Economic discrimination on the basis of birth - Means; violating the Article 14 and 15 of the Indian constitution, by making someone prosperous and some others poor on the basis of birth, regarding the birth status and humiliating the work status keeping method of getting hard work for payment of small amount of daily wage on the basis of market rates and making billionaire and millionaire to the children of capitalists without any test of their talent and without any condition of work, by the Parliament of India and the government through different succession Laws related to the right of Inheritance.
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(xiii) To establish minimum economic equality - Means, rendering 50% amount of average domestic production in form of cash to all the voters as Votership without any condition of work as Votership. (xiv) To make possible, survival of life of principal petitioner in non-violent way- Means; to make possible the livelihood of principal petitioner, so that nobody can be replaced from any other’s source of bread and butter. The principal petitioner can be able to safeguard himself from the guilty consciousness of replacing one from his livelihood. Hence, the principal petitioner assumes that the regular amount of Votership could definitely become the non-violent source of income. And such a life is said to be non-violent life in this petition. (xv) To make possible, the marriage of principal petitioner - Means; due to the absence of Votership the principal petitioner could not be able to get any non-violent or sinless source of regular and definite income and postponed his marriage till the receipt of the amount of Votership becomes possible. That is why, the members of family of the principal petitioner are serious and worried about the danger of collapse of one lineage branch of their family if Votership is not made available. By this non-violent income of Votership he wishes to give matrimonial advertisement to start his married life and for that, the principal petitioner is requesting in the petition before Rajya Sabha, considering Rajya Sabha an only efficient institution for making possible his marriage, through the regular income of Votership. (xvi) Initiating necessary action by Lok Sabha - Means; to perform the role of Parliament’s jurisdiction to execute the agenda is mentiones herewith, and to pass bill or resolution to initiate a minimum economic equality among the voters as a birth financial right of all the voters.
Other Terminologies -
(i) The pain due to the economic disparity - Means; the psychic pain borne due to the demonstration effect and by the helplessness of not able to get luxurious goods for them and by the lack of the funds to spend for their satisfaction and enjoyment like the other persons do.
(ii) Economic Duty - Means; the regular fund for distribution among the voters given to the government by the world traders and the world consumers as the compensative amount - Votership fund to the sufferers of the agreement for the world traders and the right of world consumption.
(iii) Economic Rape - Means; to compel to do work by himself against own will on the order of salary payer for earning means of basic consumption for the survival, from the voters who are deceived and pushed out from the circumference of even income level of fifty percent of the average national income as their birth right.
(iv) Economic Corruption - Means; such behavior and activities of the prosperous people by which they mishandle the organs of executive and legislature and judiciary in his/her personal interest by the financial power of donation to the politicians and spend on self consumption, amusement and convenience in spite of on the development projects of country.
(v) Antyodai (capital) Justice - Means; a placement of different communities living in different social and economical vertical hierarchy in the political structure of society, in such a way that the power of higher class representative should be on lower political status and the lower class representatives on higher political status
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(vi) Economic Votership - Means; the relation of the voter with any particular state and under which, state provides regular amount of minimum fifty percent of average income of the nation, to the voter, as Votership as their birth economic right.
(vii) Illusive Development - Means; A false development that visualized by the transfer of prosperity from one place to another in spite of by the material growth in production. For example - the building material of thousands of small bridges seen in a single flyover, the building material of houses of thousands families seen in a road, some consumer goods purchased by the hard labor money seen in the house of another person; the prosperity seen in one country seen in the next country produced by the enterprise of another country.
(viii) AB Consciousness - Means; a specific matrix of thinking produced in the mind of a individual is due to the specific variety of nervous structure and electro conduction flowing in the nervous system or in the soul of human being and the existence of these branches of nerves going parallel with the blood vessels all over in the body. In medical science diagnosis proved that there are eight varieties of blood, And it is hypothetically understood by the principal petitioner that there must be minimum 8 variety of impulses in the nervous system of human beings, and it cannot be possible of a single variety of electro conduction among the eight types of blood varieties, these varieties of impulses are responsible for the different thought processes seen in the society. So the basic reason of ideological differences among the society is due to the different varieties of electro conductions or impulses flowing in the nerves of human beings. As we know that this AB type of blood group is called “Universal accepter’ in medical science. And when AB group of blood influences the nervous system In the embryological process of the child, the child becomes universal accepter in term of material and money; such person’s mind governed with the inspiration to centralize money in the self interest not in the account of other persons. These type of people gives first priority to money for their life, and in the society such type of people are the followers of capitalism, so the ideological group produced by the AB group of blood is called AB consciousness in this petition.
(ix) National range of consumption - Means; the Parliament of union of India recognizes the consumption of the limited amount of a citizen more than per capita average income in the interest of nation.
(x) ‘O’ consciousness - Means; the variety of ideological matrix, governed by the ‘O’ variety of blood group is called ‘O’ consciousness in this petition. The bearer of this type of consciousness wants to decentralize the money among all, like in medical terms ‘O’ blood group is ‘universal donor’ can give blood to any blood group, this is due to the influence of ‘O’ blood group of electro conduction influenced by ‘O’ blood group in the nervous system.
(xi) GAPP - Means; Concise form of ‘Global Agreement on Poverty and Peace’. A proposal of global agreement, to develop such a political and economic world order that can be able to impose effective compensation to the voters of different countries of the world who are suffering in terms of economics due to GATT Agreement, WTO, world Consumers, World traders, newly recognized right of world consumption and world trade. This agreement also convey a objective for eliminating the poverty from all over the world, through the principal of minimum
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economic equality and to make possible system of management to establish peace in the world by imposing financial duty on world consumers and world traders.
(xii) GAPP Drafting Commission - Means; the proposed Commission to be constituted by the Parliament for preparing the draft of ‘Global Agreement on Poverty and Peace’.
(xiii) Monetary Representative - Means; the public representative, who is efficient and really wish to do result giving work for the economic interest of public not only for the road like subjects of collective interest.
(xiv) Minimum Equality Line - Means; the limit line or share on per capita average permanent income by the Parliament as the birth economic right of all the voters to be distributed by the government regularly in the form of cash.
(xv) Para-National Problems - Means; the social, political and economic problems whose solutions required the collective efforts of governments and voters of many countries of the world and cannot be possible by the individual efforts of government or group of voters of a single country.
(xvi) Para-National Efforts - Means; the collective efforts made by many voters and governments of different countries to solve the Para-National problems. \ (xvii) (a) Principal Petitioner - Means; Bharat Gandhi, the in charge of Parliament Affairs Cell of Federation For Economic Freedom Movement, c/o Sunil Anand, B-5/124 Pashchim Vihar, New Delhi 110063, who initiated the effort to submit a petition in Rajya Sabha. (b) Petitioner - Means; Principal petitioner (c) Other Petitioners - Means; Petitioners other than principal petitioner.
(xviii) Multinational Votership - Means; the votership in which the individual enrolled in the voter list of more than two countries and can be entitled for the Para-national rights like - Common Votership of many Countries, voting power in in the election of legislative, right to become election candidate, right to become member of multinational legislature, executive and become judge of multinational judiciary.
(xix) Multinational Government - Means; a government constituted by common legislature and executive bodies elected by multinational voters to solve the para-national problems.
(xx) World Traders - Means; the traders of any country united with world traders and world consumers to made Para-national organization for their personal interest and diverted themselves from the economic problems of the voters of their country facing some problems, moreover, created some new problems like - Foreign debt and imbalance of payment by the import of foreign goods and services.
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NEW CHALLENGES BEFORE PETITION COMMITTEE
That, the experience of last some decades is showing that the dissatisfaction in Indian society has been increasing gradually in relation to the decreasing power to regulate the economic policies of the country by the masses of the country. Political power has been passed through different hands through elections but has failed to satisfy economic aspirations of masses so the growth of public discontent could not be controlled. That is why, no single party is getting absolute majority for some last decades. The status of legislature and executive has been undermined in comparison to judiciary. As a result of it, the judiciary started to issue orders and execute thereto even in the jurisdiction of the legislature and executive. Recently judiciary rendered benefits to a class on the cost of other class of society in its orders related to the anti reservation moments, ceiling of non-commercial buildings and demolition of JHUGGEES in Delhi. In fact it was the jurisdiction of legislature which has encroached upon by the judiciary. In such a situation state is functioning in the magnetic field of judiciary and proceeding on MAHAJAN PATH (the way suitable to those who earn their livelihood through the rent of the capital) instead of JANA PATH (the way suitable to masses). It has become indispensable to the petition committees of the parliament to start new tradition for entertaining the petitions in non-tradition matters such as present petition for Votership. It will have two fold effects, firstly, the people will inclined to file the public interest litigations in the parliament instead of filing it before judiciary. Secondly, the will of the public could be retained the highest position in comparison to judiciary, legislature and executive even in comparison to the constitution. So it is essential for judiciary to confine itself within the individual matters and the settlement of such subjects related to the public interest especially where there interest of a class of society may be fulfilled only on the cost of another class. Such type of matter should be assumed under the jurisdiction of parliament where possibilities of class struggle are involved. It is necessary so that the legislature could be able to restore its constitutional and autonomous status and state could be able to make law and could be able to execute according to the contemporary will of the public in spite of being governed itself by traditional and anti public acts created by itself during last years. It will be proper to courts to transfer such petitions for perusal of parliament so that the tendency of the collective violation on large scale of the orders of the courts could not be inculcated and the dignity of the courts could be maintained. In the changing scenario of the relations of judiciary and legislature it has become necessary for the parliament to expand the infra-structure of its petition committees to face the innovative challenges. As a result of above the fire of public unrest would be confined within the premises of parliament and it could not enter into the campus of judiciary. Due to the reasons of constitutional process of the courts the judgments thereof tend to crueler and less sensitive in comparison to the judgments given by the legislature. Judiciary supports the aspirations of the law in spite of the public. It has become necessary that the parliament should consider upon the non-traditional matters through its petition committees in non-traditional and more active manner. So that society could be able to get more sensitive and more democratic judgments in collective matters. This petition for Votership provides an opportunity for parliament especially to Rajya Sabha to fulfill this cause.
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WHY PROVISION OF VOTERSHIP?
GENERAL QUESTIONS ON PROPOSAL OF VOTERSHIP………………………………… 09
MARXISM AND VOTERSHIP: A COMPARISON …………………………………………….. 63
VOTERSHIP AND INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO ……………………………………………. 69
EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE WAYS OTHER THAN VOTERSHIP ……………… 75
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GENERAL QUESTIONS ON PROPOSAL OF VOTERSHIP
The Argument Regarding Poor Voters……………………………………………………….. 10
Logics related to the development …………………………………………………………… 20
The Plea That Implementation of Votership Is Impossible…………………………. 29
Other 21 Arguments against Votership……………………………………………………... 37
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THE ARGUMENT REGARDING POOR VOTERS
(a) Poor people will consume liquor……………………………………………………………………….. 11 (b) Poor people will increase the population ………………………………………………………… 11 (c) Poor people will stop working…………………………………………………………………………… 13 (d) The Poor Should Be Given Poverty Allowance: Votership not To All (?) ……………. 18 (e) Votership for the poor only, not for all (?) ……………………………………………………….. 19
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(a) The poor will consume liquor?
That if some amount is paid by the government to the poor voters as their share of national succession it can’t be held up on the basis of this argument that the poor will consume liquor as because- (i) It is not correct to call every poor an alcoholic, the fault lies with the person having a jaundiced eye on this issue. (ii) The poor who consume liquor will face problem themselves as they will left with the money too little to meet their other requirements. (iii) Conceding the logic that all the poor will consume liquor will debar those poor from their right, who don’t consume liquor. (iv) Conceding the logic of consuming liquor by the poor will debar even those ladies whose husbands consume liquor whereas it is necessary to give them their right to nourish their children and to protect the health of their wives. (v) There is not any legislation nor any tradition to hold up the amount from going into the hand of the alcoholic. Had it been so money could have been held up from going to the hands of alcoholic. Rich voters hence debarring the poor voters from their rights on the basis of alcoholism will violate the principle of equality before law and the article 14 and 15. (vi) Consuming alcohol can be immoral in the eyes of somebody but it can’t be illegal as long as installing wine factories, issuance of license for liquor shops and sale and purchase of wine is legal. Till then debarring the poor voters by advancing the arguments of alcoholism is either illogical or a conspiracy against the poor voters or both. (vii) This argument is natural outcome of AB sensory conscience.
(b) The poor will increase population?
That if the government makes an atonement by way of providing some regular payment to the voters as their economic birth right with a view to check the economic discrimination being made by the government itself among its voters on the basis of their birth, ‘the poor will reproduce more and more children to extract more amount’. By advancing such agreement the poor voters can’t be denied their natural right, as because:- (i) The definite income in form of some regular payment will not create economic security in the mind of the poor voters. Rather they will view their Votership as help in their old age and it will decrease their dependence on their children. When there will not be any requirement of the children for the purpose of help in the old ages, even then the poor voters will reproduce not for the economy of their families but for quenching their thirst of love and affection for their progeny. In the present economy, the poor families consider it necessary to have more children as they create source of income for them. (ii) That the population data supports this fact that the poor families reproduce more children. The poor families of the Muslims and the Scheduled castes/Scheduled tribes are example of this. The reason for the growth rate of population among them is the relative poverty of these communities, not the conspiracy to create a separate nation as a myth this effect is widely proclaimed. Had the increase in population been any inspiration to create separate nation, the population could have surpassed among particular communities of Punjab where separatist movement had gained momentum once upon the time.
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(iii) The thinking like this that more the children, the more secured economy of the family is acceptable among the poor families because they are always apprehensive in want of adequate economic security which should have been provided by the government that on an average only 5 out of the 10 children the family have will survive. 2-3 of the survived children may turn careless children, yet at least one or two children may become the source of family income. Thus, the basis motive to reproduce more number of children is caused by the present economy creating economic injustice along with these poor. (iv) That the logic of increasing population against the proposed economic birth right to be given to the voters by the government should have been acceptable in that situation if the amount was likely to be paid to the children just after their birth. Since the proposed amount is meant for a voter of 18 years, hence the parents will have to bear the responsibility of their upbringing education and medical aid. The parents having more children will have to undergo the punishment of economic scarcity. The poor too out of the fear of this punishment will start reproducing less number of children on the pattern of the rich voters. (v) The number of children get reduced in the family with economic prosperity. The rich families of Indian, Muslims and Dalits the very communities which are allegedly said to be producing more children are apparent example of this. Since, economic prosperity of all the voters will increase with the recognition of economic rights based on their birth, so not only the riches but also the poor will produce less number of children. (vi) That the poor citizen will produce more children if they are given economic rights based on their birth as this statement entails this hidden meaning that the government has awarded prosperity to the rich people for the reason that they have produce less number of children. This argument can’t be accepted due to two reasons. One that the rich people produce less number of children not for the sake of nation rather they require that number of children only in the economy of their families. Secondly the less number of children in the families the rich people is not the outcome of their efforts rather it is natural outcome of the prosperity they have. Prosperity came first in the family, then came the small family norm. The same logic must be applied by the government in case of the poor voters. First the guarantee of prosperity then comes the result of family planning in poor families or governments should enforce this condition otherwise this allegation will be justified that the government have deliberately created the system of economic discrimination on the basis of birth and the government itself are encouraging the poor citizen to increase population. (vii) The population increase is curse for the society can’t be proved for two reasons. Firstly, the population of India in 1947 was three times less than that in 2000 whereas gross domestic production was four times less. It means that population increased three times during the 50-60 years but production increased by four times. This can’t be said that the increased lot of the population did produce nothing with their hands. Secondly, had there been any full proof measures in the past the sages, saints, politicians, literatures, artists, philosophers and scientists couldn’t have been produced who were fourth, fifth, seventh or tenth child of their mother’s womb. In view of this utility only the great men of almost every religion had encouraged the people to increase their progeny.
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(viii) That the said argument is the outcome of AB sensory conscience. The facts entailed in the above para (i) to prove that economic rights based on birth for the voters will decrease population instead of increasing the same as is being projected. The apprehension of increase in population is not well founded as the facts are contrary to the logic.
(C) The Poor Will Stop Working?
The logic that the poor will stop working if government begins to regularly refund their share to them from the common fund of the nation, can’t be accepted for the following reasons- (i) This is the principle of ownership that no condition which goes against the very principle of ownership or limits the same in any manner can be imposed on the right of ownership if the person concerned is enjoying the ownership of anything without creating any harm to others. Since the voters has his or her ownership on the amount proposed to be refunded to him or her, so imposing the condition for the voter that he or she will have to work for refunding that amount is just like the situation where Bank cashier imposes the condition before the depositor that he or she will have to work when he or she goes Bank to withdraw the money deposited in that Bank. Hence, the condition to work for the voter can’t be imposed as for refunding the amount of voter’s share as long as the principle of individual ownership is recognized. (ii) Parliament can’t impose the condition to work while refunding the share to the other voters out of economic heritage of the nation till it imposes the same condition to work before giving right to succession in movable and immovable properity through the succession Act to some of the voters who are progenies of some of the prosperous persons. Parliament if imposes any such condition it will be guilty of violating the principle of equality before law. (iii) That the amount proposed to be refunded regularly to the voter constitutes the share of the voter in gross domestic product which is produced due to natural resources. Refer to the part 3.3(h) of this petition for detailed information regarding the production related to the natural resources in gross domestic product. (iv) That the proposed cash amount to be regularly given to the voters as means of equality of economic opportunities is the part of their share in half of the amount of gross domestic interest. This amount is given to the owner of the principal amount and to the other persons who undertake labor. At least half of the amount of interest should be left as fees or tax on the income received without undertaking any labor so that this amount may be equally distributed among the voters. In this context this logic has proved unfounded that the people will not deposit their money in Banks if government takes half of the amount of interest from the owners of the principal amount to distribute among the voters. Had it been true the people should have stopped depositing their money in banks when the 18 percent rate of interest which was existing till 1998 was reduced to 9 percent. But no such thing happened. It proves that government may regularly refund a part of the amount of gross domestic interest to the voters and no condition such as one to work can be imposed against this refund because the said amount is not their emoluments rather it is part of their share. (v) The number of voters who regularly get amount of interest from the Banks is not so small rather it is a big number. These voters have utilized mental power also along with their physical power in the production. This proves that this logic is unbounded that the poor will stop working (and the rich voters will continue to work) if the voters get regular payment from the government. This logic reaches its own logic, these are contrary to one another, it denies the apparent evidence and this is the outcome of thinking of economist only, when receiving the
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amount of interest, the business based on the interest and making transaction based on interest is declared penal offence. Since the system of paying interest provides regular source of income without undertaking any work to the owner of the capitals, so the person getting amount of interest due to system become idle; this logic will have to accepted particularly when the same has been accepted in context of the poor voters. (vi) The amount paid by the Bank against the money running in market through the Bank is known as interest. Likewise, when immovable property like land, machine and house etc is assigned to market and the amount regularly paid on that account is called rent. This is another form of interest. If this argument is accepted that the amounts regularly payable to the voters may make the poor voters idle then the same must be made applicable on the rich voters as well. And that is why this is to be accepted that all rich voters who receive the amount of interest and rent have already become idle. Acceptance of this argument only may protect the principle of equality before law. If this argument is accepted in case of both then utilization of the said immovable property on the basis of the contract of rent will have to be declared as penal offence. If government doesn’t do this then it would be a proven fact that the government have deliberately put the poor voters under economic bondage and made them economic slave and they are being treated as domestic slave or domestic servant or domestic animal instead of domestic citizen. (vii) That some decades ago traveling 20 kilometers on foot consumed 10 hours. Now the same distance can be covered in half-an hour with the help of machine. The particular length of clothes in meter took 100 days while weaving it with hands and now the length of clothes is weaved through machines in a day. Such examples prove that machines have provided relief to the human beings from doing hard labor. With the help of machine a man can earn with one hour labor a day as much amount which may fulfill his basic needs such as food, clothes and house and for which earlier working for 16 hours was required. But to atrocious management of economy it is prevalent everywhere that the poor voters even today have to undergo arduous labor for 14 hours to fulfill his basic needs despite this fact that the machines have provided so much relief; whereas rich people and their children wander on luxurious vehicles and always indulge in entertainment. This proves that they with government’s help have disrupted the share of relief and moment of rest of the poor voters as provided by machines whereas every voter was entitled to get his or her in these moments of rest for mental and spiritual health. In fact, the amount of Votership proposed to be paid by the government to the voters is the means to give back the moments of rest the poor voters which have been snatched from them. Hence, the condition to work can’t be imposed in lieu of this amount to be paid. (viii) A very big change has come in the traditional conclusions of economic contemplation due to machine. The change is in this context that the contribution of land in gross domestic product is at gradual decline is on rise. The machine like computer is assuming the responsibility of the work supposed to be disposed of by the educated (skilled) fellows and on the other hand the machine like bulldozer is driving the illiterate laborers from the work market. Even there are such machines which with the help of only one driver can carry away the quantum of dust in a day equal to that of the 1000 laborers can carry away. 1000 laborers become workless because of this one machine. Their average wage a day at the rate of Rs. 80 per labor comes Rs. 80,000, Rs 20 lakh in a month and Rs 2 crore 88 lakh in a year. A single machine by snatching the amount of wages from the dwellings of laborers carries the same in the locality of machine owners and machine manufacturers. If the expenditure on the driver fuel and maintenance is deducted Rs 60.000 on account of driver Rs.1,82,000 of fuel (20 liter fuel at the rate of 25 per liter, the total expenditure on 365 days together). The total amount on the both counts comes to only Rs. 2,42,000. Even if other expenditures are added to it and the amount of Rs. 2,42,000 is enhanced to
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Rs. 88 lakh, even then the annual result of this is as such that the machine is causing unemployment to 999 persons and by snatching at least 2 crore rupees is giving the same in the hands of machine operators. The money proposed to be given to the voters is like compensation of this type arranged by the government. The condition to work can’t be imposed to pay this compensation because the production in the era of machine is no longer labor centric. (ix) That the above para (vii) proves that the people opposing economic right based on birth to the voters are persisting to impose the condition to work on the poor voters. They are not aware of the analysis of latest trends of economy. They don’t know this fact that giving economic right based on birth to the voters will not deviate the basic stream of production because machines have occupied its place in every field of production. Therefore, persistence to put condition to work is traditional, repetitive, callous and ignorant request. This request has not been made with well intention for the development. Hence, it is not acceptable. (x) That the code of conduct made in the world economy of 1994 has very deeply affected the relations between machine and laborers. Due to all the sections of the world trade agreement the sovereignty of the government of a country has become limited. The government of a particular country doesn’t enjoy the right to technical regulation now. The best quality goods with the lowest cost in international competition is possible only by adopting the highest technology. Undoubtedly the result of such technology is expulsion of laborers from labor market. In view of the jurisdiction and capability of the government of the country and the jurisdiction and capability of the world trade agreements the definite conclusion comes as such that to provide work has become out of the jurisdiction of the government. Due to ongoing international competition it can’t be hoped from the industry trade enterprises to get work. Hence, the persons persisting to impose condition to work with the amount proposed to be given to the voters don’t have any arrangement for giving work. Hence, there is no justification to accept their request. (xi) That in view of the limited sovereignty of the country and increasing power of the industry trade and market due to this and increasing use and number of machines, it is now certain that the tendency of expulsion of labourers from the labour markets will continue if there is no change in the status of these factors. Due to this the number of labourers will increase and market price of labour will go down in the labour market. It will go down to this extent that the labourers will be loosing their capacity to bargain. The more number of labourers loosing their capacity to bargain, the more number of them will be bereft of justice of labour market and they will be subject of forced labour. The amount proposed to be paid to the voters in the name of Votership is the means of providing opportunities for giving justice from market to all the labourers because labourers will come into position to bargain with the traders of their labour. It would be impossible to commit economic rape. Hence, the condition to work can’t be added with this amount. (xii) Thought if has been proved from the above para (viii, ix, x, xi) that giving work in traditional sense is not within reach of the government nor in the reach of industry-trade – enterprises. Even then if such argument is advanced that development work is possible only with the forced labour of the labourers and development will come to completely stand still if the government restricts the possibility of forced labour. There will be nine implications in totality if this logic is accepted by parliament of union of India. Firstly – “To commit rape with a person or community is valid conduct to achieve so called good result like the so called development.” Secondly- “In case of accepting the first conclusion, the provision of giving award will have to be made instead of awarding punishment to the offenders commuting rape on women.” Some of the rapists can prove that had they not raped the particular women, the design of bridge constructed on Particular River couldn’t have flourished in their minds. Such contractors and Engineers may
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demand to make rape the women as their fundamental right and parliament will have to enact one such law in favor of their demands for getting noble result like construction of the bridge. Thirdly, the upper caste people who believe in caste system based on birth will have to be given right by parliament to humiliate the people of lower caste, commit rape on their women and forced them to undertake labour because the upper caste people by referring the community faith may request as such that they have born in upper caste and rich families after they had undergone penance in their previous birth like those of the persons who are involved in the business of usurial and putting things on rent. They may advance arguments that they have got their birth right to lead luxurious lives and to commit rape on the women of lower castes in lieu of the penance they had made in their right for them. Fourthly, the logic to justify rape for getting good result may motivate parliament to give legal right to these dacoits who get the marriages of the poor solemnized with the money of dacoity, reduce the gap of economic disparity which is on increase in the society and lead a life of hermit in jungle discarding the luxury and enjoyment of women to commit dacoity, loot and murder anywhere. Such dacoits may demand that the local police may be deployed to facilitate them to commit dacoity etc and parliament will have to oblige them by enacting a law. Fifthly, any person or community may seek rights to kill the rapist which is good result and parliament will be compelled to make such law. Sixthly, if parliament accepts this logic that development work can’t tale place without commitng economic rape on the labourers then the claim of the industrialists, engineers, contractors and government official should not be accepted by parliament where they say that it is they who carried out main responsibility in development and therefore they are entitled to get reward for getting more money instead of the labourers. If development is going on with their help only, then the labourers should be asked to go on rest for even. If development can’t take place without the help of labourers, then discrimination shouldn’t have been made by parliament between them and the industrialists, contractors, engineers in giving remuneration and other reward for the development if parliament doesn’t take the least measure of enacting” legislation of Votership to end this discrimination even after presenting this petition before it, then it will be a proven fact that it favors the logic that force any one for any good work of choice is justified. It will prove that parliament is ready to extend undeclared exemption to the rapists. (xiii) That parliament in view of increasing role of machines in production and development by giving preference to human feeling over the persistence being made by the people who economic callousness and economic rape in the name of development should dismiss this argument that the condition to work be added with the proposed amount of Votership. (xiv) The people who are of the view that the poor voters will stop working after he begins to get regular cash amount are considering the poor voters though inadvertently as ox which after eating fodder doesn’t find it appropriate even to stand, it sits and closes its eyes and start chewing cud. The people who unconsciously believe the poor as and alternative to energy like diesel-petrol forget to differentiate between a man and an animal that an ox has only one stomach whereas a man has two stomachs ore below his throat which ask only for bread and other above his throat which is hunger for honour. The proposed amount of Votershipis to be equally distributed among the voters and there after too those will command more respect for them who have better economic means and facilities despite they get equal amount to be paid by the government. They will be able to mobilize the better facilities only earning extra income after doing extra work. The thirst existing in the human mind to earn honour will motivate him to work even after he gets the amount of Votership. Yes, he will not allow anyone to force him to work. This is
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the sign of the civilized society where force is least applied and forcible work is equally condemnable. (xv) That this forecast about the poor voters is the natural outcome of AB sensory conscience. (xvi) This has been considered as universal truth by the economic surveys and economists that three to five percent population appears all the time as unemployed in every society. As a matter of fact, they are born to proved emergency services by the nature, they shouldn’t be forced to work. (xvii) Six decades have passed since India became independent. The basic traits of society and politics have undergone a sea change during this period. During this period the literacy level of common man has gone up and character level of the majority of politicians due to tendency prevailing to adopt politics as profession has gone down. There is U turn of 180 degree in the attitude the politicians have had before getting political independence whereas the ruling system and economic system has been running on the traditional thinking only. As a result of this the entire government system created in the name of benefiting the voters of low income group was collapsed because large number of politicians, government officials and contractors possessed intention to get commission. The policy makers assumed the rule of policy destructors and become the central agent of political commission. Dutiful officials in government system came to minority and they become quite depressed and confined themselves to saving their jobs. The voice of value based politicians was lost in the din and bustle of rude politicians. In this situation the arms of so called welfare state got shrinking to this extent that the majority of the voters except high and middle income group got excluded of its compass and reached to the position of slaves. They were not considered as human being, they were to taken as oxen or bio-machines for work instead. There is not justification now to keep the politician their power of attorney in the matter of spending money on public welfare after such a change has come in this value. Now this has become necessary to limit the right of the politicians for spending public money and to put regular cash amounts in the hands of the voters. The addition of the condition to work with this amount is equivalent to the analogy of allowing the house owner in his own house with the condition that he will have to work for earning money to pay as rent to the hands of the tenants he had kept under the contract of power of attorney. The contract can be terminated in case the tenant does not use the property in proper manner. The voters had given rights to the politicians winning elections to spend their common fund on the items like education, treatment, ration, housing, clothes, transportation, roads etc on this ground that the politicians of the post independence era will be of same holistic nature as were the politicians of pre independence era. But the experience of the last six decades has proved that the politicians of the post independence possessed the nature quite contrary to their predecessors. In such situation the contract giving right to the politician winning election to spend the common fund of voters must be terminated and this amount should be sent back on the regular basis in the individual account of the voter. Addition of the condition to work with this amount is a foolish logic because by this logic the tenants will occupy the houses of the real owners in all other the country and they will be encouraged to add the condition for the owners to sweep and wash the housed instead of paying rent and they may tell the owners that “you may live in this house only when you keep clean he house and pay rent to me every month.” In view of the facts, logics and information, this plea can’t be accepted that with getting the amount of Votership, the poor voters will become lazy and the rich will continue work.
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(d) The Poor Should Be Given Poverty Allowance, not Votership to all (?)
The argument that the government may continue economic discrimination on the basis of birth among the voters, may not provide Votership to all, and give poverty allowance to the poor, can’t be accepted on the following grounds- (i) That by doing so the work of identification of the poor will have to be assigned to the government staff and officers, once the government machinery comes to know that the poverty certificate to be issued by it will allow the holder of that certificate to get some amount in cash every month, it will start undeclared auction of such certificate. Thus, poverty allowance will go in the pocket of corrupt officials instead of the poor. (ii) That the possibility of the above apprehension can come to an end in that position only when an alternative system of governance is established leaving the least scope of corruption in government machinery. (iii) That by making the voter as base, the amount to be given to him or her can be fixed as percentage of the birth share of a voter out of his or her average share in gross domestic product. Democratic values can be adopted in this process. Whereas the amount to be paid on the basis of poverty will not be treated as his or her right, rather it would be an alm to be doled out by the state. (iv) That giving something as an alm to the poor is acceptable in monarch; accepting the same in democratic rule will entail other changes which will become essential, for example making and end to election system and to adopt dynasty system to search for the king, the votership done away with and status of subject is to be granted instead, adoption of the system in which justice would be administered by the king family after dissolution of the judiciary etc. (v) That the expansion of the parties in multiparty ruling system depends on the money acquired through donation. The capability to donate this money lies only with the persons having certain level of prosperity. That is why the political parties in their tongue represent economic interest of the poor but in this deed, they are the representatives of the economic interest of the riches. So, in multiparty system of governance the majority of the voters do have this representative but they don’t have money representatives caring for their economic interest, the voter begins to get regular payment of a share from the common voter fund, the majority of the voters can think of regularly giving a part of the amount of Votership to the genuine representative who may be their well wisher. Through this system the loyalty of the public representative will remain for his or her voters which are diverted presently towards the persons who are donating money. Votership is a measure as well to strengthen the roots of democracy. Hence, this amount can’t be given only to the poor voters rather every voter has to be given the right to get this amount, refer to the chapters- 8,5(d), 15(b, d), 17(b) of this petition for detailed information. (vi) This is explicit from the above point that no political party and effective pressure group can be formed for showing genuine concern for the poor because they are not in a position to donate. The poor can’t get a dignified amount by the state in absence of any such party or an effective pressure group. Even if the law is enacted to provide some amount in form of alm, it will be affected by corruption for the reasons mentioned in the above para (i), certain amount will come out of the exchequer but the condition of the poor will remain same whereas by giving the right to all the voters to the amount of the common heritage, all of them will be encompassed under the security cover of democracy which will include the poor also. This system will undoubtedly lessen poverty. (vii) That the supporters of giving allowance to the poor or the opponents of the Votership are either so much innocent or ignorant that they don’t understand the science or intricacy of the governance and economy or are so call us who are in favor of committing economic
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violence or economic rape and want or stab back the poor but at the same time wants to take credit for showing concern for the poor also. This logic is not acceptable as it has emerged out of falsehood, cheating and inability or ignorance. (viii) That the logic, measure and sermons such as economic help to the poor, distribution of blankets etc and bearing the economic burden of the education of their children are not new but very old. Had these measures been effective, poverty should have been brought to an end by them. Hence, the logic of giving poverty allowance against Votership has not come out of the economic pain for the poor, rather it has cropped up of the concern for retaining privileges. This logic cannot be accepted due to possibility of cheating element involved therein. (ix) That the medicine of giving poverty allowance has proved ineffective and it has crossed expiry date. Hence, administering spurious drugs deliberately to the patient is a deliberate attempt to commit crime. The institution like parliament meant for curbing crime can’t involve itself in committing crime. Hence, this logic against Votership can’t be accepted.
(e) Votership for The Poor Only, Not For All (?)
That the argument that regular government income of Votership should be given only to the poor voters and paying one to two thousand rupees per month to the millionaires has no justification, can’t be accepted for the following reasons- (i) That the amount of Votership is to be paid not on the basis of poverty but it is to be paid in the capacity of being a voter. Since, the millionaires too are registered in the voter list, they can’t be debarred from getting this amount. This is the personal option as to whether they go to the A.T.M. every month to withdraw this amount or not. Voters not casting the vote can’t be debarred from right to vote, so is the case with the rich men who can’t be debarred from this right because they don’t have requirement of this tiny amount of Votership. As long as the rich men retain the right to vote, they can’t be debarred from the right of Votership. (ii) That the payment of the amount of Votership to the millionaire voters appears awkward because this income is very huge. But while considering this issue, of this fact became sidelined that the government will levy tax on these millionaires to give the amount of Votership. what is wrong in it if government realize two crore rupee as tax from one to two lakh people every year and returns two thousands rupee every month to them as Votership? (iii) That any discrimination can’t be made in paying the amount of Votership to the people in view of corruption prevailing in government machinery. Discrimination may be allowed in levying tax for Votership. The rich voters are liable to pay taxes as money is lying with them where the poor will give taxes from? (iv) That the poor voters will not be able to get the amount of Votership if the rich voters are debarred from getting the amount of Votership. Water is required for the crop field, and whether for this reason only water cannot be allowed to pass through the drains? Whether this logic can be helpful in carrying water to the field? Kuchha drain is to be filled with water if standing crops in the field are to be irrigated. And if this is as damage, then there is no way to avoid the same because another alternative is to give right to the bureaucracy to issue poverty certificate. With this alternative, the amount of Votership will reach to the mansions of the riches instead of going to the poor huts. The logics and information given in the above Para (i) to (iv) proved, that Votership will go out of track if the rich people are denied the right of votership. Hence, the honest and well-wishers should guard themselves against becoming victims of honey tongued conspiracy.
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THE ARGUMENTS RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATION
(a) Development Will Get Blocked (?) ………………………………………………… 21
(b) Will Not Get Money For Investment (?) ……………………………………… 22
(c) Work Should Be Given,
Not Money Which May Entail Development (?) ………………………… 23
(d) Employment Opportunities Will Come To An End (?) ………………… 26
(e) No Benefit To The People If They Get Rs One (?) ………………………. 26
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(a) Development Will Get Blocked (?)
To get acquainted with the following facts with regard to the definition of development before we scrutinize the apprehension that by gaining right of Votership to the voters development will get blocked. (i) That the person making such forecast considers glamour of towns, wide roads, flyover, bridge, multistoried buildings, shining cars the parks having costly maintenance in which much of electricity and water gets wasted are the only signs of development. Whereas the fact is this that only 30% population reside in big cities. Hence, this definition of development doesn’t cover 70% population which is a fault from the democratic point of view. (ii) The international definition of development is based on per capita consumption of goods. This can’t be taken as the definition of democratic development for the following four reasons- Firstly, that this illustrates a rich family having only three members who consume three lakh rupee per month and this consumption reflects as if one lakh people are spending three rupee per month. Secondly: this definition doesn’t take the real consumption made by each individual into account. Thirdly: this definition of development prescribes the index of per capita consumption but not prescribe the index of per capita enjoyment. Fourthly: This definition doesn’t contain any formulae of measuring the pain of economic disparity. Since the target of development is personal and joint enjoyment of an individual which is absent in this definition of development. Therefore development & index calculated on the basis of per capita consumption can be called a fake index or it can’t be called genuine or democratic index. (iii) The much-hyped definition of development has been prepared by that group of cats whose body weight is based on the reading of weighing machine. The great anguish of those mice killed for weight gain of the cats was not taken into account. The labourers represent mice and supporters of such development represent cats in the present definition of development. (iv) That the right of vote in the system of governance was adopted as a means to end the tradition mentioned in the above point(iii). The system of kingship in the past used to differentiate between human beings in the manner the difference between the two species mice and cats, farmers and oxen or washer man and ass. The present definition of the development differentiates between the labourer and other in the same way, therefore the democratic consciousness of the supporters of this definition is zero. The logic bereft of democratic conscience might have been acceptable to the system of kingship but such logics can’t be accepted in a democratic society. Had democratic society accepted such logic, the right to vote should not have been equally conferred on the labourer and the industrialist. And after the date of filing this petition, such logics are accepted, then the logic to re-establish monarch system should also be accepted. (v) The above point (i) proves that the democratic value of the product and service is proportionate to the number of voters using them. The voters having the opportunity to use them enjoy it and the citizen not having desire but having the opportunity bear the pangs of economic disparity. The people advocating for such reflecting development ignore this truth. That is why they begin to call the destruction of democracy as democratic development. (vi) That to force the person not enjoying the fruit of development to work for the development comes, in the category of committing rape on that person. The persons involved in the production work for development can enjoy in many ways. He can get biotic enjoyment in
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work. For example reproducing children, driving at will, exercise, playing games, providing administrative leadership to the subordinates in disposal of work, addressing the meeting, breast feeding etc. The person involved in production work can get spiritual enjoyment as well. Preparing food for the children, undertaking artistic, literary or investigative work of choice, propagating the ideology one likes, practicing meditation and yoga etc. The person involved in production work enjoys the stability at social level of livelihood during the coming days such as the amount left over after consuming the emoluments received from work, pension, provident fund, free medical and assurance to get food insurance etc. The person involved in production work enjoys ownership over the production as well such as constructing a house, weaving clothes for the family, working in private farm and producing in personal factory etc. Productive work may give hereditary enjoyment as well such as work for scientific and philosophical quest, doing some constructive work with visualizing the possibility for their children. If a person takes the benefit of all enjoyments his or her work in the name of development, he is getting extra benefit and the state should restrict his or her benefit and the person bereft of all such enjoyment must be compensated under the programs of economic justice. Such system of governance can pave the way for the development and economy- representing people will. (vii) That the development achieved through forced work and the produce manufactured at the order of money holder can’t be put into category of democratic production. (viii) That more the geographical disparity in terms of the distribution of the production used in the development work, the more undemocratic that development is likely to be. The people of Bihar working as labourers may construct multi-storied building in Delhi-Mumbai but they may not get their houses, culvert or the drains constructed in Bihar. Their status may not be constructed as dignified citizen, it may be treated as domestic servant or slave. The development made in one area at the cost of other areas in Metro cities is thus zero as the positive one plus negative one is zero. One multi-storied building at the cost of thousands houses would be called as reflective development only. A flyover at the cost of hundreds of bridges is nothing but reflective development. Thus any logic to retain the development model bereft of geographical justice can’t be taken as good sign. (ix) That the development bereft of geographical justice can’t be considered as development and in the same way, the development made without social justice can’t be termed as development. The reason behind this is that majority society of India is the society based on four communities lying vertical over one another. The distribution of development among these four communities is done on the principle of justice to the people on the lowest rung in the society created on the basis of caste system based on birth would be considered as development. If geographical justice in the distribution of development is present but justice to the lowest man is absent and the mansions only of the people belonging to upper caste get erected both in villages and towns then it should be construed as the distribution of development bereft of social justice. This model in the name of development can’t be defended. (x) That the geographical and social justice are given due consideration in the distribution of the said development and economic justice is overlooked, then this model too will bring Indian society again on the brink of feudalism from which India has not fully overcome. If economic justice is not taken care of in distribution of development and the tradition of giving power of attorney to spend the development money to the leader of the caste or the musclemen is continued, there is danger that the strongmen will grab all the money of development including the share of the weak ones and the strong leader of the own caste will force the weak men of the caste to work for refunding their share of money. This forced labour would be given the populist name such as employment.
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(xi) That the rates of wages are guided by the rule of demand and supply of the market and therefore they are not related to the gross domestic product. So, the money of remuneration on market rate may be called the emoluments of the labourer but that emolument doesn’t constitute part of the gross domestic product. It is like chaff of what to feed the ox but not the part of wheat. Hence, if the state doesn’t refund the amount in cash to the labourer, it would be treated as the model indulged in causing economic injustice; such model can’t be defended by a democratic society. The opposition, on the basis of logic that development would get blocked to the amount proposed to be paid to the voters in the name of Votership is not acceptable in view of logics, facts, information and analysis made in the above paras (i) to (xi).
(B) Will Not Get Money For Investment (?)
The logic that validation of the voters as their birthright to get regularly the payment of half of the amount of average fund of gross domestic product will not leave money for investment can’t be accepted on the following grounds: (i) This apprehension could have been correct if 100 percent amount of the average fund of the gross domestic product was proposed to be distributed among the voters. But the proposal is for distribution of only 50 percent amount. This logic is to be dismissed out rightly for facts have been misrepresented. (ii) That the present system of investment is guided by the proportionate capacity of the purchasing power of the holders instead of the people will. Therefore the request to defend this system of investment is anti-democracy. Hence, this is not acceptable logic. (iii) That the half of the amount of gross domestic product will be secured for investment for production of common need of the voters and half of the amount will be reserved for producing personal consumer items of the voters, hence it will establish a judicious balance between individual production and aggregate production. So it appears that the opposition to the proposal of Votership is indirectly guided by the motive of retaining the system of economic violence, economic rape and economic injustice instead of being guided by any genuine concern. Hence the apposition to the proposal of Votership on the logic of investment doesn’t deserve merit. (iv) That the entrepreneurs are inspired for the investment from national interest nor from public interest in the market economy rather they are inspired by the effective demand of the purchasers. Every individual with the amount of Votership will become a purchaser. His or her demand will acquire the status of effective demand. Therefore, investment would be guided by people’s will instead of the purchaser’s will. This would be an event of democratization of investment which is necessary to adopt the system of economic democracy. The imaginary logic such as dearth of investment is required to be dismissed for Votership is an effective means in achieving the ideals of economic democracy. (v) That the logic “country would be bereft of money to invest if money is given back to the people” reflects as if the money for investment are deposited before any concrete person or an institution like that of a country. As a matter of fact the money as being terming as investment money is not lying with the country, rather it is confined to the few capitalists. Calling these capitalists as country is committing an offence of deceiving the people. Therefore, the logic presented by such offenders cann’t be given a place in the state management. (vi) The half of the amount of gross domestic product proposed to be refunded to the voters as has been demanded in this petition will not vanish if the same goes in the hands of the voters they are not going to burn it nor will they bury it in the ground and nor the energy of the
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purchasing power is going to be destroyed. It is just being transferred. Therefore, the issue of lack of investment money is an ill-intended effort to exploit fear only, real purpose is to defend the economic violence and the economy of rape. Hence, the logic of lack of investment money against the proposal of Votership is not tenable. (vii) That the labourers are asked to sacrifice their interest in the name of development of the country projecting that saving is must for investment. When this money is given for public development work such as roads, bridges, rail, electricity, school etc, experiences have proved that the same amount is used in construction of grand mansions of few people and as means of luxury for them instead of constructing the roads by different ways sometimes as the way of commission, sometimes as the way of paying high salary in the name of giving prize for development, sometimes as the way to pay interest on the capital and all other possible corrupt ways. In such situation, everybody should be asked to sacrifice one’s interest, why the labourers alone. In view of this reality, this demand does not set the fine-tuning and this is not a tenable logic against Votership. The apprehension of lack of investment money against the proposal of Votership.
(c) Work Should Be Given, Not Money Which May Entail Development (?)
The proposal of Votership cann’t be rejected on the basis of the logic that people should be given money through work, not directly for the following reasons- (i) That the traditional meaning of employment can’t be applicable in world economy of the present era: (ii) That the domestic industry can compete in global competition with the help of modern technique. (iii) That the modern technique displaces labour forces, the contractors incurs loss if engage human work force, machine disposes off work early and there is scope of earning good profit. Therefore, contractor will follow government’s advice. (iv) That the above conclusions from (i) to (ii) prove that a large number of person will remain unemployed as it is not possible to give them work if globalization of market continues and the traditional meaning of employment remains in force. (v) The employment can be classified on the following grounds-
(a) Money holder i.e. the person having purchasing power may order the person not having purchasing power to do whatever he likes- that is the employment.
(b) The work to be ordered to the afraid people by the muscle men with his power of terror.
(c) The work undertaken with desire to look more privileged.
(d) The work undertaken to empower the person better than oneself to promote one’s interest.
(e) The work undertaken to empower one’s respected fellow.
(f) The work undertaken under inspiration of thirst for discovery.
(g) The work undertaken with the inspiration to become centre of respect.
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(h) The forced work got undertaken by the government machinery with a view to provide employment.
(vi) The most prevalent meaning of employment is related to the said (v.a) under such employment work is ordered keeping the holder of purchasing power. The requirements of the riches who are in minority and the people not having purchasing power transact the directed work like economic slaves. The work undertaken against one’s will under compulsion comes in the category of forced employment. (vii) The employment under the category of above point (v-a) is on decrease due to machines whereas other types of all employment have unlimited opportunities today and these are not likely to be decreased for the longer period in future. (viii) That the policy of not paying money to the labourer families and the exchange policy of giving huge money without undertaking work to the capitalist families by way of succession Act were formulated to retain the said employment opportunities and to transact such work. (ix) That to adopt other categories of employment has become unavoidable requirement of time in view of the tendency of decreasing in employment opportunities. (x) That the alternative inflation of finance communication as exchange policy has to be adopted if other types of employment apart from the mentioned in (v-a) is adopted as the employment of mainstream of the society. (xi) That if other categories of employment in addition to the above(v) (a) employment is to be adopted, then employment of all categories except 5(b) are opportunities for the both aggregate production and dignity of the individual. The society adopting these would be called relatively more civilized one. (xii) That the central policy of exchange will be based not on the work undertaken with hands but with the brain if alternative categories of employment is adopted. The restriction imposed on machines for undertaking work with hands must be relaxed. The families and the countries which work with mind are prosperous and those who undertake work manually are poor. Therefore, it should be planned in the manner that emphasis is on applying mind for work. The amount of Votership may not make the hands of the people active but it may make their minds more active. (xiii) That it would be essential on the part of the government to provide this much amount in cash to every individual from the common fund and the heritage money of the society to inspire every individual to undertake work. Which may be enjoyed by him and it may appear honorable to the people known to him if undertaking work with mind is adopted as economic policy. (xiv) That in the economic policy of the said point (xii) the burden of economic affairs of the government will be eased, it will be confined to giving guarantee of purchasing power to the people and the process of production of economy and work directive would become automatic. (xv) That the measure of Votership may be proved a practical measure of the said system of production, distribution, exchange and consumption. It is obvious from the information and analysis made in the said paras (i) to (xv) That the logic of giving work, not money has become irrelevant in the present era of world economy and hence it should be dismissed.
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(d) Employment Opportunities Will Come To An End (?)
The apprehension that with Votership ……employment opportunities will come to and end is unfounded due to following reasons- (i) That the priority of production of items and service will change that the ownership of the voters on the basis of their birth on the half amount of gross domestic purchasing power is accepted. (ii) That producing for the holder of the purchasing power on effective demand is the inherent nature of industry. (iii) That due to present economic policy the minority of the people have grand purchasing power where majority of them don’t have very negligible almost nil purchasing power. The priority would be given to the production of those items and services used by the majority of the common men if all the people will be equipped with the purchasing power with the measures like Votership. (iv) The production is made to meet the requirement of only 20% population in the present economy which is filtered to the 50% population. (v) That the production will start for 100% population not just for the 20% population if guarantee of purchasing power to the voters will be given through Votership. (vi) There will be at least two fold increase or maximum five times increase in the demand of commodities and services in the market if guarantee of purchasing power is given to all voters. (vii) That there will be five fold increase in the demand of facilities for education medical clothes cement traffic and communication and all sorts of new industries will be set up to meet these effective demands in which at least 1084 crore new employment opportunities will be created. (viii) That with the guarantee of purchasing power coming into force around 60 crore population of the country who don’t earn even one dollar a day will come into position to donate to the money representative with a view to promote their interest which will automatically prove the way for vertical separation of ruling power and at least 1, 03, 60,000 employment opportunities in political area will be created. (ix) That the entire lot of the people capable to undertake social management and character building are today slave of economic slavery and involved in exploring the possibility of job opportunity of the category of the point 5(a) and they will get involved in the work of character building after vacating these places the moment they get birth right of purchasing power by which pleasure of the society will increase manifold. The analysis of the above points (i) to (ix) proves that the demand will increase with the implementation of proposal of Votership.
(e) No Benefit To The People If They Get Rs. One (?)
That by distributing one rupee among the people will not remove their poverty and the deposit made for development will also have to be forgone, then what is the use of distribution one rupee to each in the name of Votership? This logic contained force in past but the present technical era has made this logic meaningless for the following reasons- (i) That this logic was coined in the history of the past when land and men were the main means of production. Now this logic has become meaningless as of now machine is the main means of production and electricity and petroleum has become main means of energy. (ii) During the past when this logic emerged, the value of produce was Rs 100 the number of men seeking money was in thousands. Now the hand made of iron i.e. machine has changed the
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situation. Now the number of people seeking money is in lakhs and the value of produce is in trillions. Therefore, earlier the share of money could have been Rs one or something like that in case of distribution of the same but now at distribution every man will get rupee in thousand every month. This amount definitely can remove poverty and raise their level of education and health. (iii) That alcohol upto the limit of 10 gm comes in the category of medicine but the doze above that becomes addiction likewise development is development to a certain extent and above that extent, it becomes biotic addiction for some people. Some people take pleasure in committing economic rape against the poor by giving them the legal reservation of poverty to them to mobilize infinite facilities of debauchery and entertainment in the name of development. Therefore, only in the name of development and surrendering before the biotic addiction of the same the vast population can’t be prisoned in poverty now. (iv) That the money collected in the hands of few in the name of development could have been held appropriate if development had taken place in deed with this money. But truth is this that these people indulge in consumption, enjoyment and debauchery to the suicidal level breaking national limit of consumption. Hence, the people believing consumerism can’t be given the opportunity of committing debauchery and economic corruption with the money of national development at the cost of bread cloths, roof education medicine bicycle of the majority of the voters. (v) That the huge money of the nation it entrusted in the hands of few people for the sake of development, then the reason behind calling by the holder this amount as their money or private property. Giving two names to the same money proves that the person calling the holder of this money as development agent its himself disillusioned and he doesn’t have any clear idea of the ownership and nature of this amount. If this is private property then making personal use of this amount in any manner by the owner or his indulgence in debauchery can’t be called wrong. If this is the amount meant for developing the nation then the personal use of any amount by the holder above average income is an economic corruption committed by the holder of this amount. Since this amount is being misused at large scale, hence this can’t be given the name of reserve money for the development leaving this daughter of development to the fake father and allowing her to sleep before him closing her eyes is dishonoring her grace. Hence, this situation can’t be allowed to go like this for long. (vi) That the person who calls the capital existing with the prosperous people, the fund for the development of the nation should say this as well that this money should be deposited in a body of the nation instead of keeping it in the private hands. The concern behind keeping this money in the private hands is for retaining the consumerism circumstances of the present holders of this amount. Either of the situations is valid; otherwise, it will be proved that the so-called development is dreadful annihilation of the poor and the environment indeed. (vii) That the money of development existing with the present holders and its ownership can’t be hold correct on this basis that the industrialists provide alleged jobs to the people with this money. This doesn’t held any meaning because in the present era of global economy whichever industrialist institution will set up industries with the priority of providing employment can’t sell items and services produced by it in the market because the same item and services would be available at the cheaper rate, provided by another company using less number of labourers and staff and automatic machines. That is why the goods manufactured with human hands cannot stand against those manufactured by machines. Therefore, the companies and the industries set up with the intention of providing employment is predestined to be closed in the present era. Today that industry can survive only, which provides least employment. That type of industrialist only can go ahead. Then to cherish hope that the present holders of the money of development will provide
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employment is either innocence or ignorance or conspiracy to retain consumerism of the riches. The huge money can’t be left in the hands of few people on the plea of providing employment with the possibilities of being ignorant on part of the conspiracy. (viii) That if it is appropriate to leave the national money of development in the hands of the so called industrialists due to this fact that they provide employment an examination system should be introduced to trace out the person who shows the capability of providing more and more employment with the least money and the money of development of the nation should be transferred to his hands. If a person after investing 10 crore rupee provided employment to 100 persons then this amount of Rs 10 crore must be transferred to the person who does have capability to provide jobs to 1000 persons with the help of same Rs 10 crore. Thus to hope from the industrialists of employment is the proof of ignorance as a worldwide competition is going on to end employment. It is proved from the pleas, information and analysis made in the above paras (i) to (viii) that by taking some amount from the holders of huge money as their economic duty and giving back these amount to the voters as their Votership will reduce poverty in fact and the levels of education and health will go up and the nation which has become dormant will be revitalized.
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THE PLEA THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE a) Govt. does not have money ……………………………………………………………………………. 30 b) Why The Rich People Will Pay Money As Tax For The Votership(?)…………………. 31 c) Government Officials Facing The Danger Of Losing their Jobs Will Protest (?) … 32 d) The leader raising the issue of self-respect will raise the issue of social justice instead of economic justice? ……………………………………………………… 33 e) The issue of social justice instead of economic justice? …………………………………… 34 f) Votership impossible in deficit budget (?) ………………………………………………………. 35 g) It doesn’t look appropriate (?) ……………………………………………………………………….. 36
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(a) Government Doesn’t Have Money (?)
By giving the plea that government doesn’t have money the implementation of the propose Votership can’t be said to be impossible for following reasons-
(i) That the entire money of domestic economy belongs to the government because the right to print currency lies with the government. But government doesn’t keep all money with itself and handovers the same to the people who in its opinion are useful or who do service to the nation. It keeps small amount with itself which is called tax revenue. The voters follow this principle that cut your coat according to your cloth but government adopts contrary principle that extend the length of your cloth as per the coat. If government takes the responsibility of giving Votership amount, it will extend the length of cloth. It is capable for extending the length of cloth i.e. it may increase the tax revenue. Since the amount involved in Votership is just half of the amount of gross domestic product and even if this half amount is paid back regularly to the public, the government still have the deposit of half amount of GDP for talent incentive and work incentive. Therefore, calling it impossible concept is due to lack of proper study. (ii) That after giving Votership amount all the money being spent heavily on the departments will be saved the people after getting purchasing power may purchase the facilities being provided by the government at present from the market. All the amount being spent on the heads such as health, education, local roads, transport, food security, clothes insurance social security, social welfare will be saved. By transferring this amount in the fund of Votership there will not be any need to levy more taxes. Hence, it can’t be said that tax has to be increased heavily for giving Votership amount to the voters. (iii) The ineffective demands on the part of the citizen will change into effective demands with the Votership amount. With increase in demand the manufacturers will be assured of the sale of the items they produce. This assurance will increase production. There will be flow of money in economy with increase in production. That is why the plea of shortage of money can be given by them only who have not studied the positive economic impacts of this proposal. (iv) That suppose there are 10 rooms in a house and 2-3 people only reside in that house. That number of people may reside comfortably in two rooms. A large portion of the house is not being utilized. If the rent of the two rooms at market rate is Rs 2000, then the utilization of the house can be made to the extent of Rs 2000*5= Rs 10,000. If through competent legal arrangement that house is utilized by 10 persons instead of 2-3 persons the government can imprint the currency of the value of Rs10,000 instead of Rs 2000. With this new currency reaching to market flow of money will increase in economy and there will not be any price-rise. Hence, better utilization of national property is possible provided, unkind and cruel people having liking for committing economic rape are systematically removed from the scene. Better utilisation will increase volume of the currency level which will become source for the amount of Votership.
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The analysis made in above paras (i) to (iv) proves that the implementation of proposal of Votership can’t be termed as impossible by giving the excuse of shortage of money.
(b) Why The Rich People Will Pay Money As Tax For The Votership (?)
The implementation of proposal of the Votership can’t be termed as impossible on the ground that the people will not pay the tax even if it is imposed as because- (i) That this is wrong to say that the people will not give their money to the government for providing Votership amount. First of all government can take back its money from those whom it has given through the legislation related to succession, interest and rent and send that money to the original owners i.e. the voters. Therefore, it is wrong to say that government will seek money from the people. But the fact is this that the government will take back the money on behalf of the voters, which basically belonged to them in the same way as the house owner takes rent from the tenant and take back home in case of non-payment of the same. The voters had handed over their money to the government through power of attorney as they considered that it would be beneficial for them. The government passed on that amount to the sons of the rich men. The rich men with the connivance of the persons who run government started to utilize money as per will of the purchasers instead of acting on the will of the voters. The voters after knowing the truth cancelled power of attorney and sought back their money. Therefore not paying tax levied by the government to pay back the amount to the voters on their demand means dishonesty. The punishment for not paying tax would be same that is awarded in case of dishonesty. Since punishment for dishonesty is already provided, therefore people will pay tax for the Votership. (ii) That it is obvious from the above point (i) that the government may realize money by punishing those who are liable to pay tax but they want to misappropriate the money of the voters. If the persons running the government are themselves bent upon committing dishonesty for the money of the voters despite the voters cancelled the power of attorney, then the voters may be compelled to form a parallel government against the alliance of the promoters of the government and those refusing to pay tax or seek justice by raising the case before the world arbitrators, may be that all these steps will have to be taken together by the voters. So, the people can’t refuse to pay the amount to the voters by saying that this is “their money” or “tax is much more” etc. (iii) The financial responsibility as to be fixed by the government for the voters having income above the average national income to pay back the amount to the voters can’t be called ‘tax’ for the three reasons. Firstly the amount of Votership has to be paid to the voters after realizing from the prosperous voters. Therefore, the amount taken by the government can’t be called as tax. Secondly earning income more than the average income is only possible when economic loss is incurred by those who earn less than the average income. Thus, the amount of Votership is amount of compensation, not tax. Thirdly, it is called tax when government charges it for providing facilities. But government after taking money pays back the same money (does not spend itself), it can be called “economic duty”, not tax. (iv) The major share of the amount being charged by the government at present is being spent to make the rich richer or is becoming prey to corruption. Tax payers think so and to the extent their thinking is correct one. That is why the people feel pain in paying tax. They feel that government by imposing tax on them is committing rape on them. But when money would be charged for the purpose of paying amount of Votership, the gentlemen will happily pay the amount as they will consider this aspect that the amount will reach back to every house. Therefore, this is
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not the right forecast that people will not pay even in the name of Votership. Only such people will refuse to pay back the amount of Votership who rejoice in plight of others and exclaims with sorrow in the happiness of the others. But the society will not protect the interest of those who can’t rejoice the happiness of others. Hence it would be appropriate to behave with such few people who are inclined not to pay back the amount of Votership in the same manner as is done with the dishonest one. Such people will definitely follow the law of paying back the amount of Votership for the fear of provisions of punishment. (v) That it will be proved that the government is not sovereign institution in case if it doesn’t pay back the amount of Votership to the original owners i.e. the voters, it surrenders to the tax payers or it become helpless. Then it would not be binding even on the poor voters too, to follow the rules, laws and orders of the government. The voters can release their money from those who are misappropriating their money if government keeps itself out from the scene. History has always shown that what result came after government left the office. (vi) That private property begets ‘his / her own money’ in anybody’s case whereas illegal occupation of the property of the state by the courtiers after monarch came to an end is the original source of private property. The analysis made in the above points (i) to (vi) proves that the Votership amount will to be refunded by those who are owning this.
(c) Government Officials Facing The Danger Of Losing their Jobs Will Protest (?)
There will be no longer requirement of the government ministries and departments after refund of Votership amount to the people, therefore the officials engaged therein will come on street in protest and they will emerge victorious as they are economically well off. The implementation of the proposal of Votership can’t be called impossible on the ground of this plea that the voters will get defeated for they don’t have capacity to donate. Following are the reasons- (i) That the government employees will not become jobless for two reasons. Firstly, they can take voluntary retirement in lieu of some amount and they can start their own business. Secondly, they may be transferred in the proposed machinery of the south Asian administration if it will be acceptable to them. Thus, the question of their protest doesn’t arise when they are not going to loose their jobs. Refer to the chapters - 8.17 and 9.3 b(v) (vii) of this petition for detailed information. (ii) That the possible number of beneficiaries of Votership is around 60 crores and it would be difficult for one and half crore government employees to face the protest from such large number of beneficiaries. If the government employees don’t co-ordinate with the justified demands of voters who are in such large number then they may change the rule and can transferred political power in such hands that are bent upon uprooting the bureaucracy of the government sector. This danger and risk will check the organized power of the government sector from opposing the proposal of Votership. (iii) That the above points (i) and (ii) may not be applicable on few officials. But their number would be too less to obstruct the judicial proceeding of Votership. (iv) That most of the officials in the government sector belong to the class third and fourth employees and their number is around 75 percent. The wives of these officials will come in support of the Votership because they lead the lives of domestic maids as the salary of these officials is not
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much. They will not allow slipping of the opportunity to get economic self dependence at any cost. The husbands will not sustain the protest from their wives and sooner or later they too will come in support of the proposal of Votership. It is proved on the basis of the above points 9(i) to (iv) that the apprehension regarding the protests from the government employees and possibility of their coming victorious is unfounded and the implementation of this proposal can’t be said to be impossible on this ground.
(d) The leaders of dalit and backward class will divide the voters (?)
The apprehension that the leaders of dalit and backward class will demand Votership for the voters of their own caste under a conspiracy and sabotage the judicious action of Votership by dividing the poor voters can’t be held true for the following reasons- (i) That the person born as a boy can’t become a girl. Because the person waging the war of self respect for his caste, creed-religion, favors internally the economic rape being committed on the common men belonging to his caste region and religion. The leader struggling for his social self-respect is engaged internally in enhancing his personal economic self-respect, as he doesn’t consider the economic self-respect of the common men of the country as important. The leader supporting the proposal of Votership may be an exception among the groups of such castiest leaders, because the struggle for Votership is in fact, struggle of economic self-respect for all. Barring few exception the remaining leaders can’t be so much effective that the voters will be prey to their conspiracy. As a boy can’t do the acting of a girl for long so in the same way castiest leaders can’t do the acting of being economic well-wisher of the people for long. They will be exposed gradually and the voters will be polarized toward the new leadership. (ii) The fight for social self respect is not in fact meant for the society rather it is meant for the leader himself who leads such fight. Every voter will choose the option of economic self- respect because with the betterment of his economic condition his social self-respect will automatically get enhanced. Whereas choosing the option of social self respect by them will enhance the economic condition of their leaders only they will remain where they are at present. They will be doing the same work they used to do. They will remain instrumental in enhancing the honor of their leader only till they change their work and raise their living standard. The honor of their leader gets increased because of his economic betterment. And even the animal is not so foolish that the economic and social self respect of the leader of his or her own caste is to be enhanced at the cost of one’s own economic self respect. (iii) The castiest leaders succeed in persuading the voters only when the voters don’t have clear option to enhance their own economic self respect. Now there will not be any crucial and communal polarization of the voters because there is clear cut option of Votership before them. Even if there will be some polarization that would be so much scarce that it has little impact on the main stream. (iv) That now there is requisite number of educated fellows in each village and locality who understand and explain difference between caste and nation. The proposed right of Votership can’t be confined to the people of any particular caste, creed, region religion. The leader of the caste can provide Votership to the men belonging to his own caste only when he is entrusted with the right to imprint currency. This can be so only when the people of his caste with their strength may make him Prime Minister of the country or they carve out a separate country in which all the people of their caste settle together. There is not such possibility, firstly because there is not a single caste in the country population of which is more than 50 percent. The second reason for not
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having such possibility is that they will be bereft of the co-operation of the other people remains in the parent country if they happen to carve out a separate country for them. Thus, they will not find money to pay the people leaving aside these two possibilities there is the third possibility in which such leaders may submit representation to the government that it should provide the Votership right only to the voters belonging to their caste. Such memorandum will not be acceptable to the government because the government has not been formed by them only. (v) That new generation of leadership emerges with the new idea. This generation will neutralize the propaganda of such castiest, regional and communal leaders and the boat of Votership may get staggered for a moment but it will not be allowed to sink by leaders of new generation. (vi) The above points (i) to (v) proves that the proposal of Votership can’t be defeated by the casteist, communal and regional leader by raising their voice that the Votership right should be confined to the people of their caste only.
(e) The leader raising the issue of self-respect will raise the issue of social justice instead of economic justice?
That the leaders who attach much importance to racial, communal and regional self-respect will dismiss the proposal of Votership on the ground that Hindu society is based on caste system. With social disparity coming to end social disparity will automatically come to an end. There is no need to implement the proposal of Votership. The conclusion of the leaders raising the issue of self- respect can not be acceptable due to the following reasons:- (i) Had the forecast of the castiests communal and regional leaders been true then the economic disparity in the nations like Europe and America where the system of social justice has been established already, could have come to end. There is no social system like caste system in these nations. In that sense social equality has come there. Even then economic equality has not established there. This proves that separate effort has to be made for economic equality as it is not within reach of social justice alone to produce economic justice as well. Hence, the above conclusions are parts of conspiracy against Votership and economic justice or sheer ignorance. The above forecast can’t be held true in both situations. (ii) That the proposal of Votership can’t be dismissed by raising the issue of caste system because caste system is not painful for anyone in classical sense. It is painful in pragmatic sense only, caste system is based on birth in practice. Had it based on work, it would have been acceptable. If minutely observe, one can find two types of caste system- one is social caste system due to which sons of the Brahmin get status of honor with their birth. In villages even the old ones of lower caste bid adieu to the sons of the Brahmin of much lower age. On the other hand the sons of the lower caste father become subject to insult in reserved form with their birth. They are asked to sit on the ground below the cut life long. Second one is the economic caste system due to which the progenies of the rich men are given the status of richness by the government through succession Acts. The government keeps the poor children hunger so they may be made victims of economic rape in terms of so called development. The way the government makes the sons of the rich as rich and the sons of the poor as poor on the basis of birth today, so in the same way the sons of the feudal lord were used to feudal lords and the sons of the agriculture labourers as the agriculture labourer. This was in fact, economic caste system (Varn-vyavastha). For that reason only feudal lords remained feudal lords from generation to generation and the workers from generation to generation. As the children of the feudal lord used to observe their father scolding, abusing, beating and humiliating the labourers. They inherited that habit. They too behaved with the
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labourers of their generation in the some manner. They forced the workers to wish even their small children. They could humiliate those labourers socially because they were owner of land and the labourers worked in their fields under compulsion to feed themselves. It is obvious that if the feudal lords are not acquiring lands due to economic caste system (Varn-vyavastha), they couldn’t have humiliated the labourers working in their field from generation to generation. This humiliation is like the pain but the disease there of lied in that tradition of economic caste system (Varn-vyavastha) on which basis the sons inherited the property of the father without undergoing any labour. Till date many movements were launched against this pain but no movement has been initiated against that disease which is causing this pain. That is why even today the son of a billionaire is supposed to be billionaire through the succession Act without doing anything and the son of labourer is to be labourer only. There is not much difference between the humiliation a person belonging to the date Dalit society suffers and a labourer faces. This humiliation is going on even today. Not only tradition of society but also the succession Act duly enacted by State Legislatures and Parliament is responsible for this humiliation. This analysis make it clear that the movement against caste system can be run honestly only when both type of caste system (Varn-vyavastha) i.e. the traditional and the move like passing such discriminatory Act is attacked. If a person gives speech against pain and protests diseases internally, it should be construed that he is a conspirator like that doctor who is interested in treatment of pain only, not disease so that his practice goes on. If such bogus and conspirator doctor protest the proposal of Votership by saying that economic justice will established automatically with social justice taking place. Such move can’t go on for long. Such will be swayed away by the extreme power of money emanated from the amount of Votership. Only those persons will acquire prominence who favors eradication of both the social caste system (Varn-vyavastha) and the economic caste system. Votership is a measure to eradicate both. (iii) That the leaders involved in regional politics will not oppose Votership because it does not discriminate on the basis of region. The Votership amount is to be given to the people of their regions equally. The same thing applies to the leaders involved in the linguistic issue. (iv) That the ill effects of social disparity can be effectively checked by erecting political structure under the Antyodaya policy for the judiciously management of the vertical social set up created by caste system (Varn-vyavastha) based on birth. This can be said on the basis of analysis of the above points (i) to (iv) that the leaders raising the issue of social self respect will not succeed in their protest against Votership. Hence, caste walls will become weak due to Votership and the proposed of Votership will be implemented as the opponents will not succeed in their move.
(f) Votership impossible in deficit budget (?)
By pointing out the debit budget, the implementation of proposal of Votership can’t be held impossible for the following reasons- (i) That the budget of government of India controlled from London before political independence used to be the budget of profit. After independence, the policy of deficit budget was deliberately adopted so that the government of India may not be turned as ‘India company’ by someone. The policy is still going. Shortage of money is not the reason for this as many of the people think. (ii) That, according to the suggestions given in this petition the amount of Votership comes from gross domestic product not from the current revenue budget of the government.
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It is proved from the basis of above two paras that the plea of budget deficit against Votership is very shallow. This proposal can’t be termed as impossible on the basis.
(g) It doesn’t look appropriate (?)
It doesn’t look appropriate that Votership will be given to all. For this inappropriateness, the implementation of this proposal can’t be held as impossible because: (i) The world at large had even not believed the scientist who had invented airplane. The people were not ready to sit in the airplane in the beginning as they didn’t believe that the same could fly. But as a matter of fact, airplane came into existence and the impossible task became possible. (ii) The scientist Gallileo when said that the Earth is round and it revolves around the sun. The people were of the view that the Earth is flat and the sun revolves around it. The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. Even today the Earth appears flat to the people. But they had to accept this fact that the earth is in round shape. For the eyes it is of flat shape but for the mind it is of round shape. The educated one too had to believe this fact. (iii) No one had ever thought a person can view a scene from the distance of thousand miles away but television and radio made this possible by which a person can hear and view a thing from miles away. (iv) Mobile telephone and internet made the impossible dream true. The persons living apart hundreds miles away interact with one another. Mobile made all these things possible. (v) The scientist, Kepller had made a prediction that an object thrown towards the sky at the speed of 10.2 kilometer per second will not fall on the ground, it will swing above into the sky. That prediction proved true after invention of launcher. The satellites thrown towards sky with the help of launchers did not fall back on the ground. Those satellites remained in the sky and due to those satellites radio, TV, Mobile and internet are working. The impossible concept that the stones thrown towards the sky will not remain therein, became possible. (vi) That many political inventions also came into being together with the scientific inventions as mentioned in the above points (i) to (v), which too were not relied by the people of past as for example almost no one believed that the son of an ordinary person will sit on the throne instead of the son of a King. But the conventions of the elections made it possible. A few of the people have had ever thought that the English Empire in which the sun not set in, would be confined to a small state. But this happened, the English left India and returned to their native country. Likewise, had anyone ever thought that the government will allot fund directly to the Gram Pradhans and the villagers will develop their villages with that amount. But this became possible. (vii) The persons normally don’t believe about any new discovery or invention made in the area they are not associated with. The proposal of Votership is a sort of new invention in the area of public finance. The people will begin to believe on the Votership in the same way they believed in the other things. (viii) For some people Votership is possible proposition, but they consider it appropriate one. Though they find it appropriate but they by taking opposite view want to divert the attention of the people. (ix) That if the majority of the people believe and support the proposed Votership, they will see the light of happiness in the lives after the execution of the same. The people will definitely believe and support this because there is no harm in doing so. Terming it as inappropriate is the natural out come of the feeling of AB sensory conscience.
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OTHER ARGUMENTS AGAINST VOTERSHIP
(a) Country is already burdened with loan? ………………………………….. 38 (b) Darwin’s theory “survival for the fittest”(?) ……………………………. 38 (c) Impossible task(?)…………………………………………………………………….. 39 (d) There will be price rise (?) ………………………………………………………… 41 (e) It Will Be the incentive for Sale And Purchase Of Vote (?) ……….. 42 (f) Encouragement to the reservation ………………………………………….. 43 (g) The corrupt persons will misappropriate even this amount (?) .. 44 (h) Such System Is Not Prevailing In Any Country Of The World (?) ……………… 44 (i) A Traders Will Have To Their Losses (?) ……………………………….…… 45 (j) The Labourers Will Not Become Available For Work (?) ……….….. 47 (k) Votership should be given to those only who cast vote …………… 48 (l) The guarantee of minimum needs should be given not Votership……………………………………………………………………………. 48 (m) Decentrilised Economy Should Be Adopted, Not Votership? ……. 50 (n) Economists are against Votership? …………………………………………….. 51 (o) Economic data are simply jugglery (?) ……………………………………… 52 (p) The people of tribal areas will not be able to withdraw Votership amount from ATM machine (?) …………………………………. 53 (q) First of all a seminar on the Votership must be organised to evolve consensus among the intellectuals (?)……….. 54 (r) Mandate should be sought through elections for Votership(?) …. 55 (s) No solution to the problems only planning to create pressure? … 57 (T) Concept of votership is against the federal structure of Indian constitution, so the support of regional parties is very difficult? ………………. 58 (U) A proposal to boost greediness in society …………………………………. 60 (V) Problem of environment can not be solved by votership? ………… 61
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(a) Country is already burdened with loan?
The country is burden with loan cannot be made ground of rejecting Votership right of the voters on the following reasons- (i) That the person giving this plea hides this fact that every child born in India becomes the owner of average per capita income also not only of loans. This plea is also a conspiracy because its tell above the loan but hides above the income. Therefore, this plea against Votership cannot be considered. (ii) That if government returns this share of every child in average national income, then the amount indulge in the Votership only for three four months may repay entire debt of the country. However, the plea that the country is burdened with loan is used against the poor voters only. When money is snatched from the poor voters then they are not liable till repay the loan of the country. Therefore, the loan of the country cannot be accepted as an obstruction against Votership. (iii) That whenever in family is burdened with loan then every member of the family reduces his expenditure particularly on luxurious items. As the government has forced the labourers of the unorganised sector to reduced their expenditure but it is not of pressurizing the prosperous voters of the country to reduced their expenditure with a view to repay loan of the country. The country is burdened with loan yet people are leading luxurious lives and enjoying in five star hotels, fuel is indiscriminately misused on air traffic. Country is nurture with a loan a man is traveling in a car in known and wasting fuel, creating traffic problem and yet billions of rupees are expend on construction of flyover one after another at the cost of house of the poor voters. This is proved from disevidend that the government doesn’t have an intension to repay loan of the country because there is possibility of getting commission in the interest of this loan to whom run the government. Second reason is this that the institution in the name of government is not in fact a ‘government’ because it is not sovereign body ‘it has no control over rich voters. In view of this truth the allegation of not paying loan is levelled against the government or the rich voters of the country who spend more than average national income. Therefore. on the basis of arguments poor voters cannot be made victim of economic penalty by snatching the right of proposal of Votership. The punishment of the wrong deeds of the rich voters to the poor ones will proof the board of arbiter rule and it will be duty of every citizen to rebel against such rule. The above point (i) to (iii) that the plea of the burden of loan on the country is a plea of an ignorant fellow who is quite unaware of economy of the country. Therefore the plea is not expectable
(b) Darwin has said- the fittest will survive?
The theory “survival of the fittest” hypothecated by the scientist, Darwin cannot be accepted against proposal of Votership or the following reasons- (i) That the great scientist Einstein overrules the above theory of reliability, that is why the theory of Darwin is now only a concept of his own. This is proof of ignorance who have faith on this quashed theory. (ii) That at the theory of Darwin being correct and applicable in human beings the human society should not at followed this co-existence of human civilisation. Reasons of this is that there could have been internal conflict in different races of human being. In that case first of all the weakest man could have been killed by the next stronger man. Again that stronger man could have
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been killed next stronger man, in this way only one man the omnipotent should have been allowed to live on this earth, rest could have been killed. Since on this earth not only few but six billon men are since alive. Therefore, the theory of Darwin is incorrect apparently. And the incorrect theory cannot be accepted against the proposal of Votership. (iii) There are many qualities in human beings. A man is strong in certain qualities may be weak in other qualities. The man appear weak in some matters may be very strong in other matters. Any person is not strong in every field and nobody is weak in every field also. Therefore, the theory of Darwin can be applied more on the animals but applying with on the human being is either a sign on ignorance or advocacy of wasted interest, or a conspiracy orurge to safeguard the rubbish economy and political set-up. This is not a varied about against Votership. (iv) The poor voters being considered as weaker persons and theory are suppressed with the poising of economic shortage in the name of the theory of Darwin are not in fact weak voters. They were given assurance by the architects of the state that they should stopped committing theft – dacoity - loot – murder by renouncing their natural live style. This work given by different names by the architects of the state and the architects of the religion. The state count it crime, the religion count it immoral or emplaces (ADHARMA). The state had assured them to fulfill their needs and it was said by the state that it is constituting police and army for their security. They assured to use the power of police and army as their security cover in case of requirement. The state refused till fulfill this assurance it had made it self and the religious teachers adopted the path of – “ don’t see evil” that is let go, the poor are at loss, they have been cheated by state and by the religious teachers. They cheated many times to even the great scholars but it doesn’t mean that those scholars were weak. The state of cheating cannot go on long. The poor voters appear as weak get united apprehending about cheating and then no one appears so strong than those united voters. There have been such instant in history. Therefore, they approach of suppressing the poor voters through economic shortage taking them, so called “weak” cannot be accepted by judicious society and a judicious parliament. On the basis of facts of the above in (i) to (iv) the theory of Darwin against the Votership must be dismissed.
(c) Impossible task (?)
That the proposal of Votership by terming it impossible cannot be dismissed because- (i) That the person calling it impossible can meet two ends. Firstly, it could have made immature remark without fully studying the issue. Secondly, that it could have deliberately adopted this weapon of protest against Votership (safe from the punishment of mass protest). In both situations, the plea of being impossible cannot be taken as adequate reason for rejecting the proposal of Votership. (ii) That equal treatment cannot be given to the above two types of people. The person due to having less knowledge terming the proposal of Votership as impossible should definitely have been working in the line of that category of this movement , which advocates to give one fourth amount of the per capita average domestic product instead of half of the amount as Votership right. Such person may term half of the amount as impossible but at the same time he might be struggling to make the one fourth of the amount possible. If he is doing such thing then he is not rejecting the basic proposal of Votership. (iii) That any person, organisation or any state government or legislature or the government of a country or parliament of that country is making an afford to put the amount less than 25% of the gross domestic product as birth right of the Votership for the voters, then it should
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be deduced that the person concern, the organization, government or legislature is being inspired by its own personal ambition and it is not being guided by observing the economic rape on the voters. This ambition can be of many types. As for example it may be ambition to enjoy power by securing ones membership in parliament or state legislature. It may be an ambition for getting a hefty amount from those who indulge in committing economic rape or it may be the ambition for acquiring publicity for the media house run by such people. It may be an ambition of the opposition party to enjoy power after the ruling party goes out of power. The person by raising the voice of limiting the amount may prove himself more practical and thereby he may acquire prominence in that field. The afford to reduced the amount proposed to be given to the voter may be a conspiracy to subotive this judicious action because they will not invite the wrath of mass protest and at the same time amount would be two less to arouse any zeal among the voters. Whatever little amount one may get will have to pay to the corrupt government official in the same way water flown through non-cemented drainage to irrigate the field is absorbed by the drain itself and the field gets nothing. So the law regarding Votership is made on the basis of less amount, it will meet the same fate the field meets in the matter of getting water. It will not end the slavery of the voters, rather they will be continuously becoming the prey of economic injustice and the basic purpose of Votership will get defeated. The effort and any such plea of giving less amount to the voters in the name of Votership should be rejected because it is a conspiracy to defeat the basic purpose of Votership and any such afford should be discouraged. (iv) That the English did not consider Indians eligible to rule and make judicious utilisation of money before union of India had gained political independence. That is why the English were of the view that they were obliging Indians by ruling India. Therefore they had assured to give education – health- food-house to the public but never had they made any assurance to give money directly, whereas all these things are acquired through money only. They were adopting the contrary step because their thinking was based on this proposition that the Indians are like those children that anybody can grab the money if the same put in the hand of such children. Therefore, the monetary share of India in revenue should be spent by the government of India based in Britain. After gaining political independence the first prime minister of India, pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had rejected this plea and he began to spent money directly from Delhi in place of London. Nehru and Bhim Rao Ambedkar through constituent assembly got such constitution drafted that the right to spend money of the voters was extended to the state governments beyond Delhi. Thereafter in the last round of Nehru’s rule and during the Shastri’s government to right the spend money was reached to the district level, thereafter it was extended in block level and now to the village level. Now the proposal of Votership is urging to go a ahead to the last step. Through this proposal, money will be given back to the original owner in every household. The person calling this proposal of Votership which is marching ahead with toeing this line with history as impossible does have a very little knowledge of history. Therefore, on the basis of this plea advanced by such person the proposal of Votership cannot be dismissed by concluding it impossible. (v) That this plea is the natural thinking of the people of having middle point between AB and O sensory conscience. If this issue of Votership gains momentum then the person of such group will come in the role of that community which is very flexible and come in support of this judicious plan. The plea of terming impossible is just an effort being made by them to save themselves from exerting their energy in this judicious implementation process. (vi) implementation of the prayers made through this petition for more information regarding possibility –impossibility of the implementation of the proposal of Votership. (vii) That there may be some honest person as well who may term the Votership as impossible because they don’t have capability to understand this issue. Some people find it
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impossible to open even a betel shop and there are some people who established big companies in few years. There are many competent people apart from such people who are terming its implementation impossible who can implement this proposal of Votership. Therefore, this cannot be said that it is a impossible task. The above points (i) to (vii) proves that the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected by terming its implementation impossible.
(D) There will be price rise (?)
That the prediction that there will be price rise if Votership right is given to every citizen with a view to check the economic discrimination based on birth, cannot be held true on the following grounds – (i) That there is a rise in price only when the quantum of currency is stable in economy but there is a downfall in production or the quantum of production is stable and the quantum of currency gets increase. If we observe deeply it becomes obvious that 60% of Votership amount will change the real demand of the poor voters into effective demand. Around 37 crore new customers will be available in the market of union of India for purchasing different items. A large-scale production of commodities and services will have to be undertaken to meet their demands. Since workforce is available for the production and there is recession in the capital market, so establishment of production centers in large scale is quite possible. New possibilities of production will open with new demands rising in a market therefore only such person can predict of price rise who is affraid of any structural change or he may be strong supporter of economic violence. One possibilities as such also that the person might be utilising this prediction as a weapon against the Votership to shield oneself from the punishment of mass protest. Or one could have made sudden remark without undertaking sufficient study of the issue of price rise. Therefore, the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected by taking this prediction true. (ii) That it is clear from the above analysis that Votership may create effective demand in market and with the availability of workforce and capital the level of production and employment will definitely go up. Therefore the price rise will come down instead of going up after the people get Votership right. Even currency will have to flown out in large scale to make the sale and purchase of the new products and new services possible. Therefore, the outcome of Votership will be contrary to be price rise and there is no justification to except the prediction of price rise against Votership. (iii) That the poor voters will not get affected with price rise because the proportion in which value of currency goes down with the currency flow will be given to the poor people in the name of Votership and thus they will get additional currency. Therefore, the plea of price rise and its adverse impact on the poor voters cannot be accepted. Refer to the chapter- 7(4,5) of this petition related to the economic explanation for more information on this subject. (iv) That the effect of price rise can be neutrilised easily by giving dearness allowance with the amount of Votership to the poor voters. With this allowance economic justice can be achieved because price rise is for all today but only the employees of government sector and organised sector get dearness allowance. Since dearness allowance can be sent very easily with the amount of Votership so the prediction of adverse impact of price rise on the poor is meaningless and this plea against the Votership cannot be accepted.
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The prediction of price rise cannot be held true against Votership on the basis of analysis made in the above points (i) to (iv) and even if there is slight increase price, its ill effects can be neutralise by giving dearness allowance.
(e) It Will Be the incentive for Sale And Purchase Of Vote (?)
That proposal of Votership as means of economic democracy can’t be called sale and purchase of vote on the following grounds (i) That Votership will enhance people’s faith in democracy. Therefore, this is not to correct to say that the proposal of Votership will weaken democracy as the word sale purchase of votes appears to be. (ii) That with the increase in gross domestic product, the amount of Votership will also increase and with decrease in production there will be the decrease in the amount of Votership also. It will strengthen economic nationality. The people will be inspired to produce for the nation, not for themselves. The people will get united for increasing gross domestic product because they will find that they too have their share in the increased amount. Since the amount of Votership is related to domestic product, it is not related to the personal income of the candidate contesting election. Therefore, the allegation of sale and purchase of Votership against the proposal of Votership is meaningless. (iii) The data of election commission clearly shows that the people’s interest in casting their vote is declining. Normally the 45 to 50% voters cast their vote i.e. less than half of the voters show zeal for voting. When casting of vote will gain importance and some amount would be given by the government regularly to the voters, then the percentage of the voters casting their vote will not be less then 92-95 constantly. Therefore, charge of sale and purchase of vote is incorrect. The real danger lies in the tendency of declining interest in casting votes, and there will be U-turn in terms in the situation with the provision of Votership. It will expand the arena of democracy now. It will not be duty only of the government to protect democracy but every voters will act as a conscious watchman of democracy. (iv) That if sale and purchase of a thing serves the national interest (and that nation had already accepted the market where sale and purchase exists) then its sale and purchase is not bad. Only the result of this sale and purchase can be questioned. As a result of Votership, the voters will become very much concerned that they will not cast their votes just for a pouch of liquor or a hundred rupee note or a sari or for such petty thing, they are not going to do any such thing for which they will have to lose the right of getting regular amount of Votership for a year. Even an animal is not so ignorant to consider the voter worse than animal is an evidence of undermining the importance of human being. As a matter of fact the sale and purchase of the votes going on at present will get completely checked as a result of Votership. Their reaching on the polling booth will capture the very votes. Casting the votes of the absent voters by bogus means will come to an end because there will not be any possibility of bogus voting now onwards. In view of the arguments, analysis and facts produced in the above points (i) to (v) the plea of sale and purchase of vote cannot be accepted against the proposed Votership.
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(f) Encouragement To The Reservation (?)
The importance of Votership on the basis of encouragement reservation cannot be rejected for the following reasons- (i) That the main participation of the voters particularly poor voters is essential and the amount of Votership cannot be considered an obligation on them. Therefore, the charge of encouraging reservation is not applicable to the Votership. (ii) That the amount of Votership to be paid to voters as national inheritance can be taken as economic reservation only when the property inherited by children from their father has to be traditionally taken as an example of economic reservation. The society which takes the inheritance of the property of father on basis of blood relationship as legal one, doesn’t have moral rights against the national inheritance. Therefore, the arguments of encouraging reservation against the proposal of Votershiph as been made without any thinking and it is just a remark only, this is not an argument at all, which should be considered to be accepted. (iii) That the charge of encouraging reservation would have been accepted only when there were a tradition of not believing in it by the Indian society. Whereas fact is that the ideals reflected in the Indian religious texts might have been establishing case system on the ground of their deeds but in reality the cast system of Indian society has been going on the basis of birth only. When some of the persons have got reservation of honour on the basis of their birth. And some of the persons have got reservation of insult also on the basis of their birth. When the sons of the rich person have got reservation of richness on the basis of birth, poverty is also reserved on the basis of birth for the sons of the poor. Then there is nothing new in the right of Votership on the basis of birth, which should be rejected by leveling unreasonable charge of encouraging reservation. (iv) That the proposal of Votership cannot be proved as unconstitutional on the ground that it encourages reservation. The reasons behind this is that the articles 19 and 340 of the constitution provide reservation for the communities belonging to ST /SC socially backward classes of India, the basic intension behind this provision is to include this community in the main stream of development, which could not be fulfilled on the basis of the provision of reservation only. The population of this community is around 16 core and their growth rate 5.5 i.e. 88 lakh people are added to the number of ST /SC community every year, whereas total no of jobs in government sector is 150 lakh and 80 lakh in organised sector. The private sector and government sector taken together constitute total number of jobs as 230 lakh, if 15 percent of jobs are to be filled among by the ST /SC community, the total 34.5 lakh jobs can be acquired by these communities. This number is less by 60.79 percent in comparison to the number of persons born every year. It means 53.50 lakh new borns are being added to ST /SC community every year, who have got reservation for not getting jobs. The erstwhile population of 16 crore is included in this number, who didn’t get jobs. These are the 16 crore people who are reserved for not getting job, if check the number of families which have got reservation facilities, maximum number of such families will be 70 lakh, which have got reservation and they are uneducated and therefore, if the children of the rich families belonging to ST /SC community and the children belonging to the poor family of this same community appear in the same competitive examination, there is predetermined result that the children belonging to the rich family will be selected and barring a few children belonging to the poor family of ST /SC community will not succeed in getting job. The proposal of Votership will be an effective measure for including these unsuccessful and jobless people belonging to ST /SC community in mainstream. Therefore, this proposal is as per the spirit of article 340 of the Constitution of India and which provides assistance till achievement of that object. Therefore, it cannot be proved as unconstitutional by saying that it encourages reservation.
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On the basis of arguments, information and analysis laid in the above point (i) to (iv), the proposal of Votership cannot be considered as unconstitutional and improper on the ground that it encourages reservation.
(g) The corrupt persons will misappropriate even this amount (?)
That the amount of this Votership will be grabbed by the corrupts and the persons indulged in brokering. Therefore, the amount will not reach to the needy even after giving the right of Votership such apprehension is unfounded for the following reasons- (i) That the above charge might have been correct if ATM i.e automatic teller machine could not have come into existence. This machine has been used by the rich people till date. This machine can be used now for the evolution of economic democracy. ATM machine can be installed in every village, locality, petrol pumps, railway station, post offices, schools, banks etc. The voter by inserting his or her cash card can withdraw the amount that without the help of any middle man. There is least possibility of corruption due to this arrangement. (ii) That the conspiracy to protest the Votership can be made in the name of the argument of corruption. If the issue of corruption is raised as way of conspiracy, then accepting this argument is equal to giving green signal to this conspiracy. (iii) The proposal of Votership cannot be rejected by giving importance to the possibility of corruption more than the requirement as because this plea cannot be accepted till those government machineries are not closed where corruption is seen. (iv) That the institution giving benefit to the rich persons like police and army are not closed on the basis of possibility of corruption, where as the proposal of Votership is rejected on the same ground. This would be an unjustified decision which can be taken by an individual or parliament or the government which is anti poor voters. (v) That the ministries and government departments, public and social institutions which are places of corruption and those are going on in the name of poor will lose their relevance when the proposed amount of Votership is to be given to the voters. With closer of these departments corruption will come to an end to a greater extent. Therefore, the proposal of Votership should be encouraged with a dream to end corruption instead of leveling charge of encouraging corruption. The plea of corruption against the Votership cannot be accepted due to unfounded allegation. The analysis of the above points (i) to (v) makes it clear that the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected on the ground of apprehension of corruption.
(h) Such System Is Not Prevailing In Any Country Of The World (?)
The system of proposal of Votership is not prevailing in any country of the world, cannot be made basis of rejecting this proposal for the following reasons- (i) That the unemployed in many countries of America and Europe are paid this much amount by the government that they can maintain even car with that amount, though this is true that no such proposal of the Votership is prevailing anywhere in any country of the world. But this is not a valid argument that only such work should be adopted which is already prevailing in any of the country of the world. This is the thinking of timid people who cannot undertake any discovery or invention. Such persons go to utilize it when invention is successful. This argument against Votership cannot be accepted because it has arisen on the thinking of timid persons.
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(ii) That western countries which are supposed to be copied by India are not facing this same challenges which a developing country like India is facing. A person suffering from headache will not intake medicine for pain in stomach. The main problem before the western countries like America is as to where this surplus amount received on the basis of labour of the developing country should be invested to? Whereas the countries like India are facing the problem as to how the poverty of majority of their voters may be removed? The question is as to why the western countries will quest for proper medicine for India and adopting the same when they are not suffering from the disease India is suffering? No other country is as big as India from the democratic point of view if the western countries are left apart. Therefore, this is the responsibility of the country like India to quest and to demonstrate the economy and governing system which may be beneficial to the developing countries of the world. Since the proposal of Votership provides an opportunity to India to lead for making the entire world beautiful, so the same proposal cannot be dismissed on this childish plea that Votership is not prevailing in any other country of the world. (iii) That the quest for new thing, the quest for novice idea everyday has been lying in the Indian tradition. Therefore, the proverb “Leek-Leek gadi chale, likahi chale kapoot, ,that the heroes make their own ways became so popular in this country. Therefore, much hue and cry cannot be made for this that India by questing Votership, adopting and demonstrating the same is going to present a new example, which should be avoided. The civilized society cannot go on such thinking and such views. Therefore, the proposal of the Votership cannot be degraded by advancing the argument that it is unique. (iv) That the Brazil government has already assumed ATM cash card to its poor voters and had started to pay the amount of cash to the people for public welfare. The Sri Lankan government had started giving 5 kg rice per capita many decades ago i.e. the governments of those countries have withdrawn the condition to work for the voters to feed them. The analysis made in the above point I to iv proves that Votership is not in use in any country of the world and on this ground only the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected.
(i) A Traders Will Have To Their Losses (?)
That the prediction on losses to the traders cannot stop the emergence of governance and economic democracy through Votership for the following reasons- (i) When voters will get money in the name of Votership, they will go to the nearby shop to spend that amount to purchase something on that amount. This will enhance these sale of the shopkeeper and traders by at least two times more than the present sale. There will be 20 times increase in sale of some of the shopkeepers. More the sale, more the amount of profit a trader will earn. The profit will increase with the increase in sale. Therefore, its prediction that the traders will have to bear losses on account of Votership is incorrect. As a matter of fact they will be benefited by two ways. Firstly, all the voters of their family will get Votership. Secondly, there will be increase in their sale if customer’s pockets are full of money. Thus, this argument is not acceptable that the traders will protest against the proposal of Votership. (ii) That the system of exchange at present is undemocratic and unscientific because this system of exchange works likes a blind man. This system creates a huge amount that the industrialists by investing that amount creates a huge production as such that the people don’t have as much amount to purchase these items. As a result of this the products go wastage in want of purchase and ultimately these products are thrown in dustbin. The situation does harm even to nature and the society doesn’t get benefit from utilizing these products contrary to this situation the prevailing indiscriminate exchange system allows little to some of the manufacturers for
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investment whereas real demand of the product manufactured by them is more. People want to buy those products but not having requisite amount of investment for product in spite having real demand. In the economic language, this real demand is called ineffective demand. With beginning of the system of Votership, it would be possible to change real demand into effective demand. Production units of the products are not set up because there is a dirth of money among the consumers. With amount of Votership the people will get, the production of economy would be streamlined with people will. Thus the Votership is a quota or distribution in gross domestic purchasing power. It will pass on in the hands of traders from the voters and that amount in turn will reach to the manufactures for investment. This analysis makes it clear that quota for distribution mechanism in purchasing power will get reserve through Votership. As a result of this there will be increase in economic power of the traders and the economic process will become more scientific and democratic. Thus the provision of Votership is in favor of traders and it cannot be proved that it is against them. (iii) 90 percent of the traders belong to the category which has been analysed in the above point (ii). There are only 10 percent traders who sell their items in other countries instead of selling their items in the country. The remaining 90 percent domestic traders have to incur loss because of that 10 percent global traders. The situation reached to this extent that the business of some of the domestic traders is destroyed and they commit suicide. The reason behind this is that with the new technology the cost of production of the same product is very cheap is some part of the world and the global traders present in the country start importing those products and send foreign exchange in the other hand countries and on the other hand the same product is manufacture in the country are not sold in the country because of their cost of their production is high. The domestic traders involved in the business of these items are thus ruined. For example the cost of manufacturing carburetor of scooter in India is not less than 100 rupees whereas the global traders present in India import carburetor of the same quality from the countries like Thailand and start selling in just 60 rupee. In this situation, the global traders earned huge profit and the domestic traders involved in the business of carburetor got ruined. The relation between these categories of the traders is that of the shark fish and general fish. Small fish take this starfish as their leader and get assembled at a place to show their unity and the starfish attack these small fish and eat the entire group of small fish in one go. The relationship between domestic traders and the global traders is like that. The proposal of Votership is beneficial for the domestic traders, may be this Votership may adversely affect the global traders because with the amount of Votership. In India the global traders involved in selling their products in as other countries may be adversely affected as their business may not go in the same pace because the labourers will seek more wages than the earlier and the cost of production of the goods they sell will also increase. As a result of this, the demand of the items in the other countries particularly in those countries where government will not start giving Votership will go down whereas the items being sold within country will in the greater demand and the business of the domestic trader involved in selling of these items will gain momentum. This analysis proves that the proposal of Votership make adversely effect only 2 percent global traders. Therefore, it cannot be said that this Votership will degrade the value of the items being sold by all the traders. So, this argument cannot be accepted. (iv) Please refer to this chapter–5 of this petition to understand to international impact in better way. The analysis made in the above point (i) to (iv) prove that the Votership will cost good effect on the domestic traders and therefore, they will support this. It also proves that the guess that it will be harmful for the traders, is wrong.
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(j) The Labourers Will Not Become Available For Work (?)
That the proposal of Votership cannot be oppose on the basis of this apprehension that labourers will not become available because such apprehension doesn’t have any ground of the following reasons –
(i) That this apprehension has emerged of the same thinking which creates this apprehension that the poor voters will stop working after they gets Votership amount regularly.
(ii) That the apprehension that the labourers will not become available for agriculture work is also not true. This is not the apprehension of the farmers rather this is the apprehension of the feudal. The person engaging labourers in agriculture work takes cultivation as a industry and he has no moral right to get sympathy of a genuine farmer gets who work hard in the field of feeding himself and his family gets so easily. No scientific analysis can be made with regard to agriculture labourers and farmers without differentiating between feudal farmer and trader farmer. Votership will definitely affect the status of agriculture labourers who will get now somewhat better wage which will improve their economic condition. When the wages of laboures will be more definitely the heaps of agriculture produce would increase and since the economic condition of the laboures will get improved all over the country. So the situation will not be as such that the labourer may be available in some places and they may not be available for other places. With the payment of the amount of Votership there will be an increase in the demand of food grains and with this increased demand it will be possible to produce more and that produce will be sold easily at profitable price. Therefore, the result as a whole will be as such that the condition of the labourers will get improved and the economic condition of the farmers also will get improved because of the large scale sale of their product at higher prices. Today in the economic structure of the economy the labourers are lying beneath the basement and the farmer is on the first floor. With the implementation of the proposal of Votership the farmers will go up to third floor and the labourers will come on the first floor from the basement. But this apprehension is the baseless that labourers will not be available to work. (iii) That this argument can be natural outcome of AB sensory conscience. It is apparent on the basis of the point (i) to (iii) that this apprehension is baseless that due to Votership labourers will not become available and this plea against Votership cannot be accepted.
(k) Votership should Be Given To Those Only Who Cast Their Votes (?)
That the plea of giving Votership to the voters only who cast their vote cannot be accepted for following reasons- (i) That if the Votership right will be given to those voters only who cast their votes on the day of polling, then the objective of checking poverty and population and increasing educational standard cannot be achieved because the influential persons of the area will not grant leave to the labourers on the polling date. The labourers will not go for casting their votes at the cost of their jobs. If this plea is accepted, such persons will lose their eligibility to get Votership amount. Therefore, this plea cannot be accepted.
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(ii) That with imposition of essential condition for casting the vote will enhance violence on the polling booths because some persons will go to any extent for not allowing their enemies to reach polling booth of enmity. It means that the clash between the families can reach to the polling booths. Therefore, the condition can be imposed for casting votes for the nominal amount i.e. 5 to 10 percent of the Votership but imposition of same for the entire payable amount would be improper. (iii) That the educated and prosperous and educated people avoid going to cast their votes, not the poor. If an attempt will be made to increase the voting percentage with be motivation of giving some amount, the small amount of Votership may be wrong not attract the prosperous people to the polling booths so this estimation is about that the condition of casting votes and the amount of Votership which in together will compel even the prosperous persons to stand in queue to cast their votes. In fact, the prosperous people will be compelled to cast their votes only when some stringent measures such as cancelling their votership or snatching their rights to property will be taken. (iv) That every voter has his or her share in the collective property of the nation irrespective of the fact he or she casts vote regularly or not. Please refer to the chapter-13.4 of this petition for more information about the collective property. (v) That giving political right in the name of vote to the citizen’s inheritance and giving right to legacy in name of property of one’s father are two different things. A person when gets the right of economic legacy beyond a certain limit from the government, the right to vote is meaningless for such person. Therefore, he is not motivated to cast his vote. In view of the circumstances and the principle of equality of economic opportunities, it is quite reasonable that the person getting economic power in inheritance beyond a limit may not be given the right to vote and he is not entrusted with this right. He is not the required for cast his/her vote nor will there be any expectation on him for casting his/her vote. In fact, the relationship between citizen and the state is relationship in series or parallel line; and this cannot be moved forward in this era of globalizations without finding the same. The question is as to whether right to vote should be given to the rich men or not, cannot be solved till the said definition is finalised. The analysis made in the point (i) to (v) makes it clear that the condition for casting vote cannot be imposed with the Votership.
(l) The Guarantee Of Minimum Needs Should Be Given, Not Votership.
That by advancing the arguments of minimum needs, the proposal of Votership cannot be dismissed for the following reasons- (i) That the fulfillment of basic needs is a feudal thought which pleads that this is the duty of the king to ensure that the subjects are getting two times meal everyday or not. Whereas the situation in democracy is just opposite. As it is subjects who keep vigil on the needs of the king in democracy. Therefore, it is possible in democracy that the voters in view of the minimum needs of the government may leave half of the amount of their share in the average national income. But it cannot be allowed in democracy also that government should consider the voters as its subjects and make an arrangement for itself and its machinery to lead luxurious life and seek report from the doctors, i.e, the department of social and preventive medicine the minimum need of the voters which are necessary for saving their lives. The mentality of fulfilling minimum needs to is like looking down the voters as domestic servants or domestic animals. Hence, the society having a democratic consciousness cannot accept this, even to say democracy as subjectocracy is a
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dangerous proposition because it appears from the sound of this very world that the people are still like subjects of the king. (ii) That the democracy entails a conspiracy of protecting privileges of some people. If there is no such conspiracy on the part of few people. A person willing to set up justice will not support the arguments of fulfilling minimum needs of the poor rather try to evolve such an order of economic policy that would be able to ensure minimum economic equality in spite of the guarantee of minimum needs. Therefore, the person advocating of minimum needs might be innocent fellow or he might be administering sweet poison against Votership. In the both situation the argument of minimum needs cannot be accepted as alternative to Votership. (iii) That suppose the minimum needs may involve today Rs10 per day and per capita income of per day is Rs 50. The condition of economy gets change; and the average income per day increase on Rs 50 to Rs 500 per day. Then does it mean that the poor should get Rs 10 only per day despite prosperity coming in the country by such a big amount? Think of the others condition. If the average income comes down from Rs 50 to Rs 8 per day, even then will the government hire loan of Rs 02 at per head from the foreign countries to pay Rs 10 to the poor as their minimum needs? It is obvious that it may create ludicrous situation if minimum needs are not associated with gross domestic product and if the same is associated with the same then it would be termed as the minimum share or minimum equality line instead of calling it minimum need. It is clear that the argument of fulfillment of minimum needs is unscientific and illogical. Therefore, it is not acceptable. (iv) That the consumption level of every member in the family gets decreased with rising the level of poverty and the level of consumption gets increased with the rising of the level of prosperity. It doesn’t happen that the head of the family leads luxurious life and avoids the minimum needs of the other members of the family. And they can’t say like this that consume half bread in the morning and half in night and sleep on the straw to save your life. As matter of fact, a democratic country is extended form of the family. Therefore, the words like gross domestic product domestic income, domestic policy, and domestic consumption are in use. While analysing the country one considers it as a house but while speaking on the issue of poverty alleviation if he playes the tape of minimum needs is a sign of unclear, ignorant and misguided person. The entire politico – economic systems have got disillusioned because of accepting the argument of such person. This is the primary responsibility of the planners to reduced the presence of such arguments to the minimum in the present system so that such half baked logic cannot be accepted. (v) That the major of fulfilling minimum needs taken by the government could have shown its effect till now because this is very old measure. Now this measure is like that medicine which date has expired, which can be adopted by a person is a conspirator and believing in creating drama to deceive to the people in the name of poverty alleviation or who is willing to acquire power. This argument is unacceptable as it has become an expired argument. On the basis of analysis made in the points (i) to (v) the arguments of guarantee of minimum needs cannot be accepted as an alternative to the proposal of Votership.
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(m) Decentrilised Economy Should Be Adopted, Not Votership?
That the question of Votership does arise because of centralized production system. Therefore this should not be adopted at all in place of Votership effort should be made to decentralize economy”. This argument cannot be accepted for the following reasons- (i) That the centralized economic system has not been created by an individual rather it has been created by technical inventions made on time to time. And this is the incident beyond an individual approach. That is why only an ignorant fellow can utilize his energy in preventing such thing. (ii) The centralized production system emerged due to specifications of the production, which cannot be controlled. Therefore, this argument can be a move of conspiracy to divert the attention from the issue of Votership, so this is not acceptable. (iii) That such arguments may be a natural outcome of rightist economic ideology. Due to some genetic reasons, some people feel the economic civilization of past quite attractive. The argument of decentralized production system can be motivated for such genetic fascination. Therefore, this argument cannot be accepted. (iv) That such decentralized production system is possible only when the sources of energy like electricity, petroleum, the things like canal, roads, chemical fertilizer etc. are removed completely from economy. These are the things which create centralization of production system this could have been made possible in past when population was very low and the main source of energy was human labour and animal labour. Since animal labour and human labour cannot fulfil the need of present population, so decentralized production system could have been the facts of past but it will be remain as dream for the present and future, it cannot be concrete shape. That is why, this argument cannot be accepted as this is a dreaming argument. (v) That the trend of economic history is against this argument, therefore, this argument is not acceptable. (vi) That many of the persons who present this argument don’t understand themselves as to what they are saying after all, because they advocate decentralized production system on one hand and they advocate national strength also on the other, which is definitely gained through the international competition of gross domestic product and growth rate. These contradictory statements prove that the person advancing this argument is himself of mental uncertainty. Therefore, by accepting their argument the entire system will get trapped in uncertainties. (vii) That the decentralized production system is impossible, whereas decentralized finance system is possible through Votership. Therefore, if to provide economic justice is the intention behind the word decentralized production system, and the proper wording is decentralized finance system or decentralized exchange system. And if the intention behind going after the word decentralized production system is to retain economic rape, then this argument is not acceptable. (viii) That this issue can be utilized as weapon against Votership and securing its position. So its aim appears different, therefore this argument is not acceptable.
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The analyses made in the above points (i) to (viii) prove that decentralized production system can’t be considered as an alternative to Votership.
(n) Economists are against Votership?
The argument that the economists are against the proposal of Votership because this proposal is not in the interest of Economics. The proposal of Votership on the basis of this argument can’t be rejected for the following reasons- (i) That there is not any universal and scientific formula to decide as to who are these economists. When the very existence of economists is controversial, then the conclusion given by such person will definitely suspicious. Therefore, the doubtful conclusion cannot be taken as adequate basis for dismissing the proposal of Votership. (ii) That if the person who reads Economics books or the person who teaches those books are to be considered as economist, then those who study philosophy and those who teach philosophy will have to be taken as philosophers. If this is the case, then the souls of the philosophers like Roseau, Plato, Marx, Lohia….etc theme will cry. If the persons involved in study and teaching philosophy are to be considered as philosophers then the lakh of persons who have graduated with philosophy as a subject will have to be taken as philosophers. In this way the very meaning of word of philosophy will lose its relevance or it will get changed. Therefore, the remark made by such person i.e, economist cannot be considered as the remark made by a specialist. (iii) That to understand depth of any subject which is a born quality which never depends on college degree or diploma in that subject. Classical knowledge and its feeling is an inherent intellectual product. Therefore, the remarks made by the university professor against Votership cannot be considered the remark of the economist. (iv) That if secret voting is conducted among all the persons involved in teaching Economics as a subject in the country, then it could not be so that all votes go against the proposal of Votership. Suppose some votes are cast in favor of Votership, then who will be consider as economist the supporters of the Votership or opponents of Votership? In such situation who deserves punishment the supporter or opponent or education system giving degrees to them? The proposal of Votership cannot be dismissed simply because some of the so called economists have opposed a proposal till the consensus is evolved on this issue. (v) That there is division among the economist based on public finance and other subject which involved economic contemplation. Therefore, the people belonging to specific social groups getting benefits from the government in power held any economist right or wrong by making an estimate of their personal profit or loss. The persons involved in study and teaching of economics who advocates the policy of government are considered economists and the persons who raise the matter of distributive justice are held ignorant of the subject of Economics. It is clear that every ruler as per its nature keeps a group of tamed economists who are regularly paid by giving the status of the professor or the officer. Therefore, if the conclusion drawn by such fellows, which is much hyped, are in fact the conclusions of their vested interest. This should not be taken as the conclusion of specialists in any manner. (vi) That the so called economists give suggestion from time to time regarding providing adequate employment for all and making the country as a developed one. If a condition is imposed as such that those will be hanged if their predictions go wrong or the so called economists will be made jobless and retain them poor. In that case, they will modify their conclusions and if this experiment is tested, there will be thrilling experience and it will become clear that they don’t describe about economics but the money they get in lieu for advocating privileges of very few
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people. Since this is the voice of money, not the voice of economics. Therefore, the statement of the opponents not be called the statements of economics. (vii) That a professor of economics in university or an officer working in government sector or a journalist working in a field of journalism, can’t draw a line of division himself as to which extent his remark is an outcome of his or her own sense of economics. And to what extent it is the outcome of the sense of defending his or her economic privileges and benefits? He is not even aware that his voice opposing the proposal of Votership is the outcome of the sense of the variety of impulses moving of through his nervous system. If a person will be an economist in a real sense, and he will let his intellectual analysis with this dimensions than he will avoid making an official remark as in the capacity of an economist on the proposal of Votership. (viii) That had the country could have been run through the opinions of the economists, then the responsibility of preparing budget, the right of implementing the same should have been assigned to the departments of economics of the universities. Parliament shouldn’t have retained this right itself. Since this is not so, therefore, the opinion of the economists can’t be taken as decisive opinion on the subject of Votership. (ix) The proposal of Votership since its serious issue related to the right to life of the people, therefore, the final decision on this can be taken by independent public referendum, or by parliament, but not on the view of the economists.
The basis of the points (i) to (x) proves this fact that only opposition made by the economists to the proposal of Votership can’t be termed as sufficient ground for rejecting the proposal.
(o) Economic data are simply jugglery (?)
That the data of the government and the non government agency related to the subject of growth rate, per capita average income, per capita purchasing power, gross domestic product etc are not true rather it is simply a trick and jugglery of those persons who are involved in fulfilling the formalities or survey. Therefore, the ambitious scheme for distributing Votership amount among the voters cannot be formulated by relying this data. By accepting this conclusion this is not possible to forsake the legislative process of regular distribution in the name of Votership of the amount of rent of their share in the rent of the property of economic legacy of the nation to the voters, for the following reasons- (i) That even if the data is to be taken as fraud and the deception of some of the agencies, nevertheless the lands, machines, houses, modes of transport, capitals in different forms cannot be called the deception and illusion. These are concrete truth which can not be overlooked. The amount of Votership will be created by proper utilization of the capital and property lying unused by the competent legal provisions and competent institutions. Therefore, this proposal cannot be rejected so easily by simply calling the data as jugglery. (ii) That the persons considering the data as jugglery, make use this weapon against those measures only like Votership, which is brought out before as the economic betterment for the common man. Therefore, the intention of such people becomes doubtful. If such persons in reality considered the data as jugglery, then they could have utilized scrutiny of the data to look into the matter of development and should have made an effort to dissolve all the departments related to the ministry of statistics and figure. Therefore, defect may lie in percentage of data but 100 percent data cannot be fraud, the deception and the jugglery.
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(iii) That the information regarding average income of a nation and average loan is to be provided through data only. If the average income of the nation is a fraud of data then the average loan of nation is also an illusion. If average income is not there, then there may not be average loan also. If the average income is more on the counted at more than the correctness of data. Therefore, the loan amount is described more than real one in data. To refer the data in the matter of average debt and to tell data is as jugglery the matter of average income creates doubt on the intention of the person concerned. Therefore, this is not acceptable. (iv) That there are two meanings of jugglery. One is to tell less than the truth in the matter and the other meaning is to tell something more than truth of any matter. If data are jugglery, then another possibility may be this also that the amount in reality may be many times more than what is described in data about the average income and average production of the nation. Truth will come out only when any government will initiate action to implement the work of Votership by placing at priority. Therefore, this is not the right time to utilize the plea of falsehood of data against legal process of Votership. Pleas refer to (7g) of this petition to know in detail about this subject. (v) This is apparent on the analysis of the above para (i) to (iv) that the proposal of Votership cannot be dismissed by expressing doubt over data.
(p) The people of tribal areas will not be able to withdraw Votership amount from ATM machine (?)
That to deposit and withdraw money from ATM machines is very difficult for the voters of an uneducated country like India. Therefore, the proposal of Votership cannot be cancelled on the plea that their amount will be misappropriated by the middlemen because- (i) That the people who have learnt operating ATM machine have not learnt the same right from their childhood i.e. the human being should relay on his brain, as his nature is different from animal. The money teaches everything and so, money will teach operation of ATM as well. (ii) That when Banks will come to know that they are going to get 5 to 10 rupee as commission from every voter as of the Votership amount of the voters, then their staff will go even to the forest to teach the tribals people how to operate ATM machines. (iii) That the family having money get education automatically. This education teach voter of the backward area to operate ATM machine automatically. (iv) That if the apprehension of misappropriating money of the tribals by corrupt fellow is taken as correct, then too after passing 2 to 4 years tribal will themselves come to know that they are incurring loss of thousands of rupee every month due to lacking of their consciousness. In a little time, the corrupt fellows will lose the opportunity of committing corruption if the tribals are consious themselves. (v) That the ability of the people of tribal and backward areas has been proved. Therefore, the question can be raised about their literacy only but raise question cannot raised on their conscience. Such practice to consider oneself is an misleading conclusion about the tribals. The information given in the above paras (i) to (v) prove that possibility of misappropriating the amount of tribal people by the corrupt persons is quite negligible. Even if there is some possibility, it is for few days only.
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(q) First of all a seminar on the Votership must be organized to evolve consensus among the intellectuals (?)
“That there must be nationwide series of seminars on Votership to evolve consensus among the intellectual on this subject and when they are unanimous on this subject it may be enacted by parliament.” On the basis of this arguments the means of providing right to life to the people cannot be further delayed of following reasons- (i) That the seminar is the need of that individual, organization, community, the party who is willing to understand Votership. Therefore, to run the series of meetings and seminars is not the responsibility of petitioners it may started by the government and by the people interested in such matter. (ii) That the petitioners organization has brought this issue before parliament after interacting with intellectuals, starting the series of seminars, public meetings and contemplation; therefore to expect from the persons who have obtained doctorate degree directly to go to the primary schools to study again is wrong. Yes, the principal petitioner is ready to place his statements for evaluation in a seminar or public meeting organized by some inquisitive organizations. Please see chapter-10.2 of this petition to get acquainted with the seminars and public meetings organized on this issue till date. There is justification of organizing any seminar only after study of these experiences and related literature. (iii) That the plan to place petition in Lok Sabha came out from who seminars and public meetings. When some seminars and public meetings on the issues of Votership were organized in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarnchal, Chhatishgarh, Jharkand etc., this question was asked on behalf of general public- “parliament is entrusted with the task of enacting law on Votership, or representatives are there to represent our interest. If time will be wasted in organizing nationwide public meeting and seminar, then many people will lose their lives due to crunch of income caused by world trade orgnisation and economic reforms (Whose lives would have been saved with the amount of Votership.”) the petitioners contemplated this conclusion emerged out of country wide seminars and public meetings and the plan to acquaint Lok Sabha with this issue was made through this petition after establishing an organization specially by the Parliament Affairs Cell Of Federation For Economic Freedom Movement. (iv) That experience came through country wide public meeting that the polarization on the proposal of Votership is not taking place on the basis of caste, community, language, religion, state, gender, age, political party rather polarization of this proposal is going on among the AB and O sensory group holders human being. To this extent that husband and wife, brothers are divided into opinion on this issue therefore the possibility of extracting any new conclusion from seminars has almost come to an end for the petitioners; therefore, now this issue has become a subject of parliament itself. (v) That the petitioner has reached this conclusion by organizing and attending many seminars and public meeting, observing social and national role or big and small political party and it is essential to continue the presence of all parties in view of the presence of large number of supporters and protestors of the proposal of Votership in each and every parties it has become requirement of both, the continuation of existing political parties and execution of the proposal of Votership. This is possible only when there is a federation of certain parties. This is possible only when there is a federation of all the parties on the pattern of companies. Therefore, the petitioners are more interested in making national, international and global federation of political parties with a view to face the challenges of globlisation.
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(vi) That ideological diversity is the basic trait of society and an ideology has a genetic basis. The spokesmen of every ideology has also hereditary character. Such spokesmen are known as intellectuals since they advocate different ideologies. That is why there is no such thing like intellectual unanimity, which should be quoted and time is wasted in search and to let lakhs of people be dead due to economic shortage. (vii) That the proposal of Votership provides the right and the means of the minimum economic equality to every individual voter. Therefore, this cannot be said that it favors any caste, sect, community, language, religion, or it cannot be said that it is against any other organization. Therefore, this amount is a national proposal which is above party politics as because which of the party would like to kill its voters due to economic crunch. Since, any party will not practically commit economic violence against the persons who vote in its favor, therefore. The works of mass education about the subject of Votership lie with Minister of information and Broadcasting, health and Human Resources Development or the present Union government. The departments and ministries which caused harm to the proposal of Votership with a view to fulfil their objectives, the government machineries should own the seminars and programmes of mass education on the same pattern government runs the awareness programmes for eradication of diseases like Aids and Polio. In the present era, which is full of production made through machines, now poverty has not remained as incurable economic disease. This is obvious from information given and analysis made in this petition that poverty is now existing due to superstitious believes of some people. Most of the objections raised against Votership are the outcome of such superstition. The problem of poverty can be solved by eradicating this superstition through government media. Government should order the respective Ministries to get involved in this work of eradication of superstition if government in reality represents the voters of the country. This is obvious from the information and analysis from the above paras (i) to (vii) that the life saving measures such as Votership cannot be with held in the pretext of conducting debate among the intellectuals only.
(r) Mandate should be sought through elections for Votership(?)
That the implementation of the proposal of Votership can’t be delayed by saying that, “Mandate should be taken for this legislative business before enacting the law of Votership for the following reasons:- (i) That there is no justification to take mandate till a law can be made on an issue through a common procedure of legislation. There is justification of mandate when the bill moved by the government does not get passed or when government is out of power with passing of a private member bill, in such situation the ruling party can say in the court of the people that the mandate the party had got in last election has been violated with the passing of private member bill. If the public really consider the same as violation of mandate, then they will send that party again in power to cancel that bill or related legislation. In view of the working system of parliament, it is obvious that amateur mandate is not taken on each matter. No one will get mandate when there is adequate discussion in Parliament. No result had been came out from the present parliament, the people were acquainted with this exercise of parliament then they had been feeling about their roles in elections. (ii) That validating mandate taken before presenting bill will establish wrong tradition and the laxity in the government will increase and the government will be involved in defending its own existence by instead of protecting the existence of the country and the people. And if the present government doesn’t move any bill of Votership in Parliament even after this petition, then
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it can’t defend itself from this allegation. So the issue of Votership can’t be delayed ever for a moment under the excuse of getting mandate. (iii) That Votership is not a simple issue. The lives of lakhs of people are associated with. Lakhs of people are dying every month due to economic crunch, malnutrition and in want of medicine or people are enforced to commit suicide. Regular amount of Votership is the medicine of save the lives of these people and this is the means of providing right to life to the people. To deny this means does mean denial of life. If the government doesn’t move a bill regarding Votership even after this petition is filed in Lok Sabha; then the government will have to take not only moral responsibility but legal responsibility as well of inflicting punishment thereof for the deaths and suicides taken place due to economic crunch. In this present era where there is adequate production with the help of machine, the government can’t be allowed to shed crocodile tears over the death of people, to appeal for reducing population and to propagate for making the country rich. The person advocating for getting public mandate should also declared as to whether he or she is willing to get hanged or face life imprisonment for the said deaths? The persons deliberately delaying the Votership in the name of public mandate should declare first about the self punishment to be imposed on him for the delay, only then his democratic honesty will be certified. (iv) That the people seeking public mandate may be considered honest if they ask the government to move bill first and in case of non – passing the bill, they may demand for holding immediate election without any delay. (v) That public mandate cannot be obtained on every issue because it can be obtained on a cultural issue but the same cannot be obtained on each of the economic issue. The basic reason is vested in political donation, which controls public mandate. With the implementation of Votership the common voters, labourers, farmers and such other people will be really benefited who are already deprived of money. They are not in a position to give donation to those who will raise their voice in favor of Votership as they don’t have money and who make publicity among the public in favor of Votership without getting donation. Without publicity, the public mandate one gets is not public mandate in fact. It is mandate on behalf of the donors. (vi) That a newly formed party known as RSD has placed total 28 candidates in five states of the country on the issue of Votership in general elections of Lok Sabha of 2004. There was much zeal among the public over the issue of Votership, yet all the candidates lost election and main reason observed for their defeat was shortage of means for publicity. This has been observed that the prosperous people of the country donate with zeal for the publicity of their caste and religion based frenzy but they avoid giving donation voluntarily for the publicity means of economic democracy like Votership. The experience of Lok Sabha election-2004 proves that if the government doesn’t bear the expense of publicity of the candidates in election, then the election result will be donation based result, not public mandate in real sense, it would be mandate of money holders instead of mandate i.e. the public mandate would be bogus public mandate not genuine vote. (vii) If the government doesn’t meet the expense of the candidates for the publicity of Votership, then public mandate can be obtained by holding referendum instead of holding election. The best situation would be to declare financial emergency under the article 352 of the constitution first in view of the financial calamities being faced by most of the families in the country. Thereafter referendum on the issue of Votership must be held with fully government expenditure under the president rule and all these things must be undertaken immediately. The normal period of Lok Sabha should not be allowed to expire just in waiting. (viii) That the parties full of huge donation advocating the luxurious lives of the rich people in name of development and the parties, alliances and federations of the parties advocating
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for the means as a right to life for the poor like Votership issue are asked to contest the same election and there is no level playing. The contest between the two is unmatched and it would be violation of the basic principle of the game. If a wrestling is arranged between a healthy man and a man hungry for ten days, then is quite certain that the hungry man will get defeated and it would not be correct to presume that he is a weak fellow. The government by way of succession Act has created a large population of poor voters who are just like slaves. In the electoral wrestling when they will contest with the parties represented by the rich, they may get defeated in want of resources. That wouldn’t be a wrestling; rather it would be a conspiracy. It would not be an election; rather it would be just a drama. There is no need of Votership if election had met the economic expectation of the mass. It is obvious that traditional election is not capable to express public mandate in respect of Votership. Therefore, there is no justification to delay the legislative process of Votership in the name of such public mandate. (ix) That there are a number of office bearers and workers belonging to the AB and O blood groups in every party. So in every party there are persons of AB and O sensory conscience in whose micro bodies (shuksham Sharir) AB and O impulses are in circulation. The persons with AB blood group irrespective of the parties they are associated with will oppose the Votership issue whereas the persons with O blood group will support the same. Thus, this issue will not polarize the parties rather it will polarize the office bearers and workers of the parties. There are both supporters and opponents of this issue in every party. If the issue is raised during the election, it will create decision in every party. Every party will have undergone internal clash. Since the petitioners don’t want to create internal clash in any party, so they are giving preference to the legislative process of parliament instead of electoral means. It is apparent from the analysis of the above Para (i) to (ix) that the plea of getting public mandate may be justified only when government has introduced related bill in parliament voting was taken thereon and the bill could have been defeated on the floor of the house on the government may have collapsed for a private member’s bill has been passed. The plea of getting public mandate is meaningless in absence of any such move.
(S) No Solution To The Problems, Only A Planning To Create Pressure (?)
That the proposal of Votership can’t be taken as just a planning to create pressure for the following reasons- (i) That pressure groups are active in democracy it can’t be held wrong in democracy. The associations of government employers, associations of industrialists associations of the world traders, the associations of businessmen spread in every town and city of the country, the political parties advocating the cause of various castes and communities are the very much examples of the pressure groups. If a party or organisation of the poor voters is formed as such, there is nothing new in this and the same can’t be held wrong. (ii) The decision of the state in democracy is very much dependent on the pressure groups and if the poor voters after getting organised also influence the decisions of the state, then the decision of the State would be considered more democratic. Therefore, the new pressure group likely to be formed would be a step of welcome, not an issue of stricture. (iii) That it working under the influence of the pressure group of the industrialists- traders is held correct and the emergence of the pressure group of the poor voters is considered incorrect, then it is certain that the state of such thinking will never deliver justice; it will be a state of defending injustice caused by the capitalists. If the state doesn’t co-operate in creation of such pressure group of the poor voters, then it would be the duty of every judicious voters to do every
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possible thing for uprooting such unjust rule and at least to disobey the orders of the state and to adopt non-co-operation stand against it. (iv) That the proposal of Votership should not be taken just as a mole of creating pressure group by mobilizing the poor. It is in fact technical appeal before the sate made by the people evicted during the process of formation of world economy. The people are expressing both their pain and remedy to the same. (v) That when the state becomes to much insensitive that it begins to consider the out- cry of its voters as a conspiracy the spiritual power governing the States all over the world dissociates itself with such state. As a result of this, there is a revolt or change in the system. The perception of history of the change in ruling system and economy, demands that the proposal of Votership should be taken as voice of the voters in their self-defense not as a conspiracy to create pressure. The analysis of the above points (i) to (v) suggests that the proposal of Votership cannot be termed as conspiracy to create pressure group of the poor of the unorganized sectors only and if any such pressure group is ever created, it will enhance democratic values, the number of the believers of democracy will get increased and last but not least the democratic co-efficient of the state will get increased.
(T) Concept of votership is against the federal structure of Indian constitution, so the support of regional parties is very difficult?
“The provincial governments and regional parties will not cooperate with the concept of votership because it is against the federal structure of Indian constitution” – this anticipation is not sustainable for the following reasons: (i) That, in fact the proposal of votership is matter of financial regulation of the country which is the subject of union list of schedule 7 of Indian constitution that is why no regional parties or provincial governments can abstract for implementing this proposal of votership. (ii)That, if a provincial governments and a regional party have objection about payment of votership amount directly by the union governments, then logically they should also object for participation of voters living in their states in elections of Lokshabha to constitute the union legislature. There is no sense to representatives of their state to go and sit in the union parliament. In fact there is two hands of each voter, by one he or she votes to provincial legislature and by second he or she construct the union legislature. Actually the union government will handover the ATM Card and cash to that hand of a voter who votes for union legislature. (iii)That, this is genuine anxiety of regional parties, if a misconception takes place into the minds of voters that the amount of votership is their share in collective property but it is a gift made by particular national party. Consequently the voters of the state will be tending to vote for the same national party which may reduce popular base of the regional party. It will be better for the regional parties to workout and suggest any system to combat this type of misconception among the voters instead of opposing the proposal of votership. (iv)That, under the theory of federalism, some function are discharged by the union government and others are by the provincial governments. If this federal theory is applies in the matter of votership, then the voters list of state government and voters list of central government may be separated vertically. This separation may be made on the basis of economic status of the voters. There may be two voters list, one of those of below poverty line and other of above poverty line. There should be freedom to regional parties to choose one between two lists to give cash
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directly to their voters as votership. The federal theory will be followed completely by this method of distribution. (v) That, the apprehension came by disbursing cash to each and every voter by the union government, the same apprehensions expressed by some people when the provision of single Election Commission, single Reserve Bank, single Supreme Court, single defense system… etc. were conceived under the constitution. if such apprehensions has a substance then how could the regional parties may come into existence under the single election system time has proved these apprehensions baseless. Similarly the apprehension expressed today regarding votership will also prove baseless tomorrow. (vi) That, the local power house works as a booster of current between the generating center and consumer of electricity. Similarly, under the federal principle, state government works as booster between the voters of the state and Union Government. If particular party or provincial govt. plays role of obstruction in the process of execution of votership instead of playing role of booster, then such parties and governments will be guilty of committing violation of federal rules provided in Indian constitution. Neither constitution nor voters of such states will grant excuse to such political parties and provincial governments. (vii)That, the economy and market of whole world has been united by the GATT agreement. The definition of sovereignty and votership has been changed. If the economic sovereignty of country has changed, then how the economic sovereignty of the states will remain as it is? In emerging economic order wherein any foreigner enters into the houses of people of country to sale his toffee to children without ringing the outside call-bell, then how the union finance minister can be restrain to enter into the families of the states for handing over the cash amount of the votership? The person who oppose the concept of the votership in the name of federal structure of the Indian constitution, why they accepted the GATT agreement? If second is acceptable, then why first is worth rejection? (viii) That, if handing over the quota of provincial government into the central revenue is a federal behavior of union government of 100 units. then giving their quota in central revenues to MPs MLAs and heads of blocks, villages and families will have to say as the federal behavior of union government of two 200, 300, 400, 500, 600 units respectively. Similarly handing over the quota of voters in union revenue will have to say the federal behavior of seven hundred units of the union government. So the proposal of votership will strengthen the federal structure of the constitution instead of damaging it as apprehended by some. (ix)That, “a PANCH can not interfere in the domestic matters of the families of a particular village, to avoid the violation of federal structure of village”. This statement can not be used as a curtain behind a head of family put their members as economic slaves, beats them brutally and torture them by hunger. This is a matter of economic human right and opposition of votership is an offence same as violation of human rights. The proposal of votership is a means to end the global economic violence in the name to defend the federal structure and so called development. No judicious regional party and provincial government will oppose this proposal of votership which is created to eliminate to the state of economic slavery. It is clear by the arguments and description given in the above Para (i) to (ix) that the proposal of votership nurtures not undermines the federal behavior of Indian constitution. Therefore the judicious regional parties and provincial governments will cooperate with this proposal of votership instead of opposing it.
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(U) A proposal to boost greediness in society
The proposal of votership can not be declined merely on account of reasons that it promotes greediness in society for the following reasons – (i) That, the person who has knowingly or unknowingly accepted the market which is based mainly on greed, they have no moral rights to condemn the proposal of votership which is evolved to establish justice and minimum economic equality among voters. Hence this proposal is bound to be accepted till the market system prevails. May be the votership does not uproot the disease but undoubtedly it gives relief to the people suffering under the greedy market. (ii)That, human greed is thorn which is pinching to the sole of leg of mankind. So, every judicious person will support this method of votership of removing one thorn by another. (iii) That, in the circumstances where the followers of market forces have been united globally and wondering in the countryside with the sword of greed. In such a situation teachings of non-violence to the masses can not lead to the establishment of real non-violence. The establishment of real non violence is only possible on providing swords of greed in the hands of rural people. Even in this situation any person goes to villages for teaching the lesion of nonviolence, there would be four situations, which are as under: First, such a person is an ignorant of the real path and is not a torchbearer. He does not know that what is he doing and what would be the consequences of his leadership. Or Second, they are the snakes in the sleeves of poor people of the backward areas. Third, such person is an agent of criminals who promote the cruel market but he is cheating the masses bearing the garb of the saint. Fourthly, such person is indebted the representatives of the market and as an action to repay this amount he is teaching the rural people the lesion of the non- violence and suggesting them that they should surrender before the cruel forces of the market with the hope to live a better life after committing suicide, I. e. in their para-life. (iv) That, the followers of the market are sticking strongly with the policy of paying the workers only on the condition of hard physical work. When the same policy performance for payment is applied to the rich people the same persons close their eyes to ignore it. Such people support to give the unearned collective money income to the capitalists only in the form of interest, rent, inheritance… etc. But they oppose when similar income in form of votership is proposed for the poor voters. When the question of Votership arises, such people raise hue and cry about of fall of volume of production. People of this mentality support the maximum volume of production but they start beating their chest in pain when they see that all the people are approaching to consume the products. This phenomena can be illustrated in the manner that the person who made all possible efforts to construct a building but he starts hue and cry when people enter into this building with bag and baggage to live in. by shouting that “greed is expanding … greed is expanding” in fact this is a psychic disorder of someone due to their AB consciousness. The proposal of votership can not be dismissed at the insistence of such people. (v) That, on account of such people who are mentioned in the above Para 4, commodities required only to the rich people are produced in the economy instead of producing commodities needed to the general public. It is fact that the prosperous section of society expends a huge part of their income on luxurious articles. To satisfy their needs a specific technology of production has to
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be evolved. Which harms the environmental balance so the person who oppose the concept of votership calling it a greed promoting proposal, are fundamentally responsible to damage the environment. (vi) That, the concentration of capital is only possible by opposing the proposal of votership and supporting the laws regarding inheritance. This concentration of capital is fundamentally responsible for growth of technology harmful to the environment and for the arbitrary production of luxurious items. The right of inheritance is itself a fetal example of greed. Such society and such people who support inheritance have no right to oppose the proposal of votership. (vii) That, it was dreamt in the struggle of political freedom by expelling the British people from India. Now the activists of votership are dreaming for economic freedom for each and every citizen by the means of votership. Some politicians may become MPs and MLAs and some traders and industrialists can create anarchy after political independence, could it be call correct to these apprehensions, that freedom fighters should have stopped the freedom struggle. Freedom fighters promoted the greed of politicians and industrialist through the struggle of political freedom, could it be concluded? Would it be correct to invite again the Britisers in India to rule? (viii) That, there are two types of people who oppose the votership. Those who oppose this proposal without sufficient study are in first group. Those who oppose this proposal under a conspiracy are in second. For identifying their category it should be noticed that person who is opposing this proposal of votership on the basis of greed, has he ever been opposed the right of inheritance and has he ever been demanded for a ceiling on prosperity of individual. (ix) That, a person who teaches to follow left as a rule of traffic but same person oppose to construct a law to punish those who violets the same traffic rule. Then a doubt arises against the intension, or against the wisdom, or against the both of such a person who behave like this. The things like votership which eliminates the circumstances in which consumerism, greed and nonobservance of self control emerges. Doubts about intension arises against those people who prorogate against consumerism and greedless ness but on the same time they oppose the proposal of votership. On account of the argument and analysis made in above para (i) to (ix) is proves that the proposal of votership can not be dismissed only on allegation for promoting greediness. Such opponents have not sufficient study about future consequence of votership.
(V) Problem of environment can not be solved by votership? “Even executing the proposal of votership the problem of environment can not be solved” - the proposal of votership can not be dismissed on account of this conclusion. The reasons are as follows: (i) That, the proposal of votership is not solution of the environment. When there is no such claim made by the promoters of this proposal, so there is no reason to oppose this proposal of votership on this ground. (ii) That, on behind of the anxiety to protect environment is to make available the consumption to the future generations of mankind. The insistence to maintain as it is to the natural resources like coal, petrol, water … etc arises by the same objective. If this insistence fully adopted, then the curtailment will take place necessarily in the existing volume of production. Looking this curtailment the prosperous section of society will not agree to make proportionate curtailment in their consumption. In this situation the burden and adverse effect of reduction of production will
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have to born only by the poor section of the society. As a result significant section of poor society will be deprived of their minimum needs and as a result they will fall in the trap of death in this manner, Hence the concern to protect the future generations by so called method of environmental protection will lead to genocide of the present generation of mankind. (iii) That, who are worried for environment, often they follow their hearts not their brain too. Hence no adequate method has been developed so far to solve the problem of environment in the world. (iv) That, it is clear by above para that the prosperous people do not care of environment. Then there is no logic for poor section of society to commit suicide discarding the votership in the name of environment. (v) That, gradually developing modern most of technologies are responsible to damage environmental balance and concentration of huge capital in few hands is mainly responsible to develop these technologies. After disbursing the amount of votership to each and every voter the situation of concentration of wealth will disappear and as a result the environment damaging technology could not come into being. So it can be concluded that by implementing the proposal of votership the destruction of environment could not be checked but the speed of the destruction will decrease definitely. (vi) That, the person who is concern only for environment but oppose the proposal of votership, in fact he is hoping a thorn less tree of BABOOL. If the consensus to decentralize the economic power does not take place, then the production of environment damaging technology will remain continue. Consequently the destruction of environment also will be continue (vii) That, the protection of environment is not a local issue but global one. At present neither global parliament nor global government exists to solve the world level problems. Till the competent institution with the sovereign power does not come into existence, under a Global Agreement on Poverty and Piece i. e. GAPP, the expectation to solve the problem of environment will remain as an anxiety of a person who is suffering of paralysis. (viii) That, destruction of environment can not be checked even if the economic power comes in the hands of a very small group of persons in the name of proletariat dictatorship. This new state also could not be free with fear psychosis of becoming backward in the race of development in comparison of other countries of the world. This state will also have to adopt the same environmental destructive technologies. The destruction of environment will continue even in the state constituted in the new pattern. (ix) That, to advocate traditional and so called decentralization of production system is a rightist economic ideology, which is only a high sounding speech. It can not leave any impact. This system of economy was the symptom of childhood of civilization. This very seen would again appear after about 2000 years when this civilization will become older. On account of the above para (i) to (ix) it proves that the proposal of votership of votership can not be dismissed saying this statement – “it is not competent to solve the problem of environment “. In fact, this is a commentary of that fellow who has not studied this proposal of votership thoroughly.
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MARXISM AND VOTERSHIP: A COMPARISON
THE APPREHENSIONS OF ANTI-MARXISTS AGAINST VOTERSHIP
a) Votership is also Marxism which failed in the history (?) ……………………………….. 64 b) Due to Votership India will meet the fate of Russia because communist revolution failed? ………………………………………………………….. 65
THE APPREHENSIONS OF MARXISTS AGAINST VOTERSHIP a) Distribution of land, not of money ………………………………………………………………………… 66 b) It is not as per Marxist theory, so the support of Marxists is impossible ………………. 66 c) The measures for safeguarding capitalism and globalization ………………………………. 67 d) Votership will raise demand for multinational government ………………………………… 68
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THE APPREHENSIONS OF ANTI-MARXISTS AGAINST VOTERSHIP
(a) Votership is also Marxism which failed in the history (?) –
That two measures for economic justice and poverty alleviation – Marxism and Votership cannot be considered as one for following reasons-
(i) That Marxism aims at achieving the objective of economic equality in Total, whereas the proposal of Votership is just a measure to achieve minimum economic equality. (ii) That Marxism considers dictatorship of poor representatives essential for economic justice whereas proposal of Votership is based on this theory that dictatorship of the riches going on in the name of political democracy can be considered wrong only that situation when the capitalists reject this proposal of Votership of minimum economic equality. (iii) That most of the Marxists assume that all the holders of capital are “capitalists”, whereas architects of the theory of Votership have reached this conclusion that assessment of ability of any person from the angle of capital is inherent quality of some people just like some people admires other people from the angle of beauty, muscle power, knowledge power, mass based power etc. Since the people to admires others on the basis of capital are born in poor families as well, so all the rich people can be called holder of capital but not as “capitalists” interrogative sense. The holder of capital doesn’t like economic cruelty whereas capitalists enjoy that cruelty – which is the very reason of permanent existence of poverty. (iv) That the Marxists considered State as real owner of property whereas, capitalists assume the real owner to the individual who holds the property. On the other hand the architects of economic democracy and Votership consider voters of the nation as real owners of property. (v) The Marxists conceive the structure of economic justice by concentrating factory workers at the central place whereas; the architects of Votership keep voters at the centre. The analysis of architects of Votership is based on this fact that in Europe of 18th century, the land on which Marxism originated and the main production during those days was coming from the factory workers. Economic atrocity made on them was unbearable for any sensitive fellow. Therefore, dictatorship of laborers was adopted as a measure, which was a right step in view of challenges and circumstances prevailing during those days. With the rise of Marxism the tendency of strike in the factories also increased. Strike began to take place even at those places where Marxists didn’t rule. As the result of this the production forces of the whole world began to search and adopt unmanned automatic production technology with full might. The scenario of economy changed in 100 years. The machines replaced human laborers in almost every production sectors. As a result of this huge production at very cheap cost became possible. When the culture of huge production reached Russia the public were fascinated at large towards cheap and better goods and wave against Marxism went on in the name of openness. With the rise in number of machines, the people became less laborious. The number of labourers in the organized sectors decreased to this extent that the labourers in organized and public sector came in minority. The justification of formulating policies of economic justice giving central place to the organized laborers lost its relevance. Therefore, the architects of Votership gave prominence to the voters instead of labourers while preparing ground for economic justice and economic freedom so that no one remains out of protection circle of economic justice. (vi) That the machine has fully reversed the entire theory of economics and theories of economic justice on which adequate contemplation has not been made till now. The capitalist and
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the followers of capitalism both could have continued to exploit the labourers like bull and continued to search still the possibilities of profit making even in least production made by if Marxism was not in the scene. The capitalist concentrated on research of machines to avoid the pangs of strike in industrial units. And thus invention of machines took place very rapidly. The benefits of machine could have reached to the laborers if there were any arrangement of distribution of liquid property produce by mechanical labor of the machines. In absence of any such provisions machines proved curse for the laborers instead of boon. They were made jobless and they were compelled to sign on the fake account register of the employers which was nothing but voucher of their peril despite the existence of minimum wages act. Votership will now provide these laborers again an opportunity to bargain the rates of wages. The architects of Votership have this reached this conclusion that machines have made the dictatorship of the laborers as suicidal where as many of the Marxist even today assume dictatorship of laborers as their relevant means. (vii) implementation with a view to understand difference between Marxists ruling system and the proposed ruling system as prepared by the architects of Votership is mentioned herewith. It is obvious from the basis of points (i) to (vi) that proposal of Votership cannot be rejected by terming this as ‘Marxist formulae’ Objects of the both may be one but their means are different
(b) Due to Votership India will meet the fate of Russia because communist revolution failed?
To say India will meet the fate of Russia if it accepts the proposal of Votership and communist revolution proved ineffective, is just an ignorant comment; for following reasons- (i) That if any movement gains momentum, it is evidence of its social utility. It is an additional utility if the same moment achieves its declare objectives too. To called communist revolution as a ‘revolution’ and again terming the same as ‘failure’ proves that the person making such comment is unacquainted with the science of movement. (ii) That there was rise of welfare state in reaction to communist revolution and almost the whole world is extracting its benefit. Therefore, the whole world is indebted to the communist revolution. Hence, it is wrong to say that communist revolution did not give anything. (iii) That the invention and expansion of machines became possible against the reaction of communist movements and strikes. Machines have fair share in the progress of today’s world. The whole world is indebted to the communist movement for this progress. (iv) That the countries which did not adopt Marxism as a ruling system, they also implemented all schemes such as employee provident scheme in reaction to Marxism. The provident fund prevailing in the whole world is the outcome of the communist revolution. (v) Due to communist revolution a common man also could occupy place in history. History now describes the tale of human race instead of detail of different royal dynasties only. Due to communist revolution first time royal houses and industrial houses felt the suffering of laborers, otherwise prior to communist revolution laborers to the industrial houses were the same as goats are to the fanatic Muslims. (vi) The conclusions of the Para (i) to (v) prove that communist revolution did not fail and itr is proved that the proposal of Votership is not synonyms of the ruling system and economy like that of Russia. Therefore, it is meaningless to connect proposal of Votership with Russia. The analyses made in the above Para (i) to (vi) make it clear that the apprehension that India will meet the fate of Russia if proposal of Votership is excepted because of the failure of communist revolution doesn’t hold any meaning. Hence this cannot be accepted.
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THE APPREHENSIONS OF MARXISTS AGAINST VOTERSHIP
(a) Distribution of land, not of money-
That “distribution of land cannot be an alternative to the proposal of Votership for following reasons- (i) That now machine has become main source of production instead of land. (ii) That is beyond the capability of the government to provide protection to the agriculture sector due to international agreements regarding the world trade. Therefore, now small holdings cannot produce the item on such a low cost on which the same may be purchased in international market produced by sophisticated technology of production. (iii) If the total area of cultivable and residential land is divided by the total number of population, a very small portion of land goes in the share of a person. The honor of that small piece of land cannot extract any benefit without capital, whereas he or she can purchase land of his or her choice with the amount of Votership. (iv) Land is like buffalo, the meat of which cannot produce milk whereas money is like milk which can be distributed equally. 80 buffalos cannot be equally distributed among 100 persons, whereas milk of 80 buffalos can be equally distributed among 100 persons. It is obvious from the grounds of the above points made in the paras (i) to (iv) that distribution of land is not an alternative to the Votership.
(b) It is not as per Marxist theory, so the support of Marxists is impossible
The conclusion the Marxist will oppose it because it is not as per, “Marxist theory” is incorrect for the following reasons- (i) The Marxist, who consider poverty alleviation as their main objective and consider power as its means, will support proposal of Votership. Opposition will be made by those mainly who consider the power as their only goal. The issue of Votership will separate the persons of both groups like milk and water. (ii) That had great philosopher like Marx, been alive today he too could not have given central place to only 2 percent laborers of organised sectors in his contemplation rather he could have placed the voters at the centre office contemplation. Therefore, there is nothing wrong in considering Votership as a timely alternative to the Marxism. It cannot be proved that it is against Marxism. (iii) That some Marxists assume that a poor community is not like an economic community, but like a social community. Due to misunderstanding such Marxists want to fight the war of poor on same pattern on which leaders of various castes and religions fight for the “SELF RESPECT” for their own castes or community. In fact, element of self respect for “their society” even exists in the politics of some Marxists also. Believing in self respect for “their society”, some leaders are engaged in personal economic progress and enhancing self respect of the moneyless persons. Both kinds of persons believing in so called self respect but don’t understand this fact that the person with that economic condition cannot maintain his self respect in any manner and other person will definitely humiliate him. Honour of such persons cannot remain intact only for this reason that the leader of their own caste or region or religions of the poor are in power. Such politicians are really victim of misunderstanding for believing that their faces reflect everyone’s face. Such persons believe that everyone’s self respect is vested in their own leaders self respect. This politician doesn’t commit any conspiracy in this regard rather they believe in this innocently.
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(iv) Participation in election or demonstration of belief of any kind in electoral system doesn’t match with the Marxist theory like that of the Votership. If as a part of strategy participation in election is justified then Marxists also will definitely support the proposal of Votership, though as part of strategy only. (v) That any programme related to economic justice in countries like India doesn’t succeed because the prosperous fellow who commit economic atrocities by donating the leaders fighting for the so called castes and communal self respect divide society in different segments. As a result of this polarization on the basis of economic interest doesn’t become possible. With the possibility of getting proposed cash amount in the proposal of Votership people will get an opportunities to decide to take a particular side after they visualize the prosperity of their leader and their own economic conditions. Thus it will pave the way for economic polarization of the society which is very essential for Marxists politics. Its social outcome will be as such that it will lessen the racial for communal animosity in the society and it will strengthen national unity. The analysis made in the above paras (i) to (v) proves that opposition to Votership will level an allegation of being fake advocate for the poor against the Marxists leaders. Therefore, they will definitely work for the success of Votership mission to avoid this allegation, though take it as a part of their strategy only.
(c) The measures for safeguarding capitalism and globalisation-
The proposal of Votership is not to safeguarding plan to capitalism and globalization, the reasons are as under:
(i) That it is fundamental nature of capitalism that it honours capitalists, whereas the principal of Votership honours capital bereft voters as well and considers them eligible for getting some regular amount. (ii) That the capitalism with the help of market systems denies the labourers to bargain for their labour and commit economic rape on them. Regular amount of Votership to the voters will guarantee for food and self defense to the labourers. With this income they may bargain for their labour before working any where and they will get justified wages for their labour. With the public opportunities to bargain for labour the fundamental atrocities enshrined with capitalism will come to an end. (iii) That with the Votership all voters will join the trade unions for making a move to increase Votership amount in the same way the labourers of organised sectors join the trade union today. Thus it will change the nature of trade union and they will be 50 fold increases in its membership. (iv) That an with opportunities to bargain for their labour their wages will get increase and thus the purpose of labour laws and trade union organizations will get fulfill. Fulfillment of the objective of labour laws and trade union organisations will proportionately lessen capitalist atrocity. (v) That capitalism acquires power to commit atrocity by calling actual demand as ineffective demand and makes production only for effective demand. With the income of Votership actual demand of the people will be treated as effective demand and as a result of this capitalists injustice will come to an end. It is obvious from the analyses made in the paras (i) to (v) that this is unfounded conclusion that due to Votership economic suppression of the people will be lessened and so they will not
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raised their voice against capitalists and as a result of which capitalism will become a permanent feature. Whereas truth is contrary to this.
(d) Votership will raise demand for multinational government –
That the people will start demanding for forming multinational government at later stage to get the amount of Votership enhanced. It will create new challenges in formation of multinational government whereas people have not got rid of multinational companies yet. Therefore, multinational votership, multinational constitution and administration will strengthen globalisation. On the basis of such arguments proposal of Votership cannot be rejected for following reasons – (i) That the people believing in gandhian theory for their rightist economic thinking may oppose globalisation because it lies in their fundamental nature but globalisation cannot be a cause of theoretical protest for the Marxists as because the Marxist slogan “labourers of the world be united “ is a slogan for a fact (ii) That the Marxists are not against globalisation but they oppose globalisation of market only . the Marxist will support of globalisation and unity of labourers hence there is dispute over the nature of globalisation, not for globalisation itself (iii) That experience of last two decades has proved this fact that by opposing globalisation the dangers of present globalisation cannot be avoided. There is only one way to safe from the dangers of present globalisation to formulate a judicious structure for globalisation and to make an effort to implement the same. Therefore, the persons in opposition against globalisation are themselves disillusioned as they don’t understand globalisation properly and they are committing blunder in searching of new invention in the dictionary of past . (iv) One should not commit mistake of considering capitalism and globalisation as synonyms and of equal result. With globalisation of market, economic injustice will increase. With the globalisation of state, economic injustice will increase. Regionalisation of market will increase economic justice, regionalisation of states i.e. formation of small states will increase economic injustice. These are the formulas which are absolute like those of the physics. It is obvious from these conclusions that globalisation of market will strengthen capitalism and globalisation of state will check its arbitrariness. (v) The power balance of the world disturbed due to globalisation of market on account of GATT agreement can be restored by GAPP agreement. The arbitrariness of globalisation of one kind can be checked by globalisation of another kind as iron cuts iron. The information and analysis made in paras (i) to (v) proves that opposition to globalisation has no justification; Votership may create judicious nature of globalisation by changing its atrocious nature. Therefore, the proposal of Votership is a subject which can be supported for the people suffered due to globalisation.
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VOTERSHIP AND INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO
Unique proposal of the world ………………………………………………….. 70 It will increase wages of the labourers, Balance of payment will get disturbed ……………………………………... 70 It will stop the flow of foreign capital into the country ……………… 71
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(A) It will increase wages of the labourers, balance of payment will get disturbed (?)
(i) That the apprehension “that the labourers after getting Votership will increase their rates of wages, as a result of which there will be increase in production cost and it will slow the pace off export also. There will be increase in loan on the government of India and balance of payment will disturbed” cannot be accepted for the following reasons- (ii) That production cost is not only related to the wages of labourers but also it is related to the rent of capital, rent of machines, administrative expenditure of the company, percentage profit in sale of goods or service etc. The owner of capital are not worried about balance of payment of the nation if he or she wants to recovered more and more rent. The owner of machine are not showing any concern for loan on the country if they want to recover more and more rents of their machines. The manger and administrative officer of the company are not worried for the country if they spend money indiscriminately – they go by car where they could have used scooter, they travel by air where they could have travel by rail. Then in such situation why the burden of repaying loan of the country should be borne only by the labourers? Is this not an economic rape on them? Since there is no moral force behind the apprehension of deterioration of balance of payment, hence it cannot be accepted. (iii) The proposal of Votership can be negative only in that condition when the persons taking maximum possible rent of their capital, of their machines, of their land and manager of the company, administrator of the company, administrative machinery of the government – all of them reduced expenditure on their maintenance to this extend that the amount of their livelihood is below the line of per capita average purchasing power. If extravagant expenditure on aeroplanes, air conditioner, alleviation and tiles on the buildings continue- two times meal to labourers on account of Votership cannot be called extravagant expenditure and thus it cannot be opposed. (iv) That today in the price determination system the price of an item costing rupees ten only is fixed at Rs 200/- . if the other people who are associated with production and distribution process along with other labourers will control their private expenditure then only due to Votership the items exported from India can not be so costly that its price in international market may appear very high. To raise finger and check the wages of labourers and sparing land, machine, capital, profit making etc. from the economic discipline is not an impartial thinking, hence this plea cannot be accepted. (v) That more than half of the amount of average purchasing power to be spend on luxurious life style is declared illegal and some restriction is imposed on the people living above this standard, then and then only the justification of proposal of Votership can be questioned because then economic burden of national service will be shared by all voters. (vi) The person who is not ready to except national limit of consumption, is also provided votership of the country, it may have four meanings. Firstly they are refugees in this country. Secondly they are foreign nationals settle in this country, who have come here for trading. Thirdly they are indigenous feudal lords who have made native voters as economic slaves. Fourthly they are jointly multinational voters of many countries. Therefore, it is not their priority at all to maintain balance of payment of India. (vii) All the so called Indian voters who spend much more than average purchasing power of the nation on their living don’t have any concern for balance of payment of the country. And there is no reason behind imposing this worry ness only on the labourer voters of the country. If the voters consuming more than the average purchasing power are multinational voters instead of Indian voters, then assuming the status of voters instead of labourers as of multinational votership too will be the necessary judicious action. If labourers also are multinational voters like other
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consumer voters then the labourers don’t have any responsibility to forsake their meal for the balance of payment of the country. There is no justification to oppose the proposal of Votership. If the labourers don’t have any responsibility to make sacrifice for the country then there is no such logic to oppose the proposal of Votership on the apprehension of imbalance of payment. (viii) That when all the reach people who are said to be Indian citizen on the basis of national limit of consumption are not Indian voters, when entire labourer community being in support of proposal of Votership will not remain as voters of India. Population of both groups are added together, it becomes around 45 crore. Because around 40 crore labourers in unorganised sector and around 5 crore people are above the national limit of consumption. The total number of voters in India is around 68 crore. Thus the total number of such persons in India who follow economic code of conduct of nationality is 23 crore. This number is just 33 percent of the number 68 crore. If liabilities are to be distributed 33 percent of population of India are to share the burden of only 33 percent loan on country. If economic votership is separated from political votership in then India is left with only 1/3rd loan and the problem of balance of payment will also the shorted out. Because there will be least import for the people living within the national limit of consumption, there will be least requirement of export in place of the present import. It is obvious that the problem of balance of payment is being created by those who are consuming more than the national limit. Then why labourer class who are living with the national limit of consumption should be punish for the wrong doing of such fellows. Since labourers are getting economic penalty without having any fault in absence of giving the right of Votership, so the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected only on the apprehension of imbalance of payment It is proved on the basis of information, logics, analyses and conclusions on the above points (i) to (vii) the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected only on the apprehension of imbalance of payment.
(B) It will stop the flow of foreign capital into the country-
On the basis of this plea that the foreign capitalists after observing control on the profit of capital will go to another country instead of coming to India, the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected for the following reasons- (i) That only the persons who consider unconsciously themselves as its owner of foreign capital can insists so much on this capital. It is like that the owner of a bank begins to considered money deposited by the customers in his bank as his own money. Such misunderstanding prevails also hear that foreign capital is our own capital. This is the defect of excess value of foreign capital. Therefore, this plea against proposal of Votership cannot be accepted. (ii) That to habituate the voters of enjoying with loan is a dangerous domestic management, which will damage the house itself. As a reasons of this the persons investing foreign capital will start interfering in internal affairs of the country for the security of their capital and for making more and more profit. After a limit when his interference will become unbearable then the internal management will refused to bow down before him and in such situation he will escape to other country with his capital. During this period the voters of the country who got an opportunity to lead luxurious lives just by spending small amount, will create difficulties before internal managers in the name of ‘right of consumer’. It will create internal anarchy since long term effect of foreign capital is dangerous for the country, so the proposal of Votership cannot be rejected to sustain this danger. (iii) That there is always a threat of converting foreign capital into foreign loan because the foreign capitalists invests his capital in the country and in case of any annoyance he may
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withdraw his capital and in such situation the government may request him to retain some portions of his amount in the country of time being because that amount has been invested in different places. This amount will be converted in foreign loan and due to this amount the government already burden with paying interest for foreign loan will further fresh problem. It is obvious that opposition of the proposal of Votership will create loan crisis before the country, therefore, opposition to this proposal is not acceptable. (iv) That to invite foreign capital in the country is not only in the interest of the government of that country rather the person coming with his capital as his own vested interest. Can interest be charged every month if money is not deposited in bank? Money will not increase. Money biggest money because other people along with the owner of that money make labour for that as labour creates production and that production increase principal amount. There are three categories of the country in the world. One is the country in which there is no possibility to invest money in industry. Developed countries come in this category. Secondly there is such countries in which foreign capitalist may invest their money and the governments with dishonesty may refused to refund their money. The entire undeveloped countries come in that category. Thirdly there are such countries where in government return loan with honesty by showing extreme politeness. The few developing countries like India come in this categories. Due to extreme politeness of the government which can be called the politeness to the extend of coward ness and the misuse of honesty by the foreign capitalists prevailing among these voters who may allow them to exploit and thus the foreign capitalist are always willing to increased their capital by asking the people to undertake much more labour for them. The innocent, honest and polite fellows engaged themselves like ox without thinking much and produce lot of grains for the foreign farmers. The foreign farmer earns much more profit by selling that grain in market and recovers much more amount than they had invested. They could not have got so much profit by depositing that amount at any bank nor by investing that any other country. It is obvious from this analysis that the people of this country with the help of foreign capital labour much more and make foreign capitalists richer. The foreign capitalists has got much more rights but they are free from undertaking any duty towards voters of this country. Since foreign capitalists are fully free from social responsibilities, so to compel the poor of the country to work for enhancing prosperity of the foreign capitalists is equivalent to forcing them to commit slavery for the foreign capitalists. Since retention of the amount of Votership with the government is creating such compulsion before the voters. Therefore, opposition to the proposal of Votership cannot be accepted. (v) That both domestic capitalists and foreign capitalists behave with the capital bereft voters of this country like ox because both to them don’t share their profit with the citizen. Despite having similarity in behaviour of the both there is theoretical difference between the two. The assets of domestic capitalists existing in the country can be utilised by the voters of the country with the help of government during emergency period. The people of the country leave this capital to them with the hope of making much judicious utilisation of the capital of the country. The assets of the foreign capitalist existing abroad or existing in the country can never be used for public even during emergency period. Imposing the liability like income tax on the domestic capitalists the damage costs to the other voters due to their ventures can be compensated but to make foreign capitalists liable for the same is difficult task. The foreign capitalists include some such people who are out of the control of the society and who don’t pay any income tax in the plea that they have earned that profit by investing their money in other countries. They refused to pay income tax in the country in which they set up their industry by saying this that they will withdraw their money from the country if they are made liable to pay income tax. The foreign capitalists commit fraud to
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the country of which they are citizen. They also blackmail the country in which they set their industries. The domestic capitalists also are imitating the foreign capitalists who are free from all responsibilities. They are insisting upon their domestic government to exempt them from all kinds of liabilities like import tax, income tax, other wise they will invest their capital in another countries. The foreign government do not impose any import duty or income tax on them. Such system will not prolonged in which foreign capitalists are exempted from paying income tax and export- import duty and imposing all these taxes on domestic capitalists because both of them are selling their product in one market as the concept of common market has developed. The way foreign capitalists is blackmailing the country will be applied sooner or later by the domestic capitalists in blackmailing the country as well. He too will threat the government to invest his capital in foreign countries. He will forget this fact while giving threat to the government that capital he has made has been created by instilling the feeling of patriotism in the voters of the country. He has given a call to surf the domestic company. The people in turn in the name of country made a lot of flavour without taking full meal. With the hope that this capital of the country will be utilise by them in case of emergency. The voters concede the government appeal for patriotism and indigenous feeling and make a sacrifice above the average consumption because they consider that the government through income tax can refund the earning of the public any time whenever the need it. The voters of the country by seeing the picture of Gandhi ji on the currency of the country considered capitalists as trusty of their capital and they laboured hard and they even did not consume average consumption and kept them hungry. And today the same trusty wants to grab their amount, claim ownership on that amount, threat to invest that amount in foreign country, shirk the responsibilities from paying income tax. These are hundred percent dishonesty. Whether such dishonest fellows, be it domestic capitalists and foreign capitalists should be allowed to became prosperous by our own labour, honesty and our politeness? Since rejection of the proposal of Votership will enhance the amount of dishonest capitalist and world traders, their prosperity, their consumption and luxury. Therefore, rejection of this proposal means encouragement to the tendency of these honesty. (vi) That is also not fully correct that the government is inviting foreign capital for the welfare of the country. In fact the agreement of world trade organisation was executed under the pressure of world traders and the world trade organisation has handicapped the country which cannot stop any capitalists of the country or of abroad willing to invest in that country as per provisions of that agreement. Governments sovereignty got diluted and it virtually lost its control over world traders. It can be interpreted like this also that the world traders bypassing their respective nations got united at world level. No government is so powerful as to check anarchy, dishonesty, cheating and economic cruelty of these world traders. The governments almost of every country of the world have surrendered themselves before the power of united organisation of the world traders of different countries. Had the governments of different countries all over the world formed any common government then that world government could have forced the world traders to fulfil their duties side by side enjoying different rights. There may be three reasons behind not making common government of the world. Firstly due to defect prevailing in selection process of the rulers of almost every country don’t have intellectual capability to under stand the conspiracy of this new event in the world, its outcome and safeguard measures against the same. Secondly, the world traders could have given institutionalised guarantee to pay hefty amount to them. Thirdly, the world traders by misusing the power of money in form of donation could have erected governments of their choice by ensuring the victory of their own agents. There may be mixed impact of all the above three reasons behind this fact that the governments of different
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countries are not making any effort to form the common government at world level. Since foreign capital is being forcibly sent into country against the will of voters, so the plea of foreign capital against proposal of Votership cannot be accepted. Refer to the concern art of this petition and the annexure related to memorandum of W.T.O. to know about the steps taken by the governments of different countries under the efforts of forming world government and implementation of the proposal in this regard. (vii) That the entire capital lying in the country is not being utilised for good causes. Due to mismanagement of economy lands are lying vacant and unutilised, the machines are not working to their fullest capacity, some of them are lying without any function. Huge amount is being spent on the construction of buildings which could have been erected with 10 percent of that amount only. With liberalisation of consumerism fuels are being wasted, which could have been saved. Residential houses are lying vacant, no one lives in them. Capital is lying with the Banks there is no taker of that capital hence interest rate is declining day by day. This capital is so apparent yet foreign capital is being advocated and this is being done with the motive to get commission and to fulfil one’s vested interest. Therefore, the plea of exit of foreign capital cannot be accepted against proposed Votership. On the basis of pleas, information and analysis made in the above paras (i) to (vii) this argument that the flow of foreign capital will get dimmed cannot be accepted against the proposed Votership.
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EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVE WAYS OTHER THAN VOTERSHIP
THE REVIEW OF GOVERNMENT MACHINERY …………………………………………… 76 “LEAVING POOR AT THE MERCY OF THE RICH”- A REVIEW …………………….. 78 DICTATORSHIP OF THE POOR’ A REVIEW ………………………………………………… 79 GANDHIAN MEASURE ………………………………………………………………………………. 79 WELFARE STATE OF DEMOCRACY ……………………………………………………………. 80 RESTORATION OF MONARCH ………………………………………………………………….. 80 DECENTRALIZED ECONOMY …………………………………………………………………….. 81
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(A) The review of government machinery
(i) That in the monarchy the families other than King’s family were the servant of royal family. In view of the population and only human resources of production, no one could have even thought about the thing like poverty alleviation. Though despite this limitation contemporary religious texts mentioned about the duty of king to observe as to whether his subjects are getting meal or not. (ii) That in the feudalism the goal was to care for the facilities of the families of the feudal lords only and the remaining population was just meant for creating facilities for those families. Like oxen are just means to produce grains for the farmers. Therefore in the feudalism the value of subjects was not more than those of oxen, buffalo, donkey, camel and other tamed animals. In such social systems it was not possible to think of even poverty alleviation. (iii) That when promoter of society began to search king among the subjects and their families by ending the tradition of dynastic rule and thus monarchy came to an end and democracy came into force. In this stage poverty alleviation and check on economic disparity came to light because with the development of the machines there was increase in production and secondly the situation was created in which the houses of poor people were to be visited in search of ruler. If subject is so poor that they have no house to living, no clothes to wear, no food to eat, no money to purchase medicine no money to get education so that they could express themselves then it could have been very difficult to search a ruler because then the half fed with dirty clothes the wretched persons hid behind like cats whenever they saw any neat and clean fellows. It was difficult to identify ruler in the dirty settlement of the people. Therefore, in democracy the tradition to consider also a common people as ruler started theoretically and that kingdom was called as government and it was accorded the status of yesman. In this act of prosperity of the society the thing like poverty alleviation became essential. Then there should not be any house left which is dirty and bereft of facilities so that the ruler born in that house may be easily traced out and the said ruler may not live in slum or jungle. (iv) That prior to beginning of democracy the power of the might of military- police and the power of money were not separate units, the king was master of the both kind of powers. With the beginning of democracy these two powers got separated. The people, who were handed over the property and money by the king for the convenience of working of the royal system, began to consider themselves the owner of the same instead of public after monarchy came to an end. Some people committed this offence after giving due consideration and some people inherited that property from their forefathers as legacy. Therefore, they cited an example of tradition, which considered themselves owner of the property. But such people didn’t commit an offence deliberately. After end of monarchy there was confusion and chaos for some time. During that period the holders of the property got the person made that the ruler of their choice by calling him the choice of the people and asked him to appoint administrative officer. Since that king was elected by the holders of property, so it was natural that he accepted the subjection of the money holders. He didn’t dare to demand back the property from them which was given by the erstwhile king for the convenience of governance. When he didn’t demand that property back from them then the occupants of the property began to believe that the said property they had got from the former king had been given forever by the new government. The occupants of the property which they had obtained through power of attorney began to consider them as registered one without paying any amount against the same and during their last breath executed will in favor of their children by terming the same as private property. Thus, the public property got converted into private property and at later stage the owner of such property were to be called as capitalists and
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the people were to be called as voters and the operators of military and police were to be called as government. This government became dependent on the occupants of the property for its maintenance as property was not given back to it. For the maintenance of the government these occupants kept voters hungry and forced them to work. With the working of voters the production increased. Let at little stage work was conducted by iron hands i.e. machines and production was so much that there was not dearth of food to feed the population even if there is tenfold increase in it. With the increase in produce the occupants of property of state started to give the government and the people related to the administration were offered motor vehicles etc instead of food. This offer was called as tax. These occupants of the property took the entire system as their own in the name of democracy. Due to paying tax in cash these people misunderstood that they have four types of servants in the whole country- the servants engaged in governance, administrative servants, the servants working for their companies and the servants working in other industrial houses. As a matter of fact when money power got out of control and grip of the state, the occupants of this power made revolution in democratic set-up and made it ineffective. Now the supreme power was money power, the government became second line power and capital bereft voters became the third line power. The second line government power controlling the police-military got sandwiched between the supreme money power and the lower grade power of voters. The people related to government machinery began to feel suppressed because they sandwiched between the two but they didn’t express anguish correctly as they anticipated that their status may weaken. The government machinery hid their suppression because the people having money power who were at the position. They were capable to understand their anguish but they were cruel. And the voters placed at lower positions were kind enough but they were not capable to provide relief to the people related to the government machinery. The suppression of the government machinery created such an ulcer from which two types of puss came out – government corruption and falsehood due to this tendency of falsehood the people working inside and outside of the government system gave a call of alleviating poverty of the voters but in their conduct they worked for alleviation of their own poverty. This is obvious from this analysis that poverty alleviation is beyond the capacity of the present structure of the government system. This is possible either thorough kindness of the occupants of the property of the state or through the united power of the government machinery and the voters. In this proposal of Votership there seems to be greater possibilities of this unity. (v) That the supreme power of the state that is the people having money power gave credit to the democracy for ending dynastic control over government but they refused to end dynastic control over the power they were enjoying. Therefore, an arrangement of test was made for the children of DM, CM, PM to occupy the chairs of their fathers whereas sons of the millionaires are becoming from generation to generation without undergoing any kind of test. The people responsible for governance are not properly governing after visualising the dynastic privilege, they are all engaged in becoming millionaires. To become millionaires one should have original inspiration of every person because there is law to continue this power from generation to generation and for the rest of the powers there is system of test. When everyone will get involved in the race of becoming millionaires then national limit of consumption is bond to get cracked when everyone will stand in queue of consumerism without following this limit then there must be a reserved group of slave voters for serving the rich people. This is obvious that some of the people will be reserved forever for living below poverty line if dynastic privilege of money power is not checked.
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(vi) That it obvious from the points (i) to (v) that since the occupants of the property of state began to pay tax to the government machinery after they extracted money from the very capital of the state, so they began to consider themselves greater than the government. Since government was seated on the thrown of the king so the people related to the government began to consider themselves bigger than the king. When the issue of poverty alleviation came up, the government sought opinion (order from the great kings) who pay tax for defining poverty. Since these people were proud of their legacy of the past related to monarch. Therefore, they prescribe from the view point of a doctor that the person don’t having six breads at each meal, six meter clothes in a year, a room of six square foot should be considered as poor. While giving such order, they forgot this fact that in democracy all power of the country lie vested in subject and therefore each voter has basic right on the half of the amount of average property of the country. Since definition of the poverty line is being fixed on the basis of values of monarchy. Therefore, poverty will not come to an end till this definition is not rejected. The concepts of Votership has since rejected this definition, so now poverty alleviation is inevitable.
(B) “Leaving poor at the mercy of the rich”- a review-
That poverty cannot be finished even by leaving aside the poor at the mercy of the rich because mercy of the rich is like a trunk of an elephant. This trunk goes towards the poor by observing their painful eyes. The rich puss that amount in the bank of the poor so that the trunk of his kindness comes back to him. It is obvious that donation given by rich is influenced by pain of the trunk of their kindness, not influenced with the needs of the poor. Since inspiration to donate comes from the pain of kindness. Therefore, poverty alleviation of the poor is not his object. Even when a goal of any policy is set, nevertheless, many times that goal is not achieved and when poverty alleviation is not the goal of donation of the rich, then the question of poverty alleviation through this means doesn’t arrive. The poverty didn’t come to an end by leaving the same at the mercy of donation of the rich, rather the rich gained more richness by evading tax in the name of serving the poor. The langar, charity foods should be considered as economy of compulsion instead of ideal economy because helpless people are given foods in the langar, temples, mosques, ashrams and the people dining at these places nourish their body but their self respect is dead. Whereas pleasure to leave comes with one’s self respect. The people willing to give donation for the langar orphanages and ashrams will not like to take regular food with their family member there in. This proves that the charity food given due to kindness cannot be any measure to alleviate poverty. The government run with the democratic values must provide every voter the minimum capacity of purchasing power so that any voter is not forced to go to charity food by killing by his or her self respect. Experiences have also proved this that many of the people by running these charity foods are satisfying their pride and ego in the cover of mercy. These charity foods are not the means of poverty alleviation rather these are the means for satisfying the ego of these people. These people have same pride and ego which used to be lying with the king of erstwhile monarch. These people are under the same ego and they considering themselves as kings and the poor as their subjects offer foods to them. This is the remnant of the mentality of monarch. Which cannot be acceptable in policy determination of democracy. Votership will hell in ending these remnant of monarchy. With having purchasing power the people would like to take meal in hotels or in their own homes instead of taking foods in charity foods and huge amount which goes wasted in form of revenue of income tax in the name of serving the poor can be utilised in managing the society.
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(C) ‘Dictatorship of the poor’ A review –
That dictatorship of labourers by ending dictatorship of economically powerful persons going on in the pseudo name of democracy can be established to achieve the goal of poverty alleviation only when economically powerful persons reject the proposal of Votershipas means of minimum economic equality. If one is to choose between the dictatorship of 5 percent persons over the 95 percent people and dictatorship of 95 percent people over 5 percent persons, he or she (who doesn’t like economic rape to be committed on any one) will choose the system of rule of dictatorship of 95 percent people. So alternative of Votershipcannot be rejected till Marxist alternative becomes as a measure of poverty alleviation.
(D) Gandhian measure -
That the measure adopted by the Gandhian fellows cannot be an effective means of poverty alleviation for 4 reasons. Firstly it is not clear in this ideology as to whether machines should exit in economy or not. Gandhian people are always making experiments for adopting machine less production system but whenever they are asked explicitly – “should machines be removed?” then they begin to say like this- “Gandhi ji has stated at one or another places that he is not against machines.” Secondly if they are in favor of machines, they don’t tell as to who has got ownership over production produced by machines – or the owner of machine, or the government, or of the voters?. Thirdly Gandhian people are supporter of machine with less production system, then in no way this system is capable to maintain the present level of production. If machines are to be closed and the system of plough and ox is replaced everywhere, then 90 percent population will starve because the older economy based on plough and ox hardly fed the 10 times less population than that of today. Gandhian measures cannot be adopted for poverty alleviation; because of no one can agree to starve 90 percent population, so. Fourthly the insistence of Gandhian economy is existence of rightist economy, the spirit of which may be acceptable but its means is never acceptable. Since the conscience of a rightist fellow is focused in particular period of the past, so he begins to advocate the economy, ruling system an social system of that period in such a style as if he was gifted with celestial sight. He demonstrates the good aspect of that period which he advocates but he doesn’t turn his attention towards ill aspect of that period. He presents the system of past as model system of the present but he doesn’t keep any concern with the challenges of present. History goes up in its way and the system discarded once doesn’t come back again but an ant sitting on any bolt revolving on round periphery begins to feel the path is of circulars shape, likewise the rightist observing the repetition of some events begin to visualise that history repeat itself. Therefore, they retain this hope that the system of past will come back again and with its coming back our social value will increase again. Since they have some feeling of anticipatory kind so the competence of Gandhian people about economy can be dotted but their intension and honesty cannot be dotted. Since competence of economy is doubtful so the so called economy and ruler system of the advocacy with the name of GRAMSWARAJ cannot be accepted as means of poverty alleviation. Refer to chapter- 8, 9.1 a-(xv) related to utility and implementation in this petition for more information about this subject.
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(E) Welfare state of democracy-
That the present ruling system based on dictatorship of economically powerful persons in the name of democracy is also not capable to alleviate poverty. Let us see some example. Firstly the government made a provision of Rs 28000/- crore for the storage of food grain in the budget of 2004- 2005 in the name of welfare state. Whereas provision of Rs 8 crore only was made for the distribution of food-grains for the poor. Rs 28000/-crore is publicized in such a way as if entire amount has been provided for the food of poor whereas in truth only Rs 8 crore has been provided on this account. 60 crore needy Indian voters who hardly earn Rs 50 daily should have been given at least 60 percent amount in this budget i.e. they should have got Rs 14 crore but they got only Rs 8 crore. They are so many examples where in it is publicized as if the entire provision have been made for the poor and unemployed but the truth is that the benefit of the provision is mostly taken by officers engaged in government system, some contractors and some brokers. Likewise education services run by government machinery has been influenced by electoral politics. The children educated in these government schools are useful for their families and the nation in exception cases only government run health services is based on recommendation and it is being used positively only by the families connected to the people related to government machinery. Despite all efforts like Mid day meal, subsidized supply of ration to check starvation many families are compelled to commit suicide collectively due to poverty. Refer to the annexure 11.3 of this petition for more information about these families which committed suicide. The modality to work of the so called welfare government can be understood from this fact that it makes arrangements of liquor by spending the amount of tax on the department of Excise and by spending the amount of tax on the department of Liquor prohibition which tells “don’t consume liquor” the government continues to setup one ministry after another to satisfy the influential people, its makes an excuse for education for all and welfare of the poor. The limitation of the number of pages of this petition is restricting me to present detailed facts about this otherwise it is very easy to prove that poverty alleviation is beyond capability of so called welfare state run with the donation and tax of the economically powerful persons.
(F) Restoration of Monarch-
That the problem of poverty cannot be solved even by restoring the monarchy. In such system the poor will be left at the mercy of royal families instead of the rich one. The poor look at hope towards the capitalists that they may get something from them and tomorrow they will look at the royal families for the same. They didn’t get anything in past nor will they get anything in future. Had monarchy been capable for this the people could not have rejected the same. Secondly, the percentage of the poor was more in the monarchy system than this system of welfare democracy. Though in the so called welfare democracy no such king will ever come who with his kindness will alleviate poverty because he has to run his rule at the behest of cruel economically powerful persons. From this point of view, the monarchy may appear more suitable because there is possibility of taking a kind hearted king born in any of its generation. In the period of 200-400 year a kind hearted king assume the throne whereas in the so called democracy of the present the throne has been reserved for ever for the king committing economic cruelty though it is one of the qualifications for the king of present democracy that he should act to be a kind fellow at least from his tongue. In the present era in which huge production is being made by machines, more than 50 percent of the population cannot be kept to suffer unbearable pain like poverty for 200-400 years so the plea for restoring monarch for poverty alleviation also cannot be accepted.
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(G) Decentralized economy
That the argument to adopt decentralized economy for poverty alleviation also cannot be given. Firstly for the reason that the possibility of this argument has become bleak at least for the period till World Trade Organization is present to protect world market system. Secondly, some of the items can be reserved to be produce by the small scale industries only, though it is a very difficult task. The sale of the items so produce is impossible task because the same items produced through heavy machines in other countries can be imported. Thirdly efforts should be made to distribute purchasing power instead of distributing the means of production because the production and distribution system becoming united at the global level. In the present era the means of production has become just like distribution of the spare parts of the machines to be used for the distribution of the water. The engine cannot provide water if its spare parts are in different hands. Likewise the present level of production cannot be maintain if means of production are distributed among different hands. Fourth reason is this that the people advocating the centralized production and distribution system unconsciously advocating the adoption of rightists economy and feudal economy and ruling system. Which is just like falling in another marsh after one comes out of one marsh. Though they don’t know about this. Fifthly the people advocating the decentralised economy don’t tell about that institutionalised structure by which the present level of production can be maintain, poverty can be alleviated, cultural diversity can be nourished, consumerism doesn’t grow and money is also not centralised. The reasons given in above paras (i) to (ix) make it clear that the system in the name of decentralised economy which is mentioned time is again doesn’t provide any clear institutionalise system, therefore, this plea for poverty alleviation is not so convincing which can be accepted. It is proved on the basis of explanation, pleas, conclusions and analysis given in the points of the above paras 1 to 9 that no other measure other than the proposal of Votership can alleviate poverty.
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WHAT IS BENEFIT OF VOTERSHIP?
FULL CONTROL OVER CRIME MOTIVATED BY ECONOMIC CONSTRAINT…………………. 83 DEFINITE ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY …………………………………………………………………… 84 EXPERIENCE BASE CONTROL ON POPULATION ……………………………………………………… 85 EVOLUTION OF CASTE SYSTEM BASED ON WORK ………………………………………………… 85 INEVITABLE CHECK ON CORRUPTION …………………………………………………………………… 86 EVOLUTION OF PATRIOTISM ……………………………………………………………………………… 92 ECONOMIC JUSTICE WITH ECONOMICALLY DALITS ……………………………………………… 92 RELIEF FOR WOMEN FROM HARASSMENT ……………………………………………………………. 93 EFFECTIVE CHECK ON SABOTAGE OF TALENTS BORN IN THE POOR FAMILIES …………. 93 THE RISE OF AN AUTOMATIC RELIEF SYSTEM DURING NATURAL CALAMITIES ……….. 94 TREATMENT OF MENTAL DISABILITY OF THE NATION …………………………………………….. 95 RESCUE FROM UNWILLING PROSTITUTION AND REHABILITATION ………………………… 96 PEACE TO THE SOULS OF THE GREAT MEN …………………………………………………………… 96 LIABILITY TO COMPENSATE ON MULTI-NATIONAL COMPANIES …………………………….. 98 INSURANCE OF CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRACY ……………………………. 102 CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS ………………………………………………………………………………… 105 EFFECTIVE CHECK ON THE PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT …………………………………… 106 SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS, RELATED TO - FOOD, DRINKING WATER, HOUSING, EDUCATION AND HEALTH ………………………………………………………………….. 111
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1. Full control over crimes motivated by economic constraint-
(a) That if government by way of implementing proposal of Votership checks economic discrimination being made by itself on the basis of birth there would not be any person who may commit any crime in self defence after becoming suppressed by economic constraint. (b) That any person in the above manner once joins criminal world in his future. Their life may have three directions. Firstly if he succeeds to remove his constraint by committing the offence even for shorter period, he gets motivated to adopt that crime as source of employment. Secondly, he will not turn again toward that crime if once his constraint is removed in any manner after the first crime he commits provided good tendencies and sociability prevail in him in effective way. Thirdly his constraint may not be removed and he commits another offence and he may be apprehended by the police. After his released from jail criminal trial becomes a vexed issue for him. He was already facing shortage of money and now he needs money to defend his case. This two requirements motivate him to commit the third successful offence. If he fails in his effort and gets apprehended by the police then he faced with economic burden to fight two court cases. The police after looking at his record skip to the conclusion that he is man of criminal nature. Due to this conclusion of the police he is always in the list of suspected criminals whenever any incident takes place in that area and many times when the police fail to trace out the real culprit, they send that fellow in jail and file charges against him. This may end the task of the police but the problem of the society begins because that fellow doesn’t have any other option than to adopt crime as a profession. He has to earn for his family and burden the expenditure of cases genuine and false registered against him. He suppose to present now and then in courts or to leave in jail. So even he cannot go somewhere else to do another business. As a whole the society and that fellow both will be in trouble till he is alive. With the regular amount he may get in the name of Votership, he will not commit his very first offence and thus the chain of crimes will not get start. (c) That any sensible person looking billions of rupees a man gets in his succession and not getting even hundred rupee for himself may get agitated in the same manner Mahatma Gandhi was agitated when he has pushed off the train, a person belonging to downtrodden community feels after he finds a separate glass for himself in the family of an upper cast, and the sensitive son of a poor man feels to see the life long poverty for himself and compulsion of his father for labouring hard while on the other hand he sees his friend ( the son of the farther) moving in a car after he comes out the school. If the son of a poor is not so sensitive, he will adopt the profession of his father unhesitatingly. And if is so sensitive and he could not achieve his target by way of his education then he achieves the same by becoming a
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great saint or becoming a great politician, or becoming a great criminal. If he is crazy for a social prestige, he become saint or a politician. If he has craze for social respect, he gives priority to become saint or politician but if he has craze for becoming industrialists he may become a criminal. Sine Votership will provide this assurance to him that the parliament through succession Act has made the son of an industrialist a millionaire on the basis of the birth and that very parliament is going to give some regular amount on the basis of birth to the sons of such father’s who could not acquire anything. Votership will effectively check the ill tradition of punishing the son for the misdeeds and incompetence of his father. With this the dreaded criminals who are operating the rackets of criminals will become the industrialists operating big companies and society will get rid of criminal outfits. (d) That some people turn into criminals in their self defence after they suffer economic constraint. Some sensitive fellows operate criminal outfits after they are agitated by economic discrimination. But the people who believe in doing some work motivated by money, if they don’t get such opportunities, the economic disparity encourages them to turn towards crimes. Such fellow want to talk their mother when they see the signboard the STD booth but they are not in that position. They want to ride the swift motorcycles but they are not able do that they want to enjoy by sitting in side bright and luxurious car but they are not able to do that. They by looking towards consumer means may begin to feel as to how much rich some of the fellows are. How much poor he is, why such economic gap exists and who has created this. If this show of economic disparity gets the layer of consumerism inherent inside his mind and his aspiration of minimum consumption doesn’t get fulfil he may develop anger against the persons enjoying economic disparity. He feels like that the people enjoying consumerism are taunting against him and one day the fire of revenge compels him to commit another criminal incident. Then starts the cycle of events describes in the above para (b). The regular amount of Votership will meet the small aspiration of consumption of such people. They will not take any risk of committing crime by discarding such happy moment. It is obvious from the the above para (a) to (d) that the proposal of Votership has capacity to check the crimes to be caused by economic constraint, economic discriminations and economic disparity.
2. Definite alleviation of poverty-
(a) That regular amount of Votership will successfully alleviate poverty even if definition of poverty determined in undemocratic manner by the government of India and the World Bank is taken into account. Government of India considers the person as poor who doesn’t earn at least Rs 14 daily. The World Bank consider those Indian poor people who are not in a position to earn Rs 50. At the rate of Rs 50 the
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number of poor in India is around 60 crore. Since in the proposal of Votership half of the amount of average gross production is proposed to be given, which comes to around Rs 1750 per voter every month. Therefore, with the amount of Votership in India poverty will be alleviated as per definitions given by both the government of India and the World Bank. (b) That there is not any existing and much publicised any other measure other than Votership which is so effective for poverty alleviation. There is no doubt on the basis of conclusion and analysis made in the above paras (a and b) that poverty alleviation is possible with Votership.
3. Experience base control on population -
(a) The experience of many countries of Europe have proved that with poverty coming to an end no one feels requirement of more children. The entire Europe has overcome the problem of population increase after entering into this phase. (b) That the population growth rate in the families of downtrodden communities i.e. SC, ST and Muslims of India is almost similar. But the situation is this all together different in prosperous families of both of these communities. It proves that the poor families consider more number of children as their means of income. Therefore, the population growth rate in this families is much more. The proposed amount of Votership to be regularly paid to these families will ensure economic security of these families, so there will be automatic check on population growth of these families.
No doubt remains on the basis of conclusion and analysis of the paras (a) to (c) that the proposal of Votership is a powerful means to check the rate of population growth.
4. Evolution of caste system based on work
(a) That any judicious person cannot accept the social caste system of the status higher and lower based on birth. It has been proved in view of the provisions of the constitution of India, feelings of the constituent assembly and Dalit movements in this regard that caste system based on birth is a social evil and there is unrest in Indian society to get rid of it. Though the community shackled in birth based caste system is just stammering its unrest. This is not being said explicitly that birth based caste system has two branches. First one is economic caste system- due to which the son of a millionaire on the basis of his birth becomes a millionaire and the son of a poor gets engaged in such a work in which he has to spend his whole life in
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utter poverty. Second one is- social caste system due to which the person belonging to upper caste gets social respect on the basis of his birth and the other hand the person born in lower caste is subject to insult and he is consider incompetent and even untouchable. The person belonging to lower caste may break the forcible contract of the uncivilized fellow belonging to upper caste when amount of Votership is paid. Thus due to regular amount of Votership the people believing in caste system based on birth would be subject to social boycott and they would be compelled to become civilized one. On the other hand this amount to be given to the poor families on the basis of their birth will become a direct example of rejecting evil of economic discrimination based on birth. (b) That this evil cannot be eliminated just by taking measures of reservation against birth based social caste system. (c) That improvement is needed in traditional dalit freedom struggle and strategy there of to become free from this slavery of birth based caste system. (d) That evolution of work based caste system will begin to take place with ending of the evil of birth based caste system. It will provide relief to those honest thinkers who don’t consider the birth based caste system proper and justified as per textual norms. It is proved from information, logic, and conclusions given in the above points (a) to (d) that Votership is a powerful means to end birth based caste system and to provide an opportunity to work based caste system to get flourished.
5. Inevitable check on corruption-
(a) With the restriction of government sector corruption will get automatically restricted-
That trend of getting more money for work is acceptable in the society in which market system is acceptable. The opportunity to get more and more money is for the industrialists and traders. But the salary of government servant is fixed, he is not rewarded if he works more nor is he punished if he works less. This system makes him lethargic or encourages him not to work without taking money. In this situation institutionalised measures to stop corruption may be this that opportunities to earn more money for industrialists and traders must be restricted by ending the market system so that they may not become source of inspiration of corruption for the government servant. The second measure may be this that national feeling is inculcated among the government servants, their national characters may be built up and celestial fear may be shown to them that committing corruption is a sin. Experiences have proved that the education and understanding of the government servant are much more than those preaching discourse about character
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building and nation building. Therefore, preaching and discourse has lost its relevance before them. The national limit of consumption may not be acceptable to any government servants because the industrial and trading houses are not ready to accept this limit. Therefore, consumerism cannot be checked from one side only. Next measure may be this that stringent punishment must be awarded for the cases of corruption. Then the question may arise as to why the provision for stringent punishment is made only for the government administrator and servants only? The provision of stringent punishment wills violet the principal of equality on the point of justice. Secondly this stringent punishment will create a new department of corruption because punishment is given to the government servants and punishment is to be awarded by the government servants. It will take the way for the system of give intake for taking some relaxation in the punishment. If stringent provision for punishment should have been effective an any manner then the vigilance department of the government would have proved its miracle. There may be one scientific measure like this that the scientists of the department of genetic engineering may be asked to produce the requisite number of honest persons through test tube methods by making an invention. Since the gene related to honesty has not been detected yet, therefore this measure is still beyond human capability. They review of the above measures make it clear that corruption cannot be eradicated till market system is not a discarded. If market system is to be preserved then last measure may be this only that corruption and market should be allowed to go side by side accepting the coexistence of both is incurable disease as death is accepted. The proposal of Votership may check corruption effectively in this sense that the number of government department may be restricted to a very few. When there is least government department, there is least scope for corruption.
(b) Check committed by the system corruption
The act of succession is also a big source of inspiration of corruption apart from the above example of individual corruption. This Act makes the son of a millionaire, a millionaire without doing anything. The transfer of economic power from generation to generation in this way by a democratic parliament raise the question on judicial conscience of the laws. When the feeling of respect and belief is absent from any law then its creating doubt about legislature passing that law. Since the people related to rule and administration in government sector is normally highly educated, so they understand very soon the unjustified conscience of legislature. They without expressing anything against this to begin to plan billionaire overnight. Whenever any government officer and administrator commits any scam by violating government laws for becoming billionaire overnight he in view of the Act of succession may consider his deed as illegal but he doesn’t feel that his deed is immoral, irreligious,
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improper and unjustified. The proposal of Votership may assure the people that the government didn’t punish them for the inability of their father. The government made the son of a millionaire as millionaire by the Act of succession and on the other hand it through the principal of national succession made every son and daughter of the nation entitled to get regular amount of Votership. The amount will provide an opportunity of education and nourishment on one hand; it will reduce the height of economic disparity on the other. It may check corruption in effective manner which is caused due to influence of the tendency of demonstration effect.
(c) Check on consumerism-
That with implementation of the proposal of Votership consumerism which has become and incurable problem will also get restricted following are the reasons which give thrust to this conclusion- (i) That the market system creates a kind of lust in human being. He always thinks about the thing of enjoyment as to what he should eat, what he should get etc. He makes himself sick of lust of consumption so much that biotic addiction of the consumption damages all the organs of his body. Not only he is affected with the impact of this addiction rather health of other people is also get affected. Other people don’t get bread due to excessive consumption of that one fellow. The people are thus sick by becoming the victims of malnourishment. The people belonging to both classes the rich and the poor have become sick because there is no systematic check on the biotic addiction of consumerism. Medicines are not solution to this problem. Check on consumerism is its solution. The people will be forced to discard biotic addiction of consumerism after tax is imposed on the rich class for the amount of Votership. It may raise the level of health of the rich class also. (ii) That the people belonging to the poor class will begin to get full meal after they get the amount of Votership and thus they will safe their expenditure being made on diseases caused by malnourishment and when they are free from malnourishment they will become intellectually developed which may lead the nation on the path of progress. Thus the nation would be saved from the side effect of consumerism. (iii) That the lust of consumerism is like addiction of powerful nature of the lust of sex and liquor. All such addiction cannot be discarded by preaches and discourses. A drunkard doesn’t discard liquor, even if family is destroyed. Once a man develops the habit of visiting a prostitute, he doesn’t leave the habit even if the atmosphere and future of his family is in chaos. He does so at the cost of the future of his family. Likewise the person having lust for money cannot get rid of addiction of consumerism even if he may damage his health, his habit of consumption make the
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entire nation sick, and crore of people may die of economic constraint. A drunkard leaves his habit of taking wine only when he doesn’t get money to purchase the bottle. A person fond of sex leaves visiting to prostitute only when he doesn’t have money to pay the prostitute. Thus the tax should be imposed on the rich class to this extent that they don’t have basic purchasing power for purchasing the means of consumerism. Therefore, nation can be freed from addiction of consumerism by creating scarcity to proper extent which is possible only by Votership. (iv) That it is of no use to keep away the villagers of India from the consumerism, who are already malnourished because they don’t reach that level in want of money. Therefore the publicity, advertisement, speech, preaching against consumerism among the poor and villgers is misuse of time, money and energy and it is an act of self deception. The audience watch the artist walking on a rope in a circus, but they don’t start walking themselves on rope after they come out from the premises of circus. The people under the influence of addiction of consumerism cannot be improved by discourse, improving one’s own character or presenting an example of life leading without consumption so that people may follow this great man who renounced the worldly consumption. Thus the people in the grip of addiction of consumerism organised themselves camps for the preaching by great person against consumerism but they don’t believe themselves those preaching’s. They will listen to preaching and tell the others about that but on that very day they may go to market and purchased three cars. They will consume burgers in restaurant even if don’t feel hunger. They may visit a place by motorcycle where they can go on foot. They may go to the place by car by keeping all the seats of the car vacant, which might have been visited by the motorcycle. These people throw away the clothes which are not torn off. They live in the house alone in which four families can reside. They purchase medicine but they do not return the same if not in use rather they will throw it in dustbin. They will not go to the cheap hospital for their treatment due to their ego for money and their nature of demonstration effect. And they will go to the hospital which just loots money. They will invest their money in such companies which provides less opportunity for employment and produces the items consumed only by the rich class. They do not do household work themselves and engage domestic helpers just by paying few hundred rupee to them taking advantage of their poverty. They are treated like animals. These people will run in the park to shed their excess fat and thus show their neighbours that they don’t have time. They except from their domestic servants to get up early in the morning by four o’clock but they allow their kids to sleep till ten o’clock in the morning. They say that the presence of the poor is essential for the nation and oppose Votership lest domestic servants should be paid more amounts. It is obvious that addiction cannot be controlled by mere preaching’s and that will be controlled only by stringent laws like Votership.
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(v) The people who oppose consumerism artificially will not like the measure of Votership which may check consumerism effectively. They will suggest such measures which may publicise the move against consumerism and the people may sacrifice the means of consumerism happily. Unconsciously such person publicise against consumerism because he didn’t get an opportunity to consume this liquor himself. The people publicising against consumerism are willing to see tie on the neck of their sons. The person who calls themselves as hermits cherish desires in their hearts that their sons ride in luxurious cars and live in audacious buildings. They feel pride if they go in a party by car and they feel pity if they go by bus. Such persons also speak very forcefully against consumerism in the seminars. These examples set conclusions that the so called opponents of consumerism also will not support any such measure like Votership which may end the possibilities of consumerism for them and their kids. Such fellows will not express their anguish against the check on their lust rather they will take the excuse that development process will be blocked for opposing Votership. Therefore, one should not be misguided by the opposition being made by the so called anti consumerism people against the proposal of Votership. Information and analysis made in the above paras (i) to (v) make it clear that preaching, discourse, speech, advertisement the experiments of character building etc. will not check the lust of consumerism rather Votership can bring a check on it and thus nation can come out from the mesh of economic corruption.
(d) The provision of political donation and check on economic corruption-
The tendency to utilise the politicians and the political parties as puppet by the rich ones with their power of donation is growing day by day in Indian politics. This is an example of economic corruption in fact, which may come into control with the implementation of Votership for the following reasons- (i) That five percent of the amount of Votership is proposed to be given to that fellow who was given votes by the respective voters during the last Rajya Sabha election. The average per capita income in the country may be taken as Rs. 3500 hundred per month, the Votership amount is taken as Rs 1750 per month then the candidate contesting Rajya Sabha election who got 1000 votes, may get Rs 3,50,000 yearly as donation from the fund of Votership for undertaking social work. The candidate getting one lakh votes will be getting Rs 3,50,0000 (three crore fifty lakh) yearly (from Votership fund). This amount will be sufficient for any candidate to get associated with the voters. The candidates have regular touch with his voters will not required to spend money separately on advertisement for the publicity during his elections. If he acquires the means of personal luxury with that money then he may lose the number of votes during the next elections. Therefore, he will be forced to
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get associated with his voters. He will not required to spread his hands before the rich ones for political donations if he is going to get both vote and note (currency) from his voters and thus he will not be misused by the rich person in committing economic corruption. (ii) That the solution to the problem of political funding or donation through Votership fund will not solve economic problem of the political parties and politicians only but also solve the problem of honest capital holders because they will not be terrorised in the name of donation. Even such donation may be declared as illegal. (iii) There will be genuine democracy only when democracy is free from the remote control of those who give donation because till now in the name of democracy donorcracy is going on. (iv) That the people having capacity to donate commit an act of treason and economic corruption in two ways. Firstly they misuse public representatives and bureaucrats for their vested interests in lieu of donation and thus they execute their illegal activities. Secondly such people for their habits of consumerism break the national limit of consumption. Votershipwill check corruption of both kinds because they will not have as much amount for consumption to break the national limit of consumption. (v) That a person with few lakh rupees doesn’t have the capacity to donate so much amount that the politicians and bureaucrats may be misused for his vested interest. The person with crores of rupees acquires that capacity by which he may misuse the politicians after giving donation to them or he may himself become a politician or he by giving huge donation may ensure the victory of the public representative of his choice and may utilise that fellow later on in committing economic corruption. It is obvious that ownership of money to the extent of particular level where money power starts behaving like ruling (political) power. When a person gets such huge amount crossing this limit without any labour and undergoing any kind of test for the sake of succession then he deviates democracy and encouraged economic corruption. To give validity to the succession of such huge amount in excess of that limit is in fact undemocratic conduct like validating political succession. The anti democracy laws should be ended by determining the limitation of laws of succession. Information and analysis given in the above paras (i) to (v) proves that Votership is a powerful means for checking economic corruption.
6. Evolution of patriotism-
That love is also related to the money, money inculcates love. If parent don’t give money to their children and put a condition for them to work then children will not feel love for their parents. Give and take of money has been made essential in
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family and in most of relations. Relationship and family affair goes on only when one side take something and other side give something for vice – versa. The family relation get strengthened proportionate to the money involve therein. Relation with in laws and son in law is of such kind. Votership may cause same relation between the nation and the voters. It is proved from economics of the relations and love that the voters will always take care for the institution which sends money order every month in their names. The relationship between husband and wife is considered very intimate. In this relation also money plays vital role. The study made about the relations of husband and wife reveals this fact that money is a very big basis for love. Money is involved at every stage from the birth of a child to his death. Only the love for nation has been dissociated from money, it is expected free of cost. Therefore, love towards nation is rare. No one will get recruited in army if he is not paid. The person advocating the cause of love for nation is also not showing any mercy of the nation. He too is breaking national limit of consumption. Therefore, his appeal goes ineffective. The above analysis expounds this conclusion that exchange of money to create love for the nation among the sons and daughters of the nation is the last resort left. This capability is inherent in the proposal of Votership.
7. Economic justice with economically Dalits
That provisions of reservation to the government and administrative posts have been made to save the economic Dalits from atrocities of social caste system, which are defending self respect of the rich among the lower caste only. This reservation system has ousted 95 percent population of the SC/ST from the circumference of this security. In such condition regular amount to be paid in the name of Votership can only be the means of both social justice and economic justice for the 95 percent population of the poor SC/ST, around 80 percent population of the poor of Other Backward Classes and 50 percent of population of the poor voters of General category. By allotting lands in the names of these poor, providing means of production or giving employment to them economic justice cannot be dispensed with them.
8. Relief to women from harassment
(a) That in most of the cases women are harassed because they don’t have any independent source of income. Due to this they continuously bear atrocities of the husbands having the tendencies of a criminal and drunkard. They are not in a position to punish such husbands. Regular amount of Votership to be given to them will make them strong enough to fulfil the minimum needs of subsistence like bread,
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clothes, education, treatment etc. for themselves and their children even if they are left alone. Separation from wives will provide the husbands opportunities to get improved. (b) During natural calamities like earthquake the women not having any source of income are pushed in the prostitution. With the regular income of Votership they will be able to protect their lives and prestige even during natural calamities. (c) Regular income of Votership will protect the owner of those widows whose husbands die without making any deposits. Now with this amount of Votership the children of these widows will not be bereft of education and meal due to the death of their fathers. This will miraculously check the begging specially of women and of children. (d) Many of the women tolerate atrocities because they apprehend legal battle if they oppose the same. They are not in the position to accept the challenge of legal battle for they don’t have any source of income. The proposed amount of Votership will provide them this capability.
9. Effective check on sabotage of talents born in poor families
(a) That the theory of “positive mutation” of Genealogy has proved that this happening doesn’t differentiate between the families of the rich and poor. It can happen in any family. The child undergoing positive nutrition shows extraordinary competence when he grows. When mental set up of the child undergoes such happening, then he or she shows extraordinary talent. Due to this happening excellent philosopher, scientists, literary figures, artists are produced. If such happening takes place in a child going to take born in poor families, then society loses the scope of getting great persons. The amount of Votership will provide guaranteed economic security to every family, so such child born in any family will be develop as a great person through education etc. and secondly society will not be bereft of great contribution of such great person. (b) That had Mendell, the inventor of genealogy taken born in any poor family of the countries like India instead of Europe, then his father would have forcibly engaged him in his work and he could not have been so educated to understand that he has capability to become such a great scientists who is going to provide grains to entire human race for generations to come. If he could not have got an opportunity to develop himself then may be that the shape of the society all over the world should have been in the set up of aboriginals. One Mendell is capable to feed multi billions of people. The amount of Votership if protects even one such Mendell, the benefit of the proposal of Votership to the society will overshadow all hypothetical losses likely to be incurred by it.
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(c) That the implementation of the proposal of Votership new discoveries and inventions will come forth. In the present politico economic system the persons having capabilities to become scientists are forced to become hawkers, the persons having possibilities to become philosophers are forced to dig soil on the roads, the persons having possibilities to become saints are engaged in cleaning of drainage, the persons having capabilities to become artists make life long struggle for earning two times meal, the persons having the ability to become freedom fighters and great leadership qualities expend their lives working in the factories. Sabotage of the talents is much more dangerous and that of brain drain and it will come to an end with Votership. (d) On an average 70 percent population all over the world is poor. Therefore, due to existence of poverty human society gets the benefit of only three great person out of ten and remains bereft of the contribution of 7 great persons. When contribution of the great persons such as one Mendell, one Einsitein, is so much then it can be imagined the contribution of the great persons to come after poverty is removed. Sabotage of the talents may be checked with the amount of Votership. From this point of view the amount of Votership is also a long term investment for upliftment of human race. It can be said on the basis of analysis, information and conclusion of the above para from (a to d) that the proposal of Votership will definitely check the sabotage of extraordinary talent taking born in poor families and the talents will compensate the hypothetical shortcomings of or it if there is any.
10. The rise of automatic relief system during natural calamities
That during natural calamities such as famine, earthquake, cyclone in sea, draught, flood some people lose their lives and their immovable properties are almost destroyed. In such situation government and social institutions are supposed to provide immediate economic relief. In this relief system economic resources in large quantity are misused and extravagantly spent. Experiences have proved this that this amount of relief provides personal relief to some of the cruel fellows who are in search of such opportunities. Such a larger amount of the society and government reached to the corrupted hands so this cannot be called a proper arrangement. Collection of funds is advocated in the name of providing relief during such calamities. Natural calamities attack occasionally but under the garb of this the collection of funds has been permitted which has created calamities of poverty permanently on this earth. It has been observed that despite all sorts of donation, charity fund, government grant, voluntary service natural calamities compel many one to adopt begging and prostitution. The proposed movable property to be provided regularly in form of amount of Votership cannot be destroyed by any
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natural calamities. Big professional companies will come to provide their services in their sector for the greed of this amount, and their services will proved more effective than the services provided by voluntary workers. Thus the amount of Votership will play the role of and automatic relief system during natural calamities.
11. Treatment of mental disability of nation
That poverty cause concern in the mind of human beings. Constant worry ness paralyses thinking capability of mind. The families without thinking anything take work from their hands only, not from their minds. The families which utilised their brain lag behind the other families in economic race due to worry ness. Like wise the country of which don’t take work from their minds lag behind the other countries in the matter of development. In production the share of physical labour is constantly on decline whereas the share of mental labour is on increase. It is obvious in view of these tendencies prevailing in economy that in this world only such countries will progress which provides more and more opportunities to their voters for thinking. In India 70 percent families are trapped in economic cluches in such a way that their brains don’t work. The country which has locked the minds of its 70 percent voters can only imagine to run in the stadium of world economy but in reality it cannot run. The amount of Votership will create strong intensity for thinking and mental labour in the 70 percent families and whole nation will get rid of mental disability. Every person by making self introspection will choose any field as per one’s interest and capacity and start working with full might once he or she gets and assurance for getting this amount regularly. The people having capacity to do social service will get involved in social management, the people having capacity to work for nation building will get involved in the work of nation building. The people caring for character building will get involved in creating value based structure. The people having scientific temperament will get involved in their research, the people having literary capacity after becoming free from making search for money will be able to express their hearts, the artists will be dedicated towards their arts and they will not divert from their targets for the sake of bread. The people eligible for making huge production for the nation will handle the industry and trade sector.
12. Rescue from unwilling prostitution and rehabilitation-
That many women are sent to brothel house after they become widows, they are not married for the poverty of their parents, they lose their houses in natural calamities, they are trapped in the hands of pimps of brothel house or for any other reasons. There is a long spell of rape with them. The entire women in brothel house who are victims of access physical and mental torture are just carrying on their
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corpse. All of them want to come out from this profession or they want to take out their children from this profession but neither society accept them nor do have any alternative source of income so that they may create a society of their own after leaving this profession without caring for the acceptability of the society. Since the amount of Votership will reach regularly in the houses of these women also who are victim of rape so the women who have not adopted this profession willingly may come out of this mess and may create and may start their new lives. Refer to paras 8 and 10 related to utility of this petition for more information regarding this subject.
13. Peace to souls of great men-
(a) That during the struggle for political freedom of India the entire freedom fighters used to dream that India will be free from poverty, unemployment, compulsion prevailing everywhere after the English leaves India. Since amount of Votership will reach of every household so it may provide peace to soul of freedom fighters though belatedly. (b) That Mahatama Gandhi after winning political freedom had asked Ghanshyam Das Birla to begin the struggle of economic freedom but Gandhi was assassinated before starting this struggle. Nehru had adopted mixed economy to create possibility for economic justice which was sabotaged in 1995 by domestic and foreign global traders. Bhagat Singh and other revolutionary martyrs had sacrificed their lives by taking political freedom as means of economic justice. Ambedkar consider political freedom without economic freedom as without any value. Dindayal Upadhya considered democracy without economic democracy as fake one. Vinobha spent his whole life in penance for justice of distribution. Anandmurti had planned for world wide struggle to give guarantee for the minimum needs. The aim of the socialists party of Lohia and JP was to eradicate economic injustice. Karl Marx was the world symbol for economic justice and it is needless to give introduction about in this regard. With the implementation of the proposal of Votership the souls of all these great men and the men who dedicated their lives for this afford will get celestial peace which cannot be described. (c) The great scholars of Economics dedicated their whole lives in search of economic theories. Almost all of them had reached this conclusion that economic disparity is essential for development but when this inequality breaks all limits then it becomes destructive for society. The proposal of Votership will always restrict in equality within limit. Therefore, the society will derived benefit of the researches made by all economists and their departed soul will get peace. (d) That this was conclusion of great philosopher Plato that the subjects will live in trouble till a philosopher king ascends the throne of the kingdom. The proposal of Votership will have its impact on the world economy; its management will be
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made only by such world economy which can be carried on by such king only who stands the test of Plato. Ved Vyas and Lord Krishna were also of the same thinking, who struggled to hand over the throne to a truthful scholar like Yudhistir after dethroning Duryodhana. Tulsi Das described that the king should be impartial like Ram was. Had Tulsi Das been alive today his Ram should have been such an impartial who could not have maintain impartiality in case of his wife and washer man only rather he could have maintained impartiality towards every country of the world. Since only an impartial person can manage world economy and judicious approach of such person only can satisfy the whole world. The philosopher like Dechart, Burkeley, Spinoza, Lock, Kant, Hegel, Firebakh, spencer dedicated their live in search of such a structure of the state which can be the means to provide maximum happiness to the maximum number of persons of the state. Angels and Marks took out the world humanity from unbearable economic pain. Burtend Russel has drawn the whole structure of political values of future which can be considered as compass by the present society. In the modern age Nehru, Vinobha, Anadmurty, Osho Rajnish, Herald lasky and Mahrshi Arvind, all of them have describe narrow nationalism irrelevant and they have told about the formulae to acquire competence for governance and administration in world ruling system. Osho used to say – “The future generation may ask the present generation of today as to whether not a single thinker was born therein who could have said that imposing forceful condition to work for getting meal is immoral.” The effort to such for the amount of Votership, the pangs of its receiver and the formation of the donating institutions and thereafter the political exercise for increasing this amount will create such wave of political reforms all over the world from which that structure of state will be created, which may satisfy the source of all the above great persons. (e) That from creators of Rigved, Upnishad, Smiriti and Sutra Granths to the contemporary founders of various sects and communities made till today, Non has ever said to consume arbitrarily and consume without caring for others. All of them has advised to leave with the principal “live and let live” and with patience. Mahavir Swamy and Mahatama Budhh were strong supporters of non collection of thing. Jesus Chris had said in clear terms; - “if you have got two clothes to wear then give one cloth to another.” Had Prophet Mohammad shahab been in favor of economic disparity, he could not have made such clear comment on major factor like interest creating disparity. The founder of Arya Samaj Swamy Dyanand Sarsawati had opposed economic and political centralisation in every manner. Taking inspiration from Mahatama Gandhi his contemporary saint Acharya Shriram Sharma followed during his whole life the line of average income of the nation as limit line of consumption. The proposal of Votershipis now going to accord legal status to simple life styles of all saints. Because all of the above saints had dedicated their lives in
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publicity of human civilisation believing in the principal of live and let live. All the shows will get eternal peace. It is proved in view of information, logic and analysis of the above paras (a to e) that various universal branches created by God in form of various ideologues from the proposal of Votership.
14. Liability to compensate on multinational companies
(a) That the multinational traders who run multinational companies broke economic boundaries of these countries by initiating a move. They went to every country and told the rich people of the countries that they were ready to give good items in less prices but your government in the country is becoming a barrier. The consumers told of on the line of the proverb, “ no one can do anything if two persons are agreeable to a thing” we will purchase the good items if we get at cheaper rates, be it manufactured by domestic company or by the company of another countries. The sellers and purchasers got united by crossing the boundaries of the countries after they saw profit in that. The name of their organisation was earlier GATT and later stage it was named as world trade organisation. All the governments of almost the whole world have lost their rights of economic management because of breaking economic walls of the countries and the global traders and the world consumers got united. The industries and business run with economic help of government began to close and the rate of wages for labourers came down with increase in unemployment which enhanced the number of the poor. The global traders acquired richness very rapidly and there was increase in the range of middle class also but with the increase in unemployment poverty has got many of those in its grip who were earlier lying on the boundary of middle economic group. It is obvious that global traders got benefit and getting the same at the cost of meal for the poor present in every country. This is also need of the hour of economic justice that since the global traders are responsible for increasing in poverty in every country, therefore, liability to pay compensation to the poor goes back to those poor only, therefore the liability to compensate those poor goes back to the global traders. The part of amount of that Votership which is proposed to be deposited in the accounts of the poor. The responsibility to pay that amount goes to world trade organisation or to the world consumer voters of our country which violates national limit of consumption of our country or it is responsibility of both. (b) That the work related to economic management is not possible without cooperation of the government. Because the existence of system of exchange depends on the very existence of the government. Regulation of currency market is prerogative of the government. Economy of each country was use to be controlled by
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the respective government of that county when every country had market and economy of its own. The world trade organisation affected very deeply this right of the state. Now there is common economy at world level. But no agreement was reached between the political parties of the world nor was any world government formed to regulate this economy. This is obvious that the economic power has taken the ruling power in its trap like the cat traps the mice. The proposal of Votership will erect and world organisation of poor voters all over the world in the same way the slogan of consumer rights erected an universal organisation of the world consumers, which is unavoidable to continue belief in state and justice. (c) That the state sided with the movement of the world traders and world consumers of the country in the GATT agreement and signed on that agreement. Now in view of increasing number of the poor it is duty of the government to prepare a draft of one more agreement at its own level and to advocate the cause of the poor of its country in the World Trade Organisation. This is the duty of the government of the country to prepared the draft of this agreement and to form world opinion by leading the movement for getting financial compensation to the poor because the poor due to their poor economic condition cannot carry out this movement themselves. It will become clear that the government represents economic interests of the global consumers of the country only and it doesn’t represent all voters if it doesn’t work for the compensation of the poor of its country. The proposal of Votership will be a litmus test to know that to whom this government represents in fact. (d) That this is an ignorance question as to why a foreign institution like the World Trade Organisation should pay financial compensation to the poor of the country? This argument cannot be accepted for six reasons in total. Firstly this is not a foreign organisation rather it is an organisation which represents economic interests of global traders and consumers of different countries only. Its office is located outside our country. Secondly this is an organisation which commits massacre of the poor of the country by using global consumers and traders of the same country. Therefore, this is an accused of costing damage to the poor of this country. Thirdly this organisation through its regulation has created hotchpotch in the traditional objectives of the country, government and votership. Therefore, the address of its office cannot be treated in a foreign locations in traditional sense of ‘foreign’ not should there be any barrier in reaching to this office. The visit of this place should be free from the rules of visa-passport. This is an irony that it has not been made free as on date. This shortcoming should be removed. Fourthly the area occupied by WTO cannot fall in the jurisdiction of any country. This is a common place for global traders, the global consumers and global poor. This is the common duty of the governments of the member countries and the global traders to make such an arrangement by which the global consumers of every country may visit. This
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place without any restriction to increase their rights and to stage democratic demonstration demanding financial compensation for the poor citizen of the member countries. Fifthly no country can claim any right on the road routs or rail routs going to the office of WTO because it will be a deed like restricting the poor voters from reaching the doors of their accused in case any country claims its right over this route and charges tax from the persons visiting WTO office. Sixthly the government which cannot compel global traders and consumers of the country to respect the boundaries of the country doesn’t have any moral right to restrict the poor from visiting different part of the world in the name of limitation for undergoing economic struggle for the interest of the poor in the world. (e) That the WTO is bound to realise that much amount as financial compensation from the global traders and the global consumers which is necessary for making regular payment of the amount of Votership to all the poor voters of all the member countries. All the poor of the world have equal right over the amount of income tax recovered from global traders because they get benefit at the cost of their loss. There must be a world agreement for making regular amount of Votership available for the poor voters of the country and for realising this amount in form of world income tax from the world traders. For this purpose government of India will have to play its role otherwise it will be proved that around sixty crores poor of voters in India have lost their government and their parliament. The proposal of Votership will provide an ideological infra-structure to India for struggling for this agreement before world trade organisation. (f) That government of India may ask WTO to an amount of Votership. The government can utilise open scope available in the name of “social issues” in the present that agreement. (i) That the government of India should come out from the role of mediators between the global traders and the poor of the country if it doesn’t find itself capable to realise regular amount of Votership from the WTO for the poor of the country. It will be proved that the government is a bogus arbitrator between two groups if it doesn’t come out from the two or it doesn’t realise amount of Votership. This will be the duty of every poor citizen to disobey such government since it is just acting to hold arbitration between the two and it will be unavoidable for the sensitive rich voters too to cooperate such mass disobedience.
(g) The government should assume the role of genuine arbitrator between WTO and the poor because- (i) That experience shows that government of India work on the policy of converting an imaginary India at the forum of WTO but it hardly take care of majority of poor voters of real India. Therefore, even if India may create a space in the competition of the world market as per the methods of WTO no assurance can be
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given that the huge population of the poor will be able to realise their share in this prosperity. (ii) That policies of the government of India foretell that only labourers will be made victims for creating space for India in cut through competitions of the world market and the remaining population doesn’t have any intension to make economic sacrifice nor the government is willing for this and even the government doesn’t have caliber to do this. They the persons of the country having economic prosperity have developed the habits of ignoring the command of the government since sovereignty of the government has got weekend. Why the persons belonging to poor community of India should extend their cooperation in maintaining world marketing system. If they are not in position to take their share in prosperity of imaginary India. (iii) That government of India should involve its entire energy of ministry of external affairs in the chapter-9 (2,3,4) and form world opinion for GAP agreement so that the poor of the country may assured of the world market system. (iv) That the poor of the India will not become ready to work like ox in form of an alternative to energy for the sake of providing luxury to few handful people in the name of ‘prosperity for India’ till the government of India and Indian legal system don’t express their agreement in principal for adopting the system of economic democracy and do something concrete in this regard. (v) That this will become a proven fact that the government also represents economic interest of the poor when it places the gist of this petition as memorandum on the world platforms in the same way it strengthens the voice of industrialists and traders of India and thus it may show its concern for the poor from its deeds instead of its mere speeches. It is obvious from the analysis of the above paras (i) to (v) that the poor of India may cooperate for strengthening India in world market system only when government of India place the role of genuine arbitrator between the poor and the WTO.
15. Insurance of continuous development of democracy-
Due to the proposal of Votership the development of democracy will get insured. Following are the reasons for this-
1. Enhancement in love for democracy-
(a) That the amount of Votership will enhance economic fraternity among the people. Every child get equal share in division of the property of their father. The amount of Votership will create such feeling in the voters that they are getting the rent of the net property of their father of nation.
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(b) That the voters will understand the value of their personalities as voters. Once they begin to get regular amount in the capacity of the voter, with this every voter will come to know this fact as well that this amount will continue till the democratic institutions and democracy gets strengthened. Thus it will create same love for democracy as the children feel love for their father when they get money from him. (c) That the voters will feel a sense of responsibilities towards national assets when this regular amount begins. The citizen will come to know the amount of Votership may get increased when national asset remain secured, and maximum utilisation of the same take place. Thus this amount will create economic fountain of love for the nation.
2. The increase in the number of invigilators of democracy-
(a) That today the off springs of the industrialists who are getting billions of rupees without any labour by way of the Act of succession as passed by parliament or the politicians getting success in electoral politics who are getting a life long economic security are the direct beneficiaries of democracy. The few handful people belonging to the both of these two categories are fulfilling their duty for the democracy. For the remaining people it is just a game or they remain silent acceptors as because as they don’t understand this properly. (b) That highly educated unemployed spread all over the country will be absorbed in social working sector because by way of contesting elections and garnering few votes the source of income for the five years can be created. Thus the electoral system would become more effective and transparent they will least possibility for the wrong elements to be elected. With increase in reliability of electoral system and the system to be introduced under which only the persons having appropriate qualification for democracy would be elected, it will enhance peoples faith in democracy. The people engaged in the work of social change by deviating from the mainstream, will adopt electoral machinery as means of change by which democracy will be strengthened. (c) That the voters after getting regular amount may pay 2 to 4 percent of that amount regularly to the voter counselors. With this every voter will get a trained political advisor and democracy will get its messenger in every village. People will come to know about the expectation of democracy from this. Democracy will get strengthened when democratic civilization will get enhanced.
3. Increase in voting percentage
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That almost everyone will like to caste his vote during elections when his regular income will increase by casting his vote. For this purpose the election commission should give damage compensation allowance of rupees 100 to 200 hundred in lieu of economic loss incurred on account of holding up the work on the polling date. Voting allowance will be disbursed smoothly through the same channel with the smooth functioning of distribution system of Votership. Due to amount of Votership and voting allowance there will be high increase in the voting percentage.
4. Means of economic democracy-
That the amount of Votership will establish public participation in economic power. The people involved in production will produce keeping the requirements of voters in their view because now onwards produced items will be purchase by the voters. Thus the public will get suomoto right in the process of economic decision with the help of the amount of Votership. (a) That when ruling system of democracy will start sending some regular amount every month in personal account of every voter, the people will feel same attachment for democracy the children feel for their parents who give them pocket money regularly. (b) That only the people who are likely to become millionaire on the basis of birth based on succession are working like watch dogs for defending political democracy and amount of Votership will enhanced the number of such invigilators and thus automatic system for defending and developing democracy will get emerged. (C) That there will be surprising increase in the number of persons who caste their votes in election on account of proposed cash amount to be given in the name of Votership. Today there is 50 percent voting and with payment of the amount of Votership 90 percent voters will turn out for voting. (d) That the right to vote established minimum political equality and the Votership will established minimum economic equality. Vote became means of political democracy Votership will proof as effective means of economic democracy. The mass got the right to rule the nation by right to vote, from Votership the mass will get the right to regulate economy. The people got the enjoyment of political freedom with right to vote, they may be enjoying economic freedom with the Votership. The people got equality in the matter of political opportunities on account of vote, Votership will provide minimum equality of economic opportunities to the people. Vote proved as weapons of struggle for getting political justice, Votership will be proved as weapons of struggle for getting economic justice. The governance started with the will of the people and so by means of Votership economic power too would be run by the will of people. Vote stopped the evil of political discrimination
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on the basis of birth. Votership will check economic discrimination being made on the basis of birth among the voters by the way of vote every one got participation in political power on the basis of birth, Votership will provide participation to all in economic power on the basis of birth. (e) That the person is considered as own who first gives money and then accepts work. There is a feeling of alienation for the person who gets the work executed first and pay thereafter. On this basis only every one has a feeling of belongingness for his or her parents because they never put any condition while giving pocket money. The owner of a company is a third person for the labourers because he first get work done and then pays money to the labourers. The owner of the company doesn’t apply this rule on his kids. He gives first money to them, then arranges for their education and thereafter takes care for making them healthy and thereafter only or expects to work from them. On this yardstick of nearer and others, the government of so called democracy are imposing the condition to work before giving anything. It is obvious that on one hand the government present itself as guardian of the voters and on the other hand it considers the voters has as its domestic labourers because it doesn’t give anything without the condition to work. The proposal of Votership will help the people to know about the government as to which one is favorable as their own or who is like others as someone else. The government which considers the voters as its own, the government which is real representative of the voters will not put any condition to work before giving the amount of Votership to its voters. That government will relish by giving the amount of Votership to the voters in the same way as the parent feel happiness after they give some amount in the pocket of their children. The voting rights given on the basis of birth and the votership awarded by such government may be called political votership but the same cannot be called as economic votership. When government give right of Votership along with giving right to vote on the basis of birth, then and then only it will be proved that the government has provided economic votership as well. A voter can consider any government as his or her economic government when that government give regular amount of Votership to that person on the basis of birth. Be it a national government or a multi national government, the capital that government may exit within or outside the boundaries of the country. It hardly makes any difference. In the present era of world economy the traditional meaning of votership, government, country, a foreign country cannot go on. (f) Votership will provide the control of economy in the hands of the people. The right to vote established the political democracy, like wise Votership right will establish economic democracy. Refer to the evidence 2 in this petition related to constitutional amendments for the definition of economic democracy.
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16. CONSTITUTIONAL PROGRESS
1. It will fulfill the desire of the Constituent Assembly- (a) The ancestor of the nation participating in the struggle for political freedom has never dreamt of reservation of poverty which is being made today in the name of development and nationalism. Regular amount to be paid to the voters in the name of Votership will reject the reservation of poverty, and will reduce economic disparity. It will fulfil the desire of the constituent Assembly which has been mentioned in proper place as the Directive principals of the constitution. (b) That the constituent assembly in article 51 of the above chapter by expressing its view point has expected from the state of the union of India that the state will make an effort to maintain international peace and harmony.
2. Equality before law (article 14 and article 15)-
That there is clear check provided in the constitution on the tendency to discriminate among the voters on the basis of birth. Even then union government is making the children of the billionaires as billionaires without undergoing any labour whereas it is providing reservation of poverty to the children of the poor without making any investigation and test. The Act of succession is grossly violating articles 14 and 15 of the constitution will appear that the government has attached more importance to this Act in comparison to the constitution. The proposal of Votership and the prayers made for restricting succession are demanding to check economic discrimination being made among the voters by the state on the basis of their birth.
3. The preamble of the constitution-
(a) That the preamble of the constitution of India says that India will be develop as such nation in which all the people will be provided equal opportunities but the above contents makes it clear that on account of some laws someone is born with golden spoon in his mouth and the other one is even deprived of milk of his or her mother because she suffers from malnutrition. This matter of this petition and the prayers of Votership will be proved as miles of stone in providing equal economic opportunities. (b) That the preamble of constitution of India also mentions about developing India as socialists, democratic republic. In the process of execution of the proposal of Votership succession will be automatically restricted, economic disparity will be controlled, there will be check on the tyranny of market, the labourers will get opportunities to bargain against their labour and thus Indian republic will be developed as socialist’s republic.
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17. Effective check on the problem of unemployment-
(a) With increase in purchasing power- (a) New companies for the production of commodities for new costumers- that with the regular payment of thousand of rupees as Votership to every household, the purchasing power of the people will get increase. With this even the people who never dared to stand before the shops will go to the shops in market to purchase commodities. The number of such person will be more than half of the total population of India, who don’t dare to go to a shop to purchase even essential items in crisis of money. The commodities required for these new costumers will not available to the shop and hence they may order the companies to supply more goods and they may raise the prices of items till new assignments reach therein, so that some costumers may be send back. When the company will begin to get ordered from big and small cities, then the company will have to set up new factories for sending new quantum of goods in the market. In the process of setting of new company, they will have to provide many people with employment. Thus in the proposal of Votership three times increase in employment is vested with the companies. (b) The way the number of costumers asking for goods will get increased and in the same way there will be requirement of more and more teachers, doctors, nurses, barbers, tailors, schools, hospitals, postmen, peons of schools, clerks, bus drivers, conductors, telephone operators, and the persons repairing watches and cycles will be required because with regular income the peoples will start sending the children to the schools whereas they were avoiding the same earlier. The people will begin to visit hospitals for short-live disease will start reaching that place. The persons will start boarding in buses, trains whereas they used to avoid visiting such places. The people not knowing to how to purchase bicycle will purchase bicycles. The people not tying wrist watch will purchase the same. The people who get clothes stitched once in two years will get clothes stitched frequently. The people wearing dirty clothes will start wearing neat and clean and pressed clothes. The people will start purchasing any item or service for entertainment which they earlier used to avoid. Every house will be in position of television. Like wise three times new costumers will join drug industry, hospital industry, educational institutions, buses, trains, bicycle industry, watch industry, telephone industry, electronic and radio industry, textile industry, entertainment industry, postal industry, soap industry etc. There will be three time expansion of the above sectors to fulfill their requirement. And three times more new persons will get employment in comparison to the number of persons working at present in these areas.
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(b) From political financing -
That with the expenditure of 5 percent amount of Votership of the voters on the services of people representation huge political finance will be managed. It is obvious from the contents of this petition that the candidate garnering one thousands votes in election will be getting 3, 50. 000 rupee yearly for the five years and the candidate garnering 1 lakh vote will be getting rupee 3 crore 50 lakh yearly in this way. One political worker will get work at every 500 hundred voters. In view of 68 crore voters in India, at least 1,3,60,000 people will get employment in the field of political management.
(c) From ATM network- (a) That with regular payment of Votership to all the voters, they will start visiting banks and teller accounts and utilising ATM machines regularly. If one ATM machine is to be installed at every 2000 voters then in view of 68 crore voters 3,40,000 ATM centres will be required and for which the same number of security guards will be required. So many persons will get employment. (b) With small amount reaching in the hands of crores of people finance circulatory system will get extremely accelerated. 5 times more new persons than the present number will stand in queue at the bank counters. With the 5 times increase in the numbers of costumers, banks will be proactive and they will required to open 5 times new branches of banks by which new requirement of bank mangers, clerks, field officers, peons, security guards will be made. Thus the people 5 times more in the number will get employment.
(d) From increasing the number of bank staff-
A complex network of banks and their branches will be required to distribute amount of Votership regularly to around 68 crore voters of the country. If one branch of the bank is to be opened at every 1000 people, then at least 67,0000 braches will be required. If minimum ten percent are required for 1 branch then around 67 lakh people will get employment in this field.
(e) From industries like bicycle etc -
That with the amount of Votership reaching in every house holds there will be increase in the demands of bicycle, watch, radio, soap and other general consumer items. Large number of new industry will be required to be set up for the production of these items. In these sectors large number of employment will be created.
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(f) In the profession of Voter Counselors-
That with the amount in reaching in every house hold a new profession of voter councilors will have to be started to keep vigil on that money and to utilise the same for the good purposes. The voter councilors will check this as to the amount of Votership is reaching regularly to his costumers or not. If there is any barrier in this regard, he will remove the same with the help of public representative working at the level of political finance. Voter councilor also ensure that his costumer may not misuse the amount of Votership. If his costumer might be using that amount of Votership in consuming liquor or in any criminal activities, the councilor will advise him to utilise the same for the cause of good purpose. If he doesn’t concede, the notice from the government magistrate will be to issued to him and if that notice doesn’t bring any improvement in him, the magistrate will order the respective bank officer to pay the major portion of the amount of Votership to his family or his well wisher after leaving some amount for him till his conduct gets improved. The bank officer will have to ensure execution of his order. Voter councilor will execute the order of magistrate on the basis of fees. Which will be 5 percent yearly of the amount of Votership to safeguard his economic interest and to raise his stand before the appropriate authority. One person can honestly fulfil the task of maintaining professional relation with 100 persons honestly; he may live in regular contact with them. He may not do justice with his work if he tries to make contract with more than 100 persons as in that case the possibility to misuse money will be on rise. Hence it will be appropriate to ban legally for making more than 100 persons as his costumers. If 1 voter councilor gets 5 percent amount of Votership of 100 persons as his fees, his monthly income will be around 4 thousand or more. There is 68 crore voters in India, for this number of voters 68 lakh voter counselors will be required. Such number of persons will get employment in this way.
(g) New recruitment in vertical secretariat-
(i) That the common government of the countries of south Asia will have to be formed and a secretariat for its various ministries will have to be set up with a view to fulfil financial needs of governance and administration of south Asia. To honor the people belonging to downtrodden community living in villages, to establish the communal harmony, to work for the agenda of the nation such as operating and maintaining Navy and Air force etc. and to implement objectives and prayers mention in chapters -9.2(f,h), 9.3(b)-3,5,7 of this petition. The officers, clerks and peons will have to be recruited in large number in this secretariat. At least 81 lakh voters of various countries will get employment and salary from the common government for handling financial system of around 9 lakh villages, localities, falling
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in the entire areas of South Asia even if the number of the persons working in the secretariats of the government, its police station, courts, in the offices of parliamentarians is to be taken around 50 lakh, then so many persons will get employment in various departments of the common government. This number is one third of the total number of staff in union of India and its provinces. Refer the concern part of contents for the constitution of villages, total 32 pages of this petition to know more in detail about the maintenance of administrative officers of all villages- localities and village administration of South Asia looked after by the common government. (ii) That two vertical governments, one for the eastern world and the other for the western world, will have to be formed to safeguard justice relating to distribution and production of the world economy, to safeguard the quota of purchasing power relating to production and distribution in the world economy and to work on the agenda falling under the jurisdiction of the proposed government of eastern world, for which large number of staff will be required for their secretariat. When 150 lakh staff are required to run the country like India having the population of 110 crore, then the eastern world government representing the common interest of around 350 crore population of eastern world will required 477 lakh staff as per the proportion of government of India. Even if this number is reduced to half at least 238 lakh people will get employment in the government of the eastern world. If the western world government required equal strength of staff then it comes around 477 lakh staff if taken together. (iii) That the need of a world government to run the world economy as per democratic aspiration of the people of the world. Is being felt for the last many decades. There is no income tax department of the world to realise income tax from the income generated from the world market, like wise there is not excise department or and toll tax department….The world government will require a vast secretariat to transact the business of agenda of the world government such as protection of human right, protection of environment and protection to the poor of the world from economic constraint even if equal number of staff as is there for the governments of western world and the eastern world, recruited in the secretariat of world government, 477 lakh persons will get further employment. The estimate of the above paras 1, 2, 3, proves that : 477 + 238 + 238 + 131 = 1084 lakh persons may get employment through inter-continental secretariat if ruling system and economic democracy through Votership is adopted. If it is looked into the proportion of population, its 6th part i.e. 10 crore 84 lakh persons living in India may get employment.
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(h) Internally and intuitionally inspired employment
That the persons who will not get employment in the government directed and industry directed jobs or the persons who would not like to use their energy in such jobs, will undertake the work as inspired by their inner voice. It will be sort of intellectual employment or spiritual employment or religious employment. The amount of Votership will be used to nourish their bodies and they will work as per internal inspiration of God. Today there are many persons in the world economy, who had taken born to work in fact with the inner inspiration of God. Such people with the help of the amount of Votership will adopt spiritual employment after forsaking worldly employment. As on date at least there will be 20 percent vacancies if the places of worldly employment are vacated. In their place new recruits will be made therein. In case 150 lakh employees working in India voluntarily leave worldly employment, at least 30 lakh new vacancies will be created.
18. The solution to the problems related to food, housing, drinking water, education, and medical-
That with the implementation of the proposal of Votership the problems related to food, housing, education, medical etc. related problems will get automatically solved. The basis of this conclusion is as follows-
(a) Solution to the problem related to food and the receipt of enumerative prices to the farmers-
That the market system has a distinct nature. The price of those items becomes more if there is increase in the number of persons to purchase it. The first priority of the holders of the amount of Votership will be to purchase food items. The huge amount being spent by government on food storage will be saved because now onwards the need to distribute cheap grains lying in the government godowns will come to an end. The people with amount of Votership will purchase grains in a nearer market. Thus they will live their lives with more prestige and dignity because the problem of standing like beggars to purchase items of sub standards quality of the fair shops will come to an end. With money in their hands they may purchase good commodities, they will bargain for the same and lead an honorable life. And thus they will engage in constructive work. When such huge number of customers will come to the market to purchase grains then the prices of grains produced by farmers will be just double and they will begin to get remunerative prices. With this the farmers will not commits suicide on one hand and government will not come to
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the trouble of determining minimum support price along with there will be savings on account of huge expenditure which is usually made on the storage, distribution and transportation of grains. Now the government by coming out of this system may concentrate towards essential work. The present food policy and agriculture; policy are mutually exclusive. With the increase in the prices of grains by the government the poor of the entire country begins to face the situation like starvation. If government wants to reduce the prices of food for the poor the farmers hardly get even the cost of their produce. The proposal of Votership will end this inner conflict. It will be good for both the farmer and the poor. After implementation of the provisions of the Votership the demand for increasing the price of grains made by the farmers cannot be called as the unjustifiable demand.
(b) Solution to the housing problem-
That the investors, industrialists, businessmen, engineers, contractors, property dealers etc. will concentrate their attention towards the small towns and villages from big cities in view of the payment of regular amount of Votership to the voters. New architectural technique will develop on account of Votership with this technique such houses will be constructed which can be purchased on instalment basis by the families having monthly income of Rs 5000, that may be saved and the nation will get rid of these highly corrupted government departments. When people will gained the capacity to purchase houses, employment opportunities may be created on large scale in the housing construction industry. At least three times more number of the persons than the present one will be engaged in this sector. The present housing policy of the government is so much defective that there is very low budget for the housing heads has for the poor and mere publicity is made with regard to allotting houses to them. With the few budget government has for this purpose is spent on these colonies based on the hypothetical sale and the buildings come into dilapidated condition before the people come to live in them. When people will get direct money, they may construct houses as per their requirement and utilise them properly. The nation will get rid of the unnecessary expenditure being made by the government in the name of housing on account of Votership and most of the people will get houses rather in better shaped to living.
(c) Guaranteed solutions to the drinking water problem-
That there is acute problem of drinking water in India. This problem is not identical everywhere in the country. The areas having drinking water problem needs huge infra-structural investment for solution to this problem. Since this water is to be used mostly by those who lack money. Therefore, there is least possibility to get the
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amount of investment back. A large investment can be made in that sector provided water may be sold and the consumers of that area pay back the amount. This investment can be made in digging ponds, installing pumping machines, developing canals, constructing dams or making permanent arrangement of importing water if this water is not distributed free of cost rather there must be charged for that. Regular income of Votership will create capacity among the people to purchase water on one hand and a vast infra-structure of drinking water may be erected in that area if the people pay half of the amount of Votership as donation for one year as drinking water is the main problem for them. Since government has lost its sovereignty, therefore it cannot make arrangement for drinking water in the areas facing acute shortage of water by way of imposing tax on them who consume bottled water at the price of Rs 18 per liter. The prosperous men will not accept imposition of tax on them by the government, therefore government just spend some amount on drinking water by which it may get publicity and show the concern for drinking water while giving advertisements and speeches with regard to this. The amount being spent by the government on this count is like drop in the ocean. The problem of drinking water cannot be solved in this manner. The public representatives of the areas facing acute shortage of drinking water reaching in the fora of union governments begin to deceive the public and they behave like the representatives of the nation in spite of being their own localities and thus they exert their energy improving themselves as “great nationalists and politician of national mainstream.” Since the water problem is not identical everywhere in the country, so the voice of the public of the respective areas having shortage of water gets dimmed behind the so called nationalist slogans. The public representatives suddenly change their stands for the sake of getting tickets in the next elections, sometimes for the sake of the slogan of nationalism of the party they belong to and the whole nation is suffering from the so called national representatives. The system of public representation has become fully useless. Unnecessary amount is being spent in the metropolitan cities while the whole country is facing acute shortage of money and no one bother for that because the public representatives change their stand. Crores of rupees will be chanelised every month in the constituencies without any help from the public representatives on account of Votership. Due to this amount now the public will be getting regular money to purchase water and the country will become free from the problem of drinking water. It will not make any difference even if the public representatives by changing their stands turn to party representative. (d) The rise of cent percent educated society.
That large number of persons in India are illiterate even today. Due to defective education policy of India older generation was illiterate but even new generation is going to remain illiterate. The country will have to face consequences of
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illiteracy of the new generation for the further 50 years. For the movement the English may be held responsible for the illiteracy of the past generation as country was slave. But who can be held responsible for the illiteracy of the new generation? The architects of the present education policy are in fact, responsible for the illiteracy of new generation. They are of the view that the government located hundreds mile away will be able to educate children and adults all over the country through the staff of the education department. The architects of this policy failed themselves in educating their own kids when they were not inclined for pursuing studies. They dreamt of educating the people all over the country through the staff who get government salary. As a matter of fact the petitioners of this petition are of the view that education is a by product of prosperity of the family. Therefore, prosperity of every household is to be ensured if education is to be made fundamental right. The government should so concern for giving guarantee of regular income to the people. The children of the family will get education themselves if the family gets that guarantee of prosperity. The guardians of that family will themselves take care of as to whether their children are studying or just playing. The education officers of the government are not required to go after those children. The architects of present education policy want to gain the big thing like educated nation without making any sacrifice. Therefore, they don’t make schemes concentrating on education rather they concentrate on money. With the amount of Votership sufficient amount will reach in the appropriate hands for education. Each and every person in the country will be educated within ten years of the implementation of the proposal of Votership.
(e) Health insurance for everyone-
That medicine is one of the basic needs of the people. There are three categories of medicines- basic medicines, general medicines and specific medicine. Any citizen cannot be deprived of basic medicines like pain relieving, antibiotic medicines in the name of development country. There are three categories of diseases as well- diseases caused by malnutrition, diseases caused by carelessness and diseases caused by specific reasons. With the regular income of Votership the problem of malnutrition will come to an end in every family. The people with money in their pockets will start taking medicines of Rs 10 to 20 right from the beginning of disease itself. The treatment of diseases will be started and it will not get prolonged due to carelessness and economic compulsion. The government cannot take guarantee of curing diseases of specific nature which required costly treatment. The percentage of costly treatment in comparisons to the overall diseases a person faces in his life is nearly 2 percent only and more often such disease is incurable. The person has only this choice in his hand as to whether he should die in cheap hospitals or in costly hospitals. Costly hospital is a private affair of the people. This is not a duty
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of the government to look into this affair. To construct hospital by spending billions of rupees for the costly treatment of the few well off people by neglecting crores of people who can be treated at Rs100 per head only, is an undemocratic attitude of the government. Health insurance can be undertaken with the amount of Votership and the treatment of specific diseases which require costly treatment may take place with that insurance. The expenditure to be made on the hospitals will be saved and the insurance companies will manage hospitals themselves. All the people will acquire the capacity to pay the instalment of insurance with the help of the amount of Votership. The policy of the government which is as such snatch breads by reserving poverty for the people in the name of development, open hospitals for them when they fall sick in want of breads, has made the entire nation sick. The nation will not become free from this problem till poverty is reserved. Undoubtedly, Votership will make the nation disease free.
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WHAT WILL BE THE SOURCE OF FUND FOR VOTERSHIP?
ETHICS TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR PROVISION OF VOTERSHIP …………………… 116
PROPOSAL OF VOTERSHIP AND THEORIES OF ECONOMICS………………………… 119
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(A) ETHICS TO COLLECT FUNDS FOR PROVISION OF VOTERSHIP
That the plea that the government doesn‟t have money for giving Votership is baseless as only half of the amount of average national income is proposed to be given for providing economic birth right to the voters. In fact, the opponents want to propagate against Votership in the name of shortage of money. The amount of Votership in fact, belongs to the voters which have been diverted by the government elsewhere. So, the government is not to give the amount of Votership rather to return the same. The financial resources to collect the fund of Votership are as under- (i) That the amount of Votership is the collective money (not public money), which has been given by the government to some of the citizens considering them specially useful after obtaining the consent of citizens at large. Now it is the duty of the government to take back that amount from them and to refund the same to the genuine owners. (ii) That the persons to whom government had entrusted the amount considering them specifically useful now consider themselves the owners of the same and therefore they are utilizing the same on beautification, audacity and luxury instead of utilizing it in collective interest. (iii) That personal use to the said collective money is like the situation in which a bank cashier utilizes the amount deposited in the bank in the construction of his house taking it as if his personal money and government should help that cashier for this reason that he has paid small piece of that amount as tax to the government. (iv) That in the above circumstances the amount received by the government as tax revenue may be termed equivalent to the amount of bribery. The prosperous people believing in fun and luxury and are the donors of this amount and the governments take this as bribe. (v) That in view of the above type of bribery in the name of tax revenue, misuse of collective fund of the citizens, constant rising the education standard of the citizens, the deterioration in the character of the people engaged in the area of public development; the group of petitioners as citizens of the country reject power of attorney executed in the past to spend the amount of Votership in the name of the so called specifically useful fellows of society i.e, industrialists and public representatives for the development and they also request the government to refund their amount. (vi) That it is expected from the government that it will impose new tax for defending democracy and its development and will refund at half of the amount in cash of this collective fund of the citizens collected by way of tax to the people as their economic birth right, so that economic decisions of the union of India may be possibly run through voters will. The petitioners propose to name this tax as democracy tax through this petition. (vii) That the giving the succession right of unlimited amount directly means deprivation of the majority of the people from this right. Therefore, the limitation of succession right will be enacted and the property in excess will be sold and the fund received there from will be treated as the amount of Votership as because this is the part of the collective money of the citizens slipped from their hands due to the succession Act. (viii) As per the democratic value no one is treated superior or inferior from the economic point of view but it provides power of attorney to spend a portion of the collective money to these people who are capable to run the system of production, distribution, utilization and exchange as per democratic values. This power of attorney shows the glimpse of recognition of economic disparity in democratic societies too which is mistaken as a genuine recognition of the same by some people who consider the economic right given through power of attorney as their hereditary privilege. The money deposited in a Bank if not withdrawn for generations, it may create an impression to the banker that it is his own money and it would not be an amazing thing if the son of banker claims the ownership of that money on the basis of the provisions of the succession Act. The property in excess of the per capita average property is the collective prosperity of the citizens. But the people in occupation of such property are utilizing the same as if they were its owners. Making use of this property is in fact misuse. The person who appears to be owner of such property is liable to pay the
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tax in proportion to the quantum in excess of his or her average share of the property being utilised for personal use. The amount of tax to be realized in this way is of in fact, the amount of Votership refer to the evidence -4 of this petition for detailed information about prosperity tax. (ix) That there is not even and equal impact on the technology of production and distribution system and of the machines for the citizens in the economy. The benefit of machines was this that it increased production but at the same time, it snatched the work of many hands. In the labour market work force increased and then demand decreased. As a result of this the price of labour market is constantly decreasing. Because of this purchasing power of majority of citizens has became very low. “Machine have become a curse for majority of the citizen because they are not in a position to purchase surplus products being made through the machines as they lack purchasing power and even they are not enjoying their share in surplus time and leisure created through it. In such circumstances, this is the duty of such fellows who are enjoying leisure because of machines and getting the earnings made my machines considering the same as their personal property. To compensate those citizens who are suffering loss from the machines and the government should collect this surplus money as tax taking it as source of the fund of Votership. (x) That water, forest, land, minerals, chlorophyll etc. are the natural resources, which play greater role in production. Every citizen has unconditional birthright over the production proportionately to the contribution made by these natural resources in GDP. The people who are deprived of purchasing power due to the policies of the government, are even deprived of the consumption of their share in natural production too. This is the sign of economic slavery in which the share of monetary people in surplus purchasing power is snatched by the capitalists and the moneyless people are forced to work in lieu of meal. This is the absolute duty of the democratic government to liberate such economic slaves. The government should not feel desperate even it has to make massive amendments in the structure of the state to fulfil this holy cause. (xi) That the share of a voter in gross domestic product as given by nature could be understood by this story in the better way. In Uttranchal region, the forest named as Rajaji Park is located, in which a saint used to live under a tree. Most of the time he remained in the state of meditation searching the laws related to society and creation. Whenever he felt hunger, he plucked fruits from trees and ate. One day when he raised his hand to pluck fruit, the forester hiding in nearby bush attacked saint‟s arm with his Lathi. The forester had come there on intelligence report of forest. The saint with attack fell down on the ground and exclaimed with pain and said, “My dear son, what fault I have committed?”. The forester shouted at him- “This forest now belongs to the „government of India‟. I am forester. You have been stealing government fruits since long. So, I have made a raid today to catch you. You have been caught red handed. Now come with me. Now I will not allow you to live here in this forest. The saint was at loss. He was surprised with all this. He took care of himself and said, “Dear son ! I have been plucking these fruits since my childhood. This is the very basic of our life. Has the man namely „government of India‟ purchased the entire forest?” The forester replied, “No, it has acquired. It has declared this forest as government property after passing laws. Now you can‟t steal fruit. Come, I am arresting you. The forester pushed the saint in jeep and carried him to the town of Dehradoon. The forester dropped the saint amid town and told him to eat apple lying on the cart alongside the road. The saint contemplated all about the formulas and laws of the government and market working behind this incident and remained hungry for two days. On the third day, he reached near the cart and picked up an apple to eat. And while he was biting the apple the cart owner slapped him taking him as a mad man and the saint fell down on the ground and a piece of apple came out of his mouth. The saint exclaimed with sorrow, “Oh, my son, a gentleman calling himself a forester had asked me to eat these apples as eating fruits of the forest is an act of theft. What problem you have in it.?” The cart owner showing him a hundred rupee note, said, “Bring this currency note first, then you will get apple.” The saint asked, “Dear fellow, wherefrom I will get it?” The cart owner replied- “Look at the front, dirty drainage is being digged out. There is a man who is contractor of that work. Go to him and ask for a spade to dig drainage. Dig it whole day
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and in the evening, that man will give you this note. When you will give me this note, I will give you this apple. “ This story gives the following conclusions- Firstly- The market imposed a condition to work before hungry saint and the saint was forced to become labour. His mental fertility got weakened and his body became trailed. Secondly- It is obvious from the story that apple of the forest is a collective property given by nature. Thirdly- The condition to work can‟t be imposed for the consumption of this common property. Fourthly- A portion of currency is printed for the sale, purchase and exchange of this property of the forest. Fifthly- The currency printed in the name of exchange of the product like apple of the forest is amount of Votership over which all the citizens have equal birthright. Sixthly – When the currency printed in the name of apple of the forest will come back in the hands of the saint in form of Votership, he will again start his research and the society will get its scientist back, cultural downfall of the society will rise again. Seventhly – That it is the duty of the government to collect this amount of Votership after imposing „Nature tax‟ and to distribute the same equally among all the citizens. (xii) That system of exchange plays major role in production and distribution of any economy. The system of exchange can‟t be carried on market forces alone, the co-operation of the government is also needed. Every country has its own Central Bank of which issues currency of that country. The Central government appoints the office of this Bank authorized to imprint currency. This central government is constituted by the public representatives. The public representatives are given this right by the citizens voting for the constitution of Lok Sabha. It is printed on the currency- “I promise to holder … to pay.” It means that the governor of the Reserve Bank makes this promise as representative of all those citizens. Following are the conclusions related to the system of exchange- Firstly:- That the central Bank i.e. the governor of Reserve Bank of India promise to pay the holder some amount. All the citizens of India equally authorize him to make this promise. Secondly:- That the issuance of currency can‟t be carried on without combined effort of the society and parliament which executes this combined effort. Thirdly:- That the issuance of currency has a role in earning of money by the Industry and each citizen has a share in the private profit proportionate to the contribution of the currency. This portion of profit should be evenly divided among the voters. Fourthly:- That the central government, state governments, Districts and blocks have got their share form the Industrial world whereas Gram Panchayat Samitis, chiefs of the families and individual citizens are to get their share. The amount of Votership is in fact that kind of share to be given to each citizen. Fifthly:- That imprinting of currency notes is not possible without the help of parliament and government, The Reserve Bank entrusted with the task of printing currency note has to renew its license (renewal) at every five years. Since the government charges fees for renewing different licenses. So each voter can charge fees from the Reserve Bank for renewing the license of imprinting currency note. The amount of Votership is in fact this very fees. The government can impose a new tax as „exchange tax‟ to make regularly payment of this fee to the voters who elect it and it would an important financial source for the Votership fund. (xiii) Refer to the chapters- 3.4(m,o), 7(h) 9.2 of this petition to know more about this issue. The logics analyses and information made in the above points (i) to (xiii) prove that it is not difficult at all to mobilize money for the regular payment of the amount of Votership.
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PROPOSAL OF VOTERSHIP AND THEORIES OF ECONOMICS
1. The Glimpse of history of monetary policy ………………………………………………………. 120 2. The statements and revaluation of the economists about currency ………………… 120 3. The statements of the economists about gold standard ………………………………….. 121 4. The statements of the economists about inflation and deflation of currency …… 122 5. The statement of the economists on public finance and their explanation ……… 125 6. The statement of the economists about taxation and their explanation …………. 128 7. Some useful figures ………………………………………………………………………………………… 131
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1. The glimpses of history of monetary policy
Prior to 1861 the work of releasing currency notes was executed by the presidencies of Chennai, Calcutta and Bombay. After 1861 government of India started the release of currency notes. In 1920 proportional Funding system was adopted. In 1935 Reserve Bank of India was established and currency notes were to be released against the reserve of metal fund. In 1956 the minimum fund system was adopted.
2. The statements and revaluation of the economists about currency-
(i) “Every man has knowledge of currency but can’t define it in appropriate words.” ‘Robbertson’
(ii) “Though currency has much importance in our lives, yet it is very difficult to describe the definite and systematic form of the same.” ‘Prof. R.P. Bhatt’
(iii) “Currency has two aspects. Firstly, it is a unit of counting, secondly it is legally acceptable.” ‘Prof. Hatrey’
(iv) “Currency is not heart of our economy but definitely it is blood inflation of the same.” ‘Paul Trescott’
(v) “Currency is the axis around which economics revolves.” ‘Marshall’
(vi) “Currency is the most basic invention of all invention ever made by man. Every branch of learning has basic invention of own: For example wheel in the instrumentation, fire in science, vote in politics, Likewise currency is an essential invention in the social life and business side of economics and man on which remaining things are based.”
(vii) “Currency is good servant but bad master” ‘Robbertson’
(viii) “Currency is valuable but dreadful invention” ‘Robertson’ (ix) “The wickedness of currency has now acquired life and no religion and philosophy is capable to oust it now.” ‘Ruskin’
(x) The view of the main petitioner Bharat Gandhi about currency- a. “Currency is like inverter of electricity, currency stores the laboures of others in the same way inverter stores electricity.” b. “Currency can give the same benefits which were used to be derived by atrocious feudal lords from the slaves put in the encircled Cage. So with the power of currency the labour of one’s share can be shifted to the others. This currency gives dual benefits to the idle fellows- savings
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on account of maintenance of the encircled cage made for the slave and all benefit of the slaves are available all the time.” c. “Currency measures social utility of goods and service of anything and pressure of demand in the same way barometer measure air pressure. More, the demand, more the price in currency unit.
(xi) The conclusion of the statement of the economists-
Definition of the economists about currency proves that- a. Currency is an weapon which can be utilised for both protection and massacre. b. Currency gives power to the forces of economically higher class to rule whereas pushes back the lower middle class towards economic slavery. c. Final decision about the definition and working-effect has not been taken yet, the possibility of its evalution is still left. d. Currency is mysterious like God, which can’t be defined properly and correctly by the economists. e. The economists have described both centralisation of currency and inflation of currency as action of genocide. Therefore, government is having only two options left- it can end the process of collection by disciplining the persons having tendency to collect (centralizing) or it can help in imprinting of currency for the lower middle class. When economy of the lower middle class faces crunch of currency, simultaneously the economy of higher class reflects demerits of monetary inflation. For the higher class currency doesn’t pose any problem, they develop a tendency to spend lavishly for the purchase of anything. In such situation, if there is a separate Reserve Bank for the lower class, it can balance domestic economy by circulating extra currency. Hence, it is not possible to maintain monetary justice with one Reserve Bank between the two classes. f. If the higher class deviates from their economic duty and refuse to comply with the instruction of the government, violate sovereignty of the government, then it is the duty of the government not to exert pressure the lower middle class unilaterally to follow its instructions. The government should keep away itself from the higher class and the lower middle class if it can’t do the justice of equal distribution of collective property. It should leave the both classes in the ring of natural justice. The government should decontrol the police and the army for some period. Then and then only the higher class may come to know about as the their prosperity is the gift of the state or it is outcome of their talent.
3. The statements of the economists about gold standard-
(i) “Gold standard is the best means to spread the dreadful diseases of recession and surplus from one country to another.” ‘Prof Williams’
(ii) “Gold standard is like that boat which sails smoothly in quiet water but wrecks in tempest.” ‘George Home’
(iii) “Gold standard is the friend of good days” ‘Robertson’
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(iv) “Gold standard is a jealous deity who is pleased only when he is exclusively worshipped.” ‘Crowther’
(v) “The rule of gold standard is not meant for seriously maintaining the price standard rather it provided therein that every country will remain in the state of addiction that its price standard is stable.”
4. The statements of the economists about inflation and deflation of currency-
(i) “The definite unit of currency is exchanged from hands to hands frequently and this frequency of exchange is called the pace of inflation of currency” ‘Robertson’
(ii) “In the situation of unemployment prevailing at large scale, normally there is no fear of price rise by increasing the number of currency. In such situation the policy of expansion of currency my be employed.” ‘Keens’
(iii) “The inflation of currency is improper and deflation of currency is impractical, this is like a engine which blindly distributes money. It doesn’t have any regard for merit and demerit of a person.” ‘Keens’
(iv) “Inflation can be compared with a robber. Both of them snatch goods. Only difference between the two is that robber is visible whereas inflation of currency is invisible. A robber robs some body once whereas inflation of currency robs the entire nation. A robber can be persecuted but inflation of currency is statutory.” ‘Prof Vakil’
(v) “If the people have a choice for inflation and deflation most of them will probably prefer inflation of currency. As far as production and employment is concerned, inflation of currency is better that that of deflation of the same.” ‘Kurihara’
(vi) “The inflation of currency is unjust and deflation of the same is inadequate. But deflation of the currency carries more evil between the two.” ‘Keens’
(vii) “The situation of additional demand will not affect much the price if there is increase in production with the percentage increase in demand” ‘Keens’
(viii) “The amendments of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi regarding inflation and deflation of currency.
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The above definition of Prof Vakil and assessment made about inflation of currency may be proved as wrong if economic democracy is adopted through the proposal of Votership. See some examples-
First example:- William is having Rs.100, Sayeed having Rs. 75 and Gorvachov having Rs.40, Wangue having Rs. 5 and Ramprasad having Rs.10 and all of them are the voters are living in the same economy. Government, the regulating body of this economy issued currency notes of Rs.100 and distributed equally among all the five voters. Assess the impact of this step of government on all the voters-
Total purchasing power = 100 + 75 + 40 + 25 + 10 = Rs.250 The percentage of inflation of currency = 40 %
N A B C D E F William 100 120 +20 34.2857 85.7143 -14.2857 Sayeed 75 95 +20 27.1428 67.8572 -07.1428 Gorvachov 40 60 +20 17.1428 42.8572 +02.8572 Wangue 25 45 +20 12.8571 32.1429 +07.1429 Ram 10 30 +20 08.5714 21.4286 +11.4286
Hence, N means names, A means the amount prior to the step of inflation of currency, B means the amount of money after inflation of currency, C shows expected benefit to everyone, D is the portion remaining amount of money after inflation of currency, E is the amount remaining after subtracting D from B, F mentions about the profit – loss to everyone, which is derived after subtracting the amount E received by every individual after inflation of currency from the existing amount A to the every individual prior to the inflation of currency.
Conclusion- The effect of inflation of currency- (i) It doesn’t affect all equally. (ii) Its ill effect is proportionate to the collection of the collectors of currency. (iii) It is like getting donation for someone and it is like tax for the others. (iv) Its good or bad effect depends on the proportion of newlycirculated currency received by whom and by which percentage?
Second example:- The total production of milk is 20 litre in a household, the number of member in the family is 10 and distribution of milk for drinking among them is as follows:-
Clinton 8.00 litre Fung 0.75 litre Tomas 5.00 litre Tretosky 0.50 litre Ahamad 2.50 litre Mahmood 0.40 litre Lama 1.50 litre Dyna 0.25 litre Yang 1.00 litre Vishwanath 0.10 litre
Two more babies took birth in the family. Clinton used to intake 8 liters milk, he was asked to partake some milk to the newborn babies. But he didn’t agree for it. No single member of the
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family agreed to part with his or her share of milk. Therefore, the family manager mixed water in liters equal to the number of members i.e. 12 liters water which was 60 percent of the quantum of mild. The family member was of the view that at least 0.5 liters milk is essential for one child to survive. Now the total quantum of milk = 20+12=32 liters. The total number of members of the family =10+2=12. The family manager distributed the increased quantity 12 liters milk equally among all the members of the family. Now, assess the impact of water mixed with milk (inflation of currency) on these 12 members.
Name The quantity The quantity The impact Pure Genuine before of mixed of inflation milk impact inflation milk (after inflation) Profit/Loss N A B C D E F Clinton 8.00 9.00 +1 3.375 5.625 - 2.375 Tomas 5.00 6.00 +1 2.250 3.600 -1.400 Ahmad 2.50 3.50 +1 1.312 2.187 -0.312 Lama 1.50 2.50 +1 0.937 1.562 +0.062 Yang 1.00 2.00 +1 0.750 1.250 +0.250 Fung 0.75 1.75 +1 0.656 1.093 +0.343 Tratosky 0.50 1.50 +1 0.562 0.937 +0.437 Mahmood 0.40 1.40 +1 0.525 0.875 +0.475 Dyna 0.25 1.25 +1 0.468 0.781 +0.531 Vishwnath 0.10 1.10 +1 0.381 0.718 +0.618 M-baby 0.00 1.00 +1 0.375 0.625 +0.621 F-baby 0.00 1.00 +1 0.375 0.625 +0.621
(Here NABCDEF means the same as is given in the first example)
Here N is names of the members of the family, A is the quantity of milk, B is the quantity of milk after water is mixed. C is the increased quantity of milk after mixing water, D = Bx12/32 which is quantity of water N increased quantity of milk after mixing water. E= B-D i.e. the quantity of pure milk in increase quantity of milk after mixing water in it. F = E-A i.e. the difference in the quantity of pure milk before and after mixing water in it.
Conclusion- (i) Volume of currency is expanded in that quantity which is product of multiplication of population with the minimum purchasing power for subsistence. (ii) Expanded quantity is equally distributed among all, (iii) Discipline is maintained on welfare by way of providing facility, (iv) Unemployment prevails, (v) Production through machine is prevalent, (vi) Political democracy is in practice,
Then, (i) Rich class is benefited from inflation of currency, this conclusion of keens gets reversed with the said technique and inflation of currency is beneficial for the masses,
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(ii) The above technique doesn’t impose tax on everyone equally, rather there is judicious distribution of money. So, this technique changes the conclusion of Prof. J. C. N. Vakil. (iii) The problem of poverty-illiteracy-disease-population increase can be tackled with. (iv) Public participation may be increased in the economic decisions of the country. (v) Maximum economic gain can be achieved through minimum political instability. (vi) The allegation of artificial prosperity is not applicable to the inflation for the reasons as follow- Production has become machine based, machine based production will increase and labour based production will decrease with increase in demand. (vii) With increase in purchasing power of the unemployed persons, their mental work ability will become free from inertness and production will start increasing. (viii) The prosperity achieved through inflation will remain stable because of constant increase in production and demand. (ix) There will be no price rise on account of inflation of currency. (x) If there is the quench of full employment. Production will not increase with demand and as a result of this the state of full inflation will come.
Explanation- This is to be noted here that production has two means- First one is manual and the second one is mechanical. The statement of keens will come true only when the level of optimum utilisation of machines has been achieved. Cost inductive inflation is caused by two ways. Profit induced inflation – increase in the rate of interest, increase in dividends etc. which is beneficial to the capitalists and this is undemocratic inflation. Labour induced inflation-increase in the rates of wages is beneficial to the labourers and this is democratic inflation. Labour induced inflation is better than that of profit induced inflation. Votership induced inflation is better than the two. The reason is as follows:- (i) Due to competition prevailing among the labourers there is not increase in wages in all areas and institutions. Therefore, the burden of increase in the wages of labourer of one sector gets transferred on the shoulder of the labourers of the other institutions. Thus, labourer themselves becomes the very cause of exploitation for the labourer. The principal of equal distribution enshrined in Votership may safeguard this short coming. The labourers will not allow to commit rape on them. (ii) There is no guarantee of increase in gross domestic production from increase in wages of labourer but this guarantee comes from Votership. The first reason of this is that mental power of the people will get activated once they are free from the worriness of food and as a result of which new discoveries and inventions will come forth which will include may inventions to increase production. Second reason is this that there will not be decrease in production based on recession because of the availability of purchasing power.
5. The statement of the economists on public finance and their explanation
That the issue of Votership is neither the subject of economics nor the subject of politics rather it is the subject of public finance. Look at some of the definition of public finance-
(i) “Public finance is one of the subject which is located on the division line between economics and political science.”
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‘Dalton’
(ii) Explanation of Dalton by the principal petitioner, Bharat Gandhi-
Market economics honours those only who have money in their pockets. Its short- sightedness is that it doesn’t look into this fact as to wherefrom this money came to the person concern. Political science honours those who survived. Its shortcoming is this that it doesn’t look into this fact whether the person concerned is fit to survive or not. Public finance is supposed to make adjustment between the two. The arrangement should be made for them who have not money but who are useful for the society to leave with honour and the persons who have acquired money either through crime or through legal force should be transferred somewhere else, howsoever some curtailment in their honour and facilities may be made herewith.
(iii) “The state should openly use its exchequer policy to reduce economic disparity” ‘Prof. Wagnor, Edgeworth Pingoo’
(iv) “Finance is not only an arithmetic but it is a great policy. Without good finance good government is not possible and without good government good finance is not possible.” ‘Wilson’
(v) “An individual says as to he has to spend his certain fix amount, whereas the finance minister says as to he has to earn certain fix income” ‘West will’
(vii) The explanation made by the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi about West Will-
The model of the family economy of an individual is- “cut your coat according to your cloth,” whereas the model of the domestic economy of the government is “expand cloth according to your coat.” Even then it is true in that case only when government means the world government and an individual means the selfish individual from economic point of view. If a benevolent individual and a regional government is taken into account, the above model will not work out.
(viii) “An individual spends a part of his income for his personal satisfaction and second part for collective satisfaction. Hence the state can make a change in second part of personal income.”
(ix) The explanation of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
The state should also spend on two counts- personal and collective, like wise an individual spends. The proportion of these two counts must be decided. The personal account of the government is called collective account of an individual. Hence the amount spends by government on public construction and long term productive work is considered as expenditure made for the collective satisfaction of the individual. It would not be factually wrong if this expenditure is to be taken as expenditure for the personal satisfaction of the government for this is collective expenditure for the individuals. When an individual spends for collective satisfaction as well then government too should not withdraw its hands just after spending for personal satisfaction. Government should spend on collective satisfaction as well. The expenditure made by the government for collective satisfaction should be considered as the expenditure which increase
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personal satisfaction of the individuals collectively. In the meanwhile, it is also essential that all the voters may be benefited equally from the expenditure of the government. Hence the expenditures made as unemployment allowances, old age pension, Votership amount, Votership or voter’s dividend etc. can be taken as the expenditure made for the collective satisfaction of the government. The expenditures made on the resources like road, electricity, rail, post, transportation cannot be equally beneficial for every citizen. The car owner takes the benefit of road much more, the benefit of rail and air traffic is mostly taken by the prosperous one, therefore the expenditure made on these items can be called public but it can not be called as collective. In brief, if an individual gives something in the account of the state, it is essential for the state also to give something in the account of individual only then it will be proved that the state also spends something for its collective satisfaction. By not doing so the state becomes an weapon of economic injustice. The proposal of Votership provides an opportunity to the state to spend for its collective satisfaction.
(x) “Reducing inequality is useful by which good use of income can be thought of in view of the necessities of an individual and family for a certain period.” ‘Dalton’
(xi) “Full employment can exist only when an individual willing to work on the existing rate of wage should not remain without work, though 3 to 5 percent persons remain workless or do not like to work perpetually.” ‘Keens’
(xii) The explanation of principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
The shortcoming lies with the above concept of full employment is this that the existing rate of wage has been considered adequate and justified suo-moto. The poor working on the existing rate of wage are not in fact employed ones rather they are the victims of economic rape in case the government is not providing Votership to the public. The revenge against such rape gives birth to criminal activities. All such thing happens in unconscious mind of an individual. Hence the full employment can come only when government provides all its voters economic power like Votership by which they can resist rape against them. Even then the people willing to work on the exiting rate of wage are not remaining workless, that could be considered as one phase of the full employment.
(xiii) “The finance of redistribution gives more profit at low cost but this is more true in case of underdeveloping countries in comparison to those of the developed ones.” ‘Heller’
(xiv) The explanation of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
“The traditional economists advocate for the expenditure on the education, health, housing, community scheme, cottage industries and labour welfare of the poor by imposing progressive income tax, land tax, succession tax and capital tax for the redistribution”. In fact, redistribution is not possible with such move because the amount spent in the name of education for the poor went in the hand of the teacher and the education administrator, the amount spent on the health went in the hand of doctor and the amount spent on community scheme, cottage industries and labour
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welfare went in the hands of bureaucrats, small traders and brokers. Therefore, the wish to attain the objective of social welfare by the way of redistribution is proven to be a costly deal. For this desire money instead of reaching at another end comes back from the middle way. Hence to provide Votership is the most effective means of redistribution.
6. The statement of the economists about taxation and their explanation-
(i) “Though the theories of public expenditure have not get evolved like those of taxation, yet some clear and fundamental theories can be explained which can guide the members of Legislature and the mass till good theories are evolved.” ‘Wehuller’
(ii) The explanation of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
“Since taxation affects the rich class, so that class made financial contribution for the researches for evolution of scientific theories in their safety. Public expenditure affects the common men but they are financial incapable so they could not make financial assistant to the researches (the theory related to public expenditure) to be undertaken for their benefit. The even the scientific theories of governing system which provide justice to the mass have not been developed yet. Good theories of public expenditure could not have been developed yet for the reasons that theories like Votership have not been properly attended to.”
(iii) “Social welfare can be increased by increasing the production of commodities and services but if it is not possible then social welfare can be increased by removing inequality of money in society by distribution of national dividend. Enhancement in the income of the poor and grant from the state is essential for removing inequality of distribution of income.” ‘Pingoo’
(iv) “Inequality of income can be removed and improved by way of distribution through grant.” ‘Dalton’
(v) “The system of public expenditure is the best one which has potential to reduce inequality of income.” ‘Dalton’
(vi) “The public expenditure may be made on the same basis on which taxation is made i.e. on the basis of the capability to pay so that there is maximum increase in economic welfare.” ‘Dalton’
(vii) “The poor have greater tendencies to spend on consumption in comparison to the rich ones and for this reason only when expenditure will be made on the poor by taking money from the rich class, the quantum of money spend in the country will increase in the production and employment” ‘Keens’
(viii) “Economic disparity can be brought to an end by public expenditure only when rich class is taxed at the progressive rate and the money so consolidated is spent in the interest of the poor class”
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‘Prof JK Mehta’
(ix) The explanation of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
The views of the economists as made above from (iii to vi) support redistribution. Since Votership is an instrument of redistribution only, so this can be supported by the economists. For traditional reasons and for the reasons that all these economists were born in the age which was technically least developed, all of them are in favor of redistribution made through convenience, which proves meaningless from the explanation of the above point (h) and Votership emerged as the best means of distribution.
(x) “Taxation lessens the possibilities of working as it reduces working efficiency as well” ‘Dalton’
(xi) The explanation of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
“Taxation decrease work efficiency is true at the most for indirect taxation only. The above statement of Dalton created a myth that taxation decrease work efficiency of everybody whereas Dalton was not of this view. Had he been so, he could not have advocated for progressive taxation. The work efficiency can go down at the most for the percentage of those people who are taxed. If income tax is imposed on 5 percent people, then how far it is correct to say that it will decrease the work efficiency of everyone (rest of the 95 percent population). This myth is in fact publicised mainly by those who favor economic disparity and who are willing to transfer their labour on the shoulders of the others.”
(xii) “It is often said that taxation specially on the rich class increases unemployment among them. But the person supporting this view point appears to believe as if the money collected through taxation is either deposited in stock or is thrown away in the ocean.” ‘Dalton’
(xiii) “As a theory of political science equality means that the portion of every individual in government expenditure is determine in this way that he or she may not feel less or more in conveniences for his or her contribution in comparison to the contribution made by the others. ‘J S Mill’
(xiv) “Distribution of the direct burden of money of taxation should be made in this way that direct actual burden on every taxpayer is equal” ‘Dalton’
(xv) Explanation of main petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
It has been propagated by deriving wrong meaning of the statements of the above scholars like Mill and Dalton while explaining justice in taxation that- (i) Everyone should pay equal tax. (ii) Tax should be paid in proportion to the income. (iii) The tax should be paid in proportion to the services provided for the individuals by the state.
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(iv) The quantum of tax should be as such which doesn’t reduce prosperity. Above conclusions create this illusion that the person paying more tax- (i) Is well wisher of the society. (ii) Is the well wisher of the state. (iii) Is more benevolent. (iv) Sacrifices more. (v) Is more industrious. (vi) Is more productive.
On the one hand if such person is capable of changing car and travelling by air and can leave behind him billions of rupees for his sons in legacy, the pain felt by him while paying tax was almost negligible. On the other hand a poor citizen doesn’t find any credit and honour directly from taxation and even then he sleeps in hunger and leads a hellish life facing acute cold and hot, labours hard throughout his life and yet doesn’t leave any penny for his son. The taxation pain index faced by him in much greater that that of the fellow paying tax in billions. The state doesn’t recognise pain and anguish of the poor and doesn’t show any obligation for them. It feels very much obliged for the direct tax paid by the rich and it does something which is injustice for poor. The economist have been calculating the income of the tax payers, the benefit to the tax payers from the state, the extent of direct sacrifice made by the tax payers and they have always neglected the tax pain index against the taxation borne by the poor mass. For this reason only the tradition of taxation has been prevailing till now has been committing rape on the rest of the masses by the capitalists.
(xvi) Direct tax and indirect tax are complimentary to each other and remove evil on the part of the other. ‘Prof. D Marce’
(xvii) “Direct tax and indirect tax are like two pretty sisters. Both are quite fortunate and the names of their parent are necessity and invention. There is difference between the two as is usually found between the two sisters” ‘Great Scottman’
(xviii) The explanation of the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi-
And that difference is this their husbands are two distinct fellows. Indirect tax has been married and the direct tax is still maid. Her father doesn’t allow his unmarried daughter to go out of home to save his imaginary prestige. The direct tax prisoned in her home is not in a position to demonstrate her talent. Since the husband in form of the world government doesn’t exist who could have married that maid whereas the other daughter (indirect tax) has been married with the regional government. Her husband has got that nature that he feels much more attached with his in law’s home forgetting about his own paternal house. Both sisters are serving the interest of their parental house and as a result of this the condition of their in law’s house is misrable.
(xix) “The system of direct tax and indirect tax by removing defects mutually creates equilibrium in taxation system.”
‘Dalton’
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7. Some useful figures
SYMBOL
PCP = Per capita Production UNDP = United Nations Development Program GDP = Gross Domestic Production PVP = Per Voter Production PCI = Per Capita Income GDI = Gross Domestic Income PVI = Per Voter Income
BASIC STATISTICS
Population(2004) - 108.71 Cr., (UNDP Report-2006) Numbers of Voters - 68 Cr.,
Per capita Production (Annual) - 3139 Dollars, (UNDP Report-2006)
Per capita income (Annual ) - Rs. 23, 222.00 (Central St. Org. RAJYA Sabha qn. on May 31, 2006)
DERIVED STATISTICS
Indian GDI Annual (In Rs.) =Rs. 23, 222.00 x108.71 Cr. Indians =Rs. 25,24,463.60 Cr.
Indian PVI Annual (In Rs.) =Rs 25,24,463.60 /68 Cr.Voters Voters = Rs. 37, 124.00
Indian PVI Monthly (In Rs.) = Rs. 37, 124.46/12=3, 093.70
Per capita income in India (monthly) - Rs. 1, 935.00 (Rs. 23, 222.00/12)
Indian GDP Annual = Dollar 3139.00 x108.71 Cr. Indians =34, 12, 406.9 Cr. Dollar
Indian GDP Annual (In Rs.) =34,12,406.9 Cr. Dollar@45 =15,35,58,310.00 Cr. Rs.
Indian PVP Annual =15,35,58,310.00 Cr. Rs. / 68 Cr. Indians Voters =22, 58, 210.4 Rs.
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Indian PVP Monthly(In Rs.) =22, 58, 210.4 Rs. /12 Months =1, 88, 184.2 Rs.
1/2nd Part of Indian PVP Monthly(In Rs.) = Rs.1, 88, 184.2 Rs./2=94, 092.00 1/4th Part of Indian PVP Monthly(In Rs.) =1, 88, 184.2 Rs./4=47,046.00 Rs. 1/8th Part of Indian PVP Monthly(In Rs.) =1, 88, 184.2 Rs./8=23,523.00 Rs. 1/10th Part of Indian PVP Monthly(In Rs.) =1, 88, 184.2 Rs./10=18,818.40 R
1/2nd Part of Indian PVI monthly (In Rs.) =Rs. 3, 093.70/2= Rs. 1546.85
The essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 81, 600 crore Rs. 100 to each voter and Super-national Interim government (Rs. 100 * 68Crs. *12)
The essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 16, 32 00 crore Rs. 200 to each voter and Super-national Interim government. Rs. 200 * 68Crs. *12)
The essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 4, 08 000 crore Rs. 500 to each voter and Super-national Interim government (Rs. 500 * 68Crs. *12)
The essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 8, 16, 000 crore Rs. 1000 to each voter and Super-national Interim government (Rs. 1000 * 68Crs. *12)
The essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 12, 61, 536 crore Rs. 1546 to each voter and Super-national Interim government (Rs. 1546 * 68Crs. *12)
The essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 14,28,000 crore Rs. 1750 to each voter and Super-national Interim government.(as traditionally demanded) (Rs. 1750 * 68Crs. *12)
Essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 15, 35, 5828 10 percent of his average share in GDP to a voter and Super-national government. (22, 58, 210.4 Rs./10 * 68 Cr.)
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Essential amount (annual) to give - Rs. 7, 67, 79, 140 crore 50 percent of his average share in GDP to a voter and Super-national government. (22, 58, 210.4 Rs./2 * 68 Cr.)
Potential income (revenue annual) - Rs. ……………………..crore After implementing the system of property Tax in India as suggested by petitioners
Potential income by way of imposing - `Rs. ……………………..crore Tax on multinational companies as their Economic duty.
Potential income by way of imposing Rs. ……………………..crore Income Tax on developed voters of developed contries.
Potential income by way of imposing Rs. ……………………..crore Liabilities on developed contries under Mellanium Devlopement Goal(MDG).
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THE HISTORY OF VOTERSHIP
J. S. MILL ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 135 BHARAT GANDHI : THE ORIGINATOR OF CONCEPT AND INVENTOR OF THE VOTERSHIP 136 FEDERATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM ………………………………………………………………. 153 PARLIAMENTARIANS OF INDIA FOR VOTERSHIP ...... 156 OTHER ASSOCIATIONS ………………………………………………………………………………………. 162 VTERSHIP IN OTHER COUNTRIES OTHER THAN INDIA ………………………………………… 163
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JOHN STUART MILL
Prof J. S. Mill is an emminent political philosopher of the world. His book principles of political economy is a very famous book of the world. Every students of political science is famillier wth Mill. The readers of Bhrat gandh, the petitioner informed him that concept of votership may easily link with political ideology of J, S. Mill. He was against the extremist thoughts of capitalism and as well as communism. That is why he created a new path other than his friend Karl Marx.
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BHARAT GANDHI
INTRODUCTION
Brief introduction of Bharat Gandhi ……………………………………………….. 137 ‘NAFER’ for reform in education system …………………………………………. 140 Origin of the concept of Votership …………………………………………………. 142 14 days risky fasting ………………………………………………………………………. 143 Contribution in spiritual knowledge ………………………………………………… 147 The formulation of necessary amendments in the Constitution of India 147 83 Days in Jail for the cause of labourers …………………………………………. 148 The formation of Federation for Economic Freedom for political reforms 151 Role as principal petitioner in the petition of for Votreship………………. 152 Web ages on Bharat Gandhi ……………………………………………………………… 152
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(a) Brief introduction of Bharat Gandhi
The brief introduction of principal petitioner is as follows: Birth: On 12 Feb., 1969 at Mumbai, Originally from Jaunpur (U. P.). Education: Primary education held from govt. school of a village of Jaunpur district, brilliant from very beginning. He completed his higher education at the University of Allahabad. He Qualified competitive examination for administrative services and boycotted educational degrees and certificates. He left higher education in the second year of Law. At the same time petitioner passed preliminary examination of U. P. Public Services Commission and was invited in the further process of selection but also boycotted the same. Activities: He founded a voluntary organization named national foundation for education and research in 1994. He worked much in Meerut for the social cause and wrote many books. Prepared and presented to the president of India a report on necessary reforms in Indian constitution parallel to the constitution review commission formed by the Indian government. He passed three months of life into Meerut jail under National Security Act in 2001 on the issue of illegal expulsion of workers of a textile mill. He advocated his case himself in court and came out of jail after 83 days without expensing a single paisa. Currant Activities: Central Convener of Federation for Economic Freedom and In charge of Parliament Affairs Cell of Federation and making efforts to execute thoughts presented in this petition and book “Janopanishad” (Note: As published in the book named “Janopanishad” written by the principal petitioner Bharat Gandhi and Published by Vishwavidyalay Prakashan, Varanasi) (ii) That during the last phase of his educational career a feeling was developed a feeling of aversion towards the inheridiatory system which provides a root of legal reservation to richness and poverty. The petitioner found a contradiction in the existing economy and governance in which through the law of succession a child of rich becomes rich and a child of poor becomes poor irrespective of merit and competence one possess. That is a contradiction and irony in the matter is that the posts of D.M., C.M., P.M. have not been made inheridiatory whereas the basic inspiration for reaching to these posts is money making. The means i.e. the money power is inheridiatory whereas democracy is being experimental only on administration and governance. This ill arrangement is the root cause of the problems like corruption, greed for money, crime, consumerism, alcohalism, depression etc which are growing in the society. The principal petitioner reached the conclusion as to when money is inheridia which can be given to one’s posterity only then why any one will work with honesty and integrity. If this thinking is correct and if it has social sanction that everyone works for his children and it is quite certain that the people involved in politics and administration also are working for their children, since posts are not inheridia therefore they work for money but pose as if they were carrying out their responsibilities. The difference between saying and deed and dominance of falsehood has direct relation with the law of succession. The principal petitioner had already realized this fact when he was pursuing his graduation degree from Allahabad University yet he was not disillusioned with making of his career in civil services. (iii) That, principal petitioner was willing to become a officer in civil sevices. He passed the priliminary exams of U.P. civil services just after passing his graduation, but two incidents detached him from this career. First one was related to the reservation movements. The students were holding agitation both in support and against reservation in the administrative services during 1991-92. The petitioner didn’t participate in any of the two. He was not able to swallow this fact that the person scoring 50 percent in any exam may be declared successful and the person obtaining 80 percent in the same exam is treated unsuccessful. Therefore, the petitioner though
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born in a backward family abstained himself from the movement in support of reservation. So, he lost friendship with his friends who were reservation supporters. The principal petitioner lived in a rented room in the house of a retired high count judge, which was located at civil lines in Allahabad. In the same room, two other partners were also living with him. Those two belonged to the forward caste. Once the principal petitioner had gone to his home town Jaunpur for three days. When he came back, he saw that his room partners had gone leaving the room and his belongings were lying at sixes and seven. Later on, he came to know that those two forward caste friends didn’t want to live with a backward friend. The lustful thinking on the part of the petitioner had already made his aloof from his backward friends and now even the backward caste friends kept themselves away from him. (iv) That incident agitated the mind of the principal petitioner towards the ill educational system. He didn’t feel anger at all at his forward caste friends rather he felt pity on them. He felt pity for this fact that the agitation about reservation had separated two friends for ever. That incident had wounded his heart, he was even disillusioned with the education system, yet he have had a fascination for his career. Another incident in this direction happened when the principal petitioner had gone to the residences of his friends who couldn’t become successful in their last attempt of UPSE civil service exam. The atmosphere of their houses were as such as if some one had died in their families. Such deplorable scene in the houses of his friends had reminded him that death doesn’t come once in life rather it knocks several times. There was a unique similarity between the tears erupted out in the eyes of near and dears over one’s death and the tears rolled down from the eyes of the aspiring candidate after watching the result in the news paper. He was forced first time to think about the death. He drew the conclusion that in fact when a man doesn’t succeed to become an I.A.S. or doctor, engineer etc, and when the result of the last attempt comes in, the person faces almost death. This is the death of the soul of an IAS. His body remains but his soul dies. The petitioner saw the shadow of same death in the eyes of some of his friends, their parents, brothers and sister. He was shocked to see that scene. He began to feel as to this was a death or murder. He realized that he would replace the killer when he would find a place in the merit list of IAS. He felt that his family would rejoice in when he would qualify for IAS but due to him a candidate will come out of the merit list and condolence like scene will be observed in that fellow’s house. These incidents had broken the thread in one blow, which was getting thinner day by day, the thread of ambition to become an IAS officer. Now the petitioner decided to take on such job to live a life, which may not debar the others. The Satyagrah of not living at the cost of others brought the petitioner at the door of the Committee on Petition of Parliament going through several experiences during the period of twelve years from 1993 to 2003. (v) The petitioner ending his education in 1992 established an organization namely National Foundation of Educations and Research with the help of academicians of Allahabad. NAFER is abbreviated form of the same. (vi) That the petitioner couldn’t participate in pro-reservation agitation because he didn’t find it appropriate that the student securing higher mark was to be declared unsuccessful and the student securing lower mark was to be declared successful. In the meanwhile he couldn’t participate in anti reservation stir because that agitation was in favor of inheriting economic rights side by side. The petitioners conscience was not ready to take the person born in higher caste in high esteem and the one born in lower caste in low esteem. The petitioner couldn’t favor any of the two agitations because both were for honoring the birth instead of deed. Reservation agitation related to social status and the laws of succession related to economic status forced him to undergo self- retrospection and self-identification. He felt that though he was born in a backward Yadav family but consciously he didn’t favor this class. Therefore, he didn’t participate in pro-reservation
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agitation, he is supporter of social justice, so he could not go with them who were against reservation as because they were not holding any agitation against succession. The petitioner realized that he was not the supporter of either of the groups and he had no control over taking birth in a particular. Whenever he introduced himself with reference to his caste which consequently came into the category of backward class, he felt as if he were falsifying the thing. Since, he was not born in a forward caste family so introducing himself with that reference could have been a while. In such dilemma an idea flourished in his mind that he was a son of the nation not just a son of a caste. Therefore, the word signifying the nation should be associated with his name instead of the word signifying his caste. Later on, he came to perceive one more benefit as by ending the atrocious laws providing strength to evil custom of poor and rich based on the birth, the petitioner would not just remain the son of a poor, rather he would become the son of nation. With this he may get his share in economic legacy of the nation as a son of the nation, which may become the source of his livelihood. With this source he can fulfil his desire to lead his life without snatching others employment. But a new problem did arise when he wanted to assume his surname as Gandhi as the people may take his one among the caste of Teli (oilman) of Gujrat. He solved this problem by associating the surname Gandhi with two spellings. For his personal convenience and sincerity the surname Gandhi with CHANDRABINDU in Hindi language for self, he left it for the Teli caste of Gujrat and used surname Gandhi with SURYABINDU in Hindi language. He made it public in January 1994 when he completed 25 years of age. The news about the petitioner with this amended name was published first time on 13th January 1994 in all national dailies like the time of India etc. Prior to this all news papers used to publish his statements with his old name. The petitioner got recorded the name of the father of nation for his father’s name on 20th January 2001 in Jail where he was lodged for long time after he was arrested by the district magistrate terming him a danger for national security. (vii) That the petitioner by his relentless labour from 1992 to 1996 drew some conclusions for reforms in education system through an organization namely ‘NAFER’ but these conclusion couldn’t be implemented without approval of Parliament. When talk was held with some workers of the political parties, they saw possibility of note i.e. money and vote for the support of their respective parties in the proposal of ‘NAFER’ for educational reform. The petitioner realized very soon that it would not be possible to bring improvement in education system till the supporters of this system reach Parliament. After this realization the petitioner was forced to think about governance and economy after holding the task of education reform in abeyance. (viii) The above experiences made him realized that he should start writing after confining himself a solitary place and he should formulate a draft of reform in economy and governance as well on the line he had prepared a draft for reform in education system. The petitioner while working for reform in education understood this fact the education system of the government works as a means and ultimate aim is economy and governance. After this conclusion the petitioner decided to shift to Meerut after leaving Allahabad. He confining himself to a solitary place wrote many a books on alternative economy and governance relentlessly between 1995 and 1998. A public organization namely ARTHIK AJADI ANDOLAN PARISANGH was formed suo moto after publication of some of his books. That organization after five years of its foundation is involved in getting his petition presented in Lok Sabha. Refer the concern portion of this petition for knowing the names of the books with this modification that the petitioner while living in jail wrote one more book namely ‘JANOPANISHAD’ and he went back to live at Meerut after leaving Bhajanpura, Delhi where he had started living after his release from jail. (ix) That the principal petitioner is original resident of village-Anapur P.O. Machhlishahar. P.S. Sikrara, Distt. Jaunpur, U.P. but he doesn’t reside on this address since 1986.
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Most of the time he is residing in a rented room at Meerut. The rent is borne, by the elder and the younger brother of the petitioner. The petitioner indulges himself in writing during leisure. He by organising public meetings throughout country popularises the system of economic independence. He travels to different places for this purpose when expense on his tours is borne on by someone. The personal expense e of Rs. 1000 per month is borne by his blood relatives and Rs. 500 is borne by Dr. Dr Atul Krishna , who runs many educational institutions in Merrut. The petitioner limits his expense to Rs. 1500 per month and he spends a part of it on social work also. He doesn’t have any account in any bank as he doesn’t have any additional amount. Sudha Pandey, Ram Avtar Bansal, Avadesh Singh and Shyam Mohan Gupta unit of ARTHIK AZADI PRISANGH have great love and affection for him and they like to feed him who is 36 year old bachelor living all alone. Most of the time he takes meal in their houses. Well known sport industrialist of Merrut and veteran worker of Sarvodaya, Krishna Kumar Khanna provides space free of cost in the office of his factory to the petitioner for the public relation work. During his stay in Delhi the retired Air Force officer Sunil Kumar Bhatnagar provides the fooding and lodging facility free of cost. Sunil Anand who is younger brother of well known Supreme Court Advocate R.K. Anand provides him car facility to meet with the members of Parliament. With the economic assistance made by these people, the petitioner undertakes social work and he is still surviving with his resolution.
(b) ‘NAFER’ for reform in education system
(i) That in 1992 when the principal petitioner after passing out the first year of law degree exam reached in the second year, the above incidents put a question mark on the justification of ensuring school education because now the aim and priorities of the life of the petitioner were changed. He visualized that the school examination was nothing but simply wastage of time instead of treading towards new priorities. Therefore, first of all the petitioner formed an organization namely “National Foundation of Education and Research” with a view to reform education and got the same registered. Its abbreviated form is ‘NAFER’. The leading persons associated with education, law and politics of Allahabad town joined that organization. (ii) That NAFER suggested a new path between privatization and nationalization of education. The proposal of this system which is popular as ‘NAFER’ model of educational system’ in the media of Allahabad. Presented alternative of finance circulation system, of educational values, together with academic structure in education system. In this proposal of educational reform bridging the gap between academic degree and syllabus of the competitive examinations was described as essential because the students have to waste many valuable years as they are trapped between the two. In the university level examination there must be local politics department, provincial politics department, national politics department, world politics department. The main thinking behind this is the curiosity to understand must get awaken while working instead of instilling boring theories in the minds of the students. The NAFER model education expounded with the name of meeting public expectation described the publicity of new social and global values essential by co-ordinating the same in the local values. The basic reason of this is that the scope of the livelihood of the people has become global after globalization of market but if the people adopt the values of love for the global economy, the danger of uprooting the local culture is created and if they want to adopt the old definition of nationalism then this very definition becomes as an obstraction before the love for global economy. The NAFER model suggested the solution to this problem in this way that in new circumstances the power structure of the state should also get changed so that the world level state may nourish global values and local state may nourish local values. NAFER described the existence of middle path between these two poles. NAFER model
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pointed out it also that the value of economic disparity get proved with time as superstition and organic intoxication because now unmanned production system has come into existence. Now the teaching and learning of the values of economic disparity has become such superstition which defends poverty whereas this disparity is not co-operating now in development. NAFER model pointed out that it is essential to make the values of equality as the part of syllabus because opportunities of men to undertake traditional work have come to an end in this era of abundant production being made by machines. NAFER reached this conclusion that in the present era of machine based production the justification to keep reserve force of slaves by teaching them the value of economic disparity and making them hungry has come to an end. (iii) The leading newspaper such as the Times of India. The Pioneer, the leader, theAmrit Prabhat, the Newshead, the Dainik Jagran, the Amar Ujala, the Rashtriya Sahara, the Aaj, the Swatantra Bharat had published this research of NAFER in the field of education as main News items in four to five columns at least in the 35 issues during the period of about two and half years in 1994,95,96. The Allahabad Radio Station made broadcast regarding the activities of NAFER in many schedules of its weekly program, “PARIKARMA’. Had the education department of the government and Parliament extended their support to the same, the picture of India could have been somewhat different in the world scenario. This experience made the petitioner realized that the media doesn’t have any consequential effect on the government nor on the society. He realized this fact as well that the government department cann’t take any initiative at their own as part of their duty, they tend to do something only at the behest of getting some additional amount in addition to their pay and perks. Due to such experience, the petitioner became reluctant in giving information to the media about his activities after 1995. (iv) That the NAFER gave its opinion on the issue of educational management that the presence of schools in both sectors government and private is essential for the competition in teaching technique. These are existing. But there must be education boards as well in the private sector because there must be mutual competition between the two sectors about the teaching job but there is no competition between them about the syllabus and examination system. The schools must be given this right to get affiliation either of the Boards government or private sectors. The schools are not at their freedom to get affiliation from the Board which emphasis on quality. They are not at their liberty to adopt any such board. This situation creates many problems. This is not possible to create uniform education system all over the country because the value of economic disparity has been adopted herein. NAFER reached this conclusion that uniform education system cann’t be maintained till economic disparity prevails. If any effort in this reaction is made, it wouldn’t yield any result rather contrary to this one more government platform for corruption will come into being. (v) That while working for making reform in education through ‘NAFER’ the issue of qualitative rise of education and its quantative expansion came before the petitioner coming to a stage it became essential to decide as to which work should be given preference, he should work for the qualitative progress of education. The population found it also that these institutions are involved in the service of the rich families of the minority only. The majority of the society cann’t reach to this. After this experience the petitioner decided that he would work for educating the rest of the society. (vi) When the petitioner adopted the path of quantitative expansion of education, he observed that majority of the poor families don’t provide opportunity to their children to receive education in want of money. He found it impossible to send everybody to the schools without ensuring the regular source of income to the families. This circumstance forced the petitioner to search regular source of income to the families. From here onwards the petitioner tended to look at
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the economy and the governing system that controls it instead of education system. This dilemma was also one of the reasons for searching votership. The petitioner have reached this conclusion that creating awareness among the public towards education will not give entry of education in the poor families. This thinking which is popular among majority of the people is a myth. In fact, with ensuring regular source of income to every family and returning back the share out of the gross domestic hours of leisure will give rise education in poor families too and consequently population will control automatically. The petitioner has reached this conclusion that first money comes in the family follows the education. Sending text books and teachers in the poor families is meaningless, sending money is fruitful. With education money will come or with money education will come in the family appeared to the petitioner like the arguments of first hen came or egg. The petitioner favors the theory of money first and he is moving towards that direction. (vii) That refer to the chapter-11.7 of this petition to get acquainted with the media reports of the activities of NAFER.
(c) Origin of the concept of Votership
That it is obvious from concern part that the principal petitioner (hereinafter the petitioner) is guided by this will that he may lead an honourable life with utilizing his rights and also without snatching the employment of anybody and therefore for this he had to pass through very difficult situation in his life which was painful like labour pain but proved fruitful. Some of the glimpses of his hardships he had passed through are given here:-
(i) The petitioner qualified the UP Civil Service(Preliminary) Exam in 1992 in his first attempt. In spite this, he left the idea to join provincial or Indian Civil Service because he took this opportunity as one which may render another fellow jobless in this era of acute unemployment. The reason was this that his joining to any post of civil service would have debarred some equally competent fellow from getting that post. It would have been encroachment of other rights perpetrated by the petitioner. It was possible that the person so debarred could have been remained unemployed forever. It was possible that he or she could have been involved in any criminal activity as per his or her trait to earn livelihood or could have committed suicide for the fear of leading undignified life. (ii) The petitioner was of the view that there was rat race for higher posts only in the society so he decided to undertake some work at lower level for leading his life. He went to search a job of Peon in school, worker in factories or any work in the News paper office but saw there that the people were hankering after those low paid jobs and they were seeking jobs as if they were begging on roads, when the petitioner saw dried face and lips of the job seekers, he left the idea of working even against the low paid jobs in government or private sector. He clearly visualized that if he accepted even any low paid post, he would definitely debar another citizen from getting that job in his effort to earn his livelihood. (iii) In the meanwhile, the petitioner through discussions with some people and reading some of the analysis made in the Newspapers came to know this aspect that the people don’t get work because they want white collar job only otherwise there is no dearth of work in the world. This concept inspired the petitioner to sell his labour in the labour market of the unorganized sector after leaving the lust for the posts. He was under the impression that there might not be any competition for manual work. So he had been standing in queue of the labourers every morning for four months April to July, 1997 in various labour markets of Merrut city such as L.Block Shastri Nagar Labour market, Shagasha Labour Market, Jail Chungi labour market, Begampul labour market
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and Bagpath Adda labour market to sell his labour work. But he got acquainted with the labourers. When he did’nt get work, he began to think that perhaps dirty clothes and grown beard are necessary to look like labourers, so he adopted that trick also. Yet he did’nt get any work. He began to think as to why he alone does’nt get work whereas everyone gets work as they go somewhere around 10 to 11 A.M. Replying to his question the labourers told him that this was not correct that everyone got work. After 10 to 11 AM most of them go their homes when they do not work. Then the petitioner recalled as to how a scooter-rider used to come and halt near the gathering of labourers and the labourers began to solicit him for giving work like beggars. That person used to make a deal with them. He asked them as to how less wages they would like to take the petitioner could’nt succeed to reach him. Just listening to what was going between him and the labourers. The laborer who appeared somewhat strong and agreed to take less wage was to be normally preferred by him. He thus used to direct the selected one to reach destination point. The petitioner recalled his memory and found that it was correct that the people who needed labourers normally used to visit that place around 7 to 10 AM. After 10 A.M. the crowd of labourers was also used to get dispersed. I after knowing the fact the petitioner’s last hope to get work got shattered. He realized that there was stiff competition for becoming collector and the same competition was for getting the work of labourers also wherein they are merely paid 60 rupees per day. The petitioner drew this conclusion that there would be two situations if he gets work in a private company or in unorganized labour market. Firstly a labourer would be deprived of getting work. Secondly the rate of wage could have fallen down from Rs. 60 to Rs. 50. This result printed out that if he works as a labourer, he has to break that condition to work with his resolution. It is remarkable that he had resolved that he would use his rights without encroaching the rights of other and lead an honourable life. (iv) From 1992 to 1998, the petitioner remained in search for 6 years as to how he might be living with his resolution. Through his retrospection the petitioner realized that he was in position to work and even he was working but his work was not being valued economically and paid. Therefore, he was forced to spend just Rs. 1000/- per month whereas he was getting Rs. 4000/- per month from his family when he was residing in Allahabad. He had lost right to demand money from the family in which he was born as he was not finding himself in the position to pay back the family. Taking pity on miserable condition an industrialist of Merrut began to give him Rs. 500 per month from April, 1999. He too stopped giving that amount from June, 2004 as protest against his campaign for Votership thus the petitioner was again in economic crises. (v) After 1994, the petitioner observed that till 2000 many of the firms/companies got closed down. In one such case the petitioner had to raise voice along with the other mill workers in a mill against the administrative atrocities. The administration took this protest otherwise and send him along with other 29 labourers to Jail by slapping false cases against them. The petitioner had to spend three months (83 days) in Meerut Jail for safeguarding the interest of labourers. After his release from the Jail he filed a suit of defamation in Allahabad High Court and prayed for suitable compensation. That suit is still pending in high court. The above incidents showed to the petitioner that the Industry with small investment cannot withstand before the wave of World Trade Organisation. The petitioner was not in a position to start a business by making big investment as his sanguine father did not have that much property to invest on to take loan from Bank. This situation had ensured this much that the petitioner cannot make the small or medium business as his source of income. (vi) The petitioner was 23 year old in 1992. In this year he resolved not to exercise his rights by encroaching the rights of others specially in terms of remunarative jobs. This year the Public Service Commission, Allahabad had sent him a call letter for next process after he had
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qualified in the Civil Service(Preliminary) Examination. In the meanwhile, he had to stop the process to his marriage for defending his resolution whereas about all the preparations of marriage were completed. The petitioner had known this fact that the civil service could not become his source of income. New source of income was not apparent. His father did not have that much property to feed another couple. During five years from 1992 to 1997 he experienced that he could not generate source of income while working with low salary in any government or private organization. By that time he reached the age of 28. During this period he felt that in most of the cases the economic consideration of the groom is preferred to his mental physical ability. In Indian society whenever any father of a daughter goes out in search of a groom for his daughter, he is having his own scale of his caste and economic criteria. He likes to select less able groom of his caste and he rejects comparatively more qualified and deserving candidate of another caste. In his own caste he prefers a prosperous groom to that of poor but qualified groom. During the process of searching the groom, the father of the bride has his eyes on the property and income of the groom. Due to this greed on the part of the bride’s father the groom side starts behaving as if they were standing in an auction. The bride side pays amount like that of auction with a view to make the bride entitled to the property of the groom. That amount has been publicized as an evil of dowry. The petitioner had seen one such incident of marriage that undertook at Merrut in which a bride’s father rejected a doctor groom of the other side and handed over the hands of his daughter to a relatively prosperous groom of his own caste, that groom happened to be a primary teacher. The petitioner looking this scene of economic reservation drew this conclusion that he would have to be deprived from marriage however able and philanthropist he might be. He also realized this fact that the bride having her own source of income also does’nt prefer a groom with no source of income. The petitioner had seen this fact also the daughter of a rich family rejected the groom on this ground that he was not the son of a rich man nor did he had income in lakh of rupee. Incurable contradictions are existing before the petitioner for long. If he undertakes a job to generate a source of income, he will have to undo his resolution. If he proposes to a girl of a prosperous family and the girl having her own source of income, she may reject the proposal the petitioner observed that both Parliament and society have already accepted the money as the best scale to judge one’s ability, whereas neither the constitution nor the society considers this fact as to whether the money is the outcome of one’s talent and labour or of corruption and crime. The petitioner has now reached this conclusion that -
Firstly-not only the petitioner but many such persons are to be remained unmarried in view of restricting opportunities of employment and growing(or steady) population if only the income of either of the spouse is to be taken as valid and the ceiling Act for unlimited succession is made and the children born in poor families are given ownership to the income of some succession. Secondly, if the petitioner happens to get his share of rent(i.e votership) in the property of national economic succession, he may make the same as his source of income without doing away with his resolution and thus he may give matrimonial advertisement for himself on the basis of that income. (vii) This is the intention of the petitioner that he will not take direct payment from the person for whom he works as doing so he may defend his resolution. He wants to take the pleasure one gets after working as his direct payment. He is willing to spend for his needs from share of his rent in the property of national legacy. He wants to make the financial source produced from the work undertaken by the previous generation the basis for his livelihood and he is willing to make the financial source to be produced from his work as the source of livelihood for the next
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generation. If he works in any institution or works independently without taking any direct payment, then the employer will not feel any economic pressure due to him. Therefore, the employer will not retrench any worker and nor will hold back its feet from giving advertisements to fill in the vacancies. In this way, the petitioner will get amount required for just living and due to him no other candidate will be debarred from getting job. Thus he will get work and nonviolent means of income.
(viii) Some people who come in contact with the petitioner in 1994 apprised him of the ill- effects of the World Trade Organization (earlier as GATT) and they had expressed their view that if Govt. of India signs that Dankel Proposal, the industries of India would have to compete against the other countries of the world. The Indian industry will make indiscriminate use of machines to withstand in the competition. As a result of that, small and medium scale industries would be closed down on account of poor investment capability and the workers would be retrenched indiscriminately. Leaving his academic career the petitioner was engaged in the mission of searching out the problems of education system and their solution, therefore he was not in a position to involve in any kind of mission against the World Trade Organization. Due to this he showed his inability to extend his cooperation to them who were seeking his co-operation in running agitation with the indigenous means. (ix) The petitioner was depressed when he was unable to find any measure to live with his resolution after passing through that experience. In such mental condition he began to think as to why he should not make end to his life, if he has to live at the cost of other’s life. He remained in such mental state continuously for two years from 1996 to 1997 and he was in such state even in some parts of 1998. (x) In such mental state petitioner’s attention was gone towards the incidents of suicides. He was given to understand that the person has to undergo jail for his attempt to commit suicide. The petitioner realized that the governing system and economy of the country is not allowing the people to live and if they make an attempt to kill themselves, the law checks them from doing so.
(d) 14 days risky fasting -
(i) while petitioner was in such mental state when an incident took place at Kheri- Manihar Village under Mawana Tehsil of Merrut district in UP in which 5 members of a family made an attempt to commit suicide due to economic crises the family was facing 4 of them died while a small child of 8 year was survived in hospital. That incident was published on the front page of the News Papers and the petitioner got agitated over that news. He could not take his breakfast when he went through that News in the Newspaper on 1st July, 1998 He even did not take lunch. He refused to take dinner also. Next day also he did not take his meal. Third day also passed and he did not intake anything on fourth day hunger was giving pain to him but he did not find anyway to prevent such incident whereas he was taking this as inevitable outcome of the ill systems as the governance and economy of the world was moving in such direction. The petitioner was thinking about the fate of survived 8 year old baby, as to what would be the world of baby, as to what would be the worldly relation of her, who was there to look after the children? Her father? He is dead. Her mother? She is also dead. Her brother? He is also dead. Her sister? She is also dead. Her neighbor? Had they been sympathetic, the family could not have eaten poison. The government? The
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Government will put a condition- Food for work. Whether absolute father i.e God? He has awarded the punishment to child for her misdeed? (ii) Fifth day also passed and the petitioner did not eat anything. Fifth day the younger brother who was pursuing his M.B.B.S degree in Merrut got much scared and he went to a person who was well known to the petitioner as he was under the impression that the person concerned might persuade the petitioner to take food. His brother was under the apprehension that the petitioner was not taking meal for some fault of his. The matured friend of the petitioner after knowing about his mental state without taking petitioner into confidence wrote a letter to the District Magistrate that the Petitioner was on indefinite fast for five days demanding that the survived baby of the family of Mawana of Meerut which committed suicide should be given some regular amount for her economic security. The District Magistrate scolded in this term, “such Bharat Gandhi dies every day, notice is given before going on hunger strike”. He submitted an application to the District Magistrate and asked the petitioner to go on fast before the office of the District Magistrate instead of doing the same in the closed room. He advanced the plea that due to hunger strike of the petitioner the survived baby will lead her life with honour as the government may provide some economic assistance. The petitioner could not deny that proposal because he was well-wisher of the baby and he was not accepting that approach heartily because that fast was not like to give any good effect on all such families coming on the verge of death. (iii) On the sixth day the personal matter of the petitioner was transformed to a public step. Some acquainted friends got him seated before the office of the District Magistrate. Days were passing on and only on the 10th day of the district administration came into action when a team of the doctors of the district hospital wrote as per test of blood, urine and physical state of the petitioner, - “he could die any moment.” After this report the Police came into action and after arresting the petitioner at 7.00 P.M. from the collectorate wanted to admit him in the hospital. But the Medical college hospital refused to admit him after watching report and observing his integrity and resolution and advised the police to prepare the case of attempt to commit suicide against him and to forcibly administer food. The Police forcibly tried to administer juice at midnight with a view to break his fast, physically tortured him and even threatened. But the police bowed down before his integrity. Therefore, the police dropped him back to the same spot where he was sit on dharna. The district administration started initiating action on 11th day. With co-operation from some of the local leaders a cheque of Rs. 50 thousand from the Prime Minister Fund was handed over to the petitioner on the 14th day.
(iv) During his experience of fast, the petitioner came to know that there are some people in the society, who are judicious and they can support any mission to change unjustified economy and system to governance. The petitioner demanded Rs. 1750 for the whole life for the survived baby because during that period that amount was half of the average domestic purchasing power. The petitioner demanded that amount because with that amount the baby whose father was dead could live with honour in economic security cover. If the father of the nation. She should be given the right of consuming at least half of the amount of the average purchasing power per month. That is why the petitioner sought that amount as life long pension for her so that she could live with honour. But that demand was not conceded and one time grant of Rs.50 thousand was given to her instead of giving that regular cash right. The petitioner took that grant as alm. Therefore that cheque of Rs. 50 thousand made the people present at the spot somewhat zealous but the petitioner took it just a means to allure. Even then the petitioner had to break his fast because the people who became near and dear to him during the fast intensified their pressure on him. They suggested that it was necessary for the petitioner to survive to carry out economic right based on
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birth and they were all with him in that fight. The petitioner had to submit to that plea and he broke his fast.
(v) The incidents that took place during his fast inspired the petitioner to realize this fact that the right to the property in succession must not be confined to a few rather it should be given to all and that may be only measure which may provide the opportunity to the people to survive not at the cost of others. The rent of the property of gross domestic legacy earned by the ancestors may become the means to lead life with resolution for the people like him.
During his fast the petitioner came to know that now it would be his duty to work for giving the share of gross domestic legacy of nation to every citizen and awake the conscience of these having surplus amount to return the same.
(e) Contribution in spiritual knowledge-
That the principal petitioner was forced to think about the spiritual and philosophical questions because the social, political and economic values of today have emerged out from the traditional answers to such questions. The petitioner was of the view that if there is defect in the building then there is some fault on the part of science of civil engineering. He was also of this view that it would not be possible to make the building better without examining this science. In view of all these made self-retrospect regarding origin of matter, origin of life, origin of man, the nature of human conscience, Dwait-Adwait structure of conscience, reasons of difference in perception, interrelations between the person-society nature etc. The conclusions he reached through his self- retrospection were somewhat different from the traditional conclusions, therefore he wrote some books to transcript his conclusions. One book namely Janopanishad has been presented as concern part of this petition.
(f) The formulation of amendment in the Constitution of India -
That the petitioner was acquainted with the process of formation of world market system since 1990. He was also well conversant with the exercise going on at international level during those days for setting up the World Trade Organization. Though the petitioner was in support of the indigenous movements going on those days against the transfer of economic sovereignty of the governments of the countries in the office of the world traders located at Zeneva. But there was no match between the power of the agitators and the world traders. Therefore, the petitioner could not actively participate in such movements. He felt the need of political reforms to compensate the loss incurred on account of economic reforms considering the contention of the agitators. In view of this need the petitioner formulated amendment proposals of 76 pages for the Constitution of India and for symbolic public evaluation and support he traveled 130 villages on foot. On 15th August, 2000, this proposal was sent to the then President of India Shri K.R. Narayanan through the District Magistrate of Meerut and after some time the petitioner described in detail about the proposal in personal meeting with the President.
(g) 83 days in Jail for the cause of labourers-
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The Spinning Mill located at Meerut, which was affiliated to U.P. State spinning Mill Corporation, Kanpur was closed down in 1998 under the disinvestment policy. The Textile Secretariat of U.P. Mill Management, District administration, some local leaders and traders coming together made an exercise to sell the mill in throwaway price and to get commission on that. Almost for two years the labourers were not paid any wages. On 14th January, the District Administration asked the labourers to submit affidavits and vacate the houses. In the affidavits they were asked to write that there was no arrear to any wages against the government and they are vacating their houses at their will and they are handing over the keys to the administration. The labourers were promised to give cheque of handsome amount of VRS in lieu of the affidavits. The administration handed over the incomplete cheque to them and deliberately committed mistake in calculation. When the labourers went to Bank with those cheques, they found that the cheques were bounced and the Bank administration referred to written order of the District Administration to stop payment. In such situation around two and half thousand labourers were compelled to spend their right under the open sky in the premises of mill in chilling cold. From 14th January to 18th January 2001 they spent their night in such condition. They even met local leaders and public representatives, but of no avail. On 20th January 2001 at 1.00 p.m. the petitioner along with some people reached there to invite the labourers to attend a public meeting to be organized on 25th January 2001. The condition of the premises of mill was such as if earthquake had hit them. Belongings of the labourer were lying outside and the buyers of junk were purchasing them at throw away prices. Children were restless and the old ones were looking despair. The women encircled the petitioner and began to wait against the injustice as he was a ray of hope for them. The petitioner forgot everything about the preparation of his public meeting on 25th January 2001 in which former Prime Minister Shri V.P.Singh also was to address. The petitioner asked some of his men to go with the labourers to talk with the D.M about injustice made with regard to vacating their houses. All the labourers who were under distress began to request the petitioner to accompany them. In such situation the petitioner walked on foot with two thousand labourers and they by travelling the stretch of 18 kilometer reached the collectorate at around 7.30 P.M. The administration had deputed P.A.C around the collectorate. The collector was likely to be at his residence in that hour, hence all of them reached his residence. The main gate was closed. All these incidents showed that the collector was in hand in glove with that conspiracy. Therefore, the petitioner putting his life in danger staged dharna inside the room after opening the main gate without taking permission and sent a message to him that he too should feel the pain of snatching the houses of 2000 labourers. The petitioner submitted a symbolic letter of dismissal to him through his Steno in which it was mentioned that the conduct of DM showed that he was not fit for the post and the regional councilor was symbolically appointed as DM till the keys of their houses are given back to the labourers. The District Magistrate took this action of the petitioner as assault on his honour. He instead of talking to them ordered the police to use force against them. In the lathi charge many people were hurt and demonstrators were driven away. The petitioner was assaulted till he fell unconscious. He regained consciousness after two hours in a hospital wherein he found handculf in his hands. The police arrested 29 people along with the petitioner and sent them to Jail by imposing as many sections of criminal offence against them. In Meerut Jail, the petitioners was asked by the co-mates not to go on fast, therefore the petitioner took half meal only one time a day till 6 months to continue the fight for the cause of labourers. He continued his resolve of not taking full meal even after he came out of Jail. The D.M. involved his entire machinery to trace any shortcoming in the background of the petitioner but
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they found nothing. Then the DM wrote down a fake history sheet of the petitioner with his own hands and on that basis the district administration issued an order to put him Jail for one year under the National Security Act 1980 as an attempt to prove him dangerous for the internal security of the nations and the DM submitted report to the UP Governor and the Ministry of Home Affairs for granting approval to his order. On 22nd January 2001 the labourers lodged in Jail became very much worried to see that order and they through their mutual understanding decided to support the petitioner and they all refused to get released on bail. The District Magistrate got fake bail papers prepared through an unauthorized advocate but not any of them was ready to furnish bail paper. The Government constituted a board of three Judges of Allahabad High Court to inquire into the charges made by the District Magistrate against the petitioner. The police handcuff the petitioner transferred him from the Merrut Jail to the Locknow Jail and he was produced before the Judges next day under high security arrangement. The dialogue between the petitioner and the Judges may be helpful in understanding this incident in proper perspective . The dialogue is as follows:- Judge (1) – What is your name? The petitioner (hereinafter accused) -Sir my name is Bharat Gandhi. Judge (1) Are you a writer? Accused - Yes, Sir, but not a professional one. Judge (1)- Had you tresspassed the residence of the DM of Meerut and occupied the same? Accused - No Sir, I didn’t occupy. I had staged Dharna. Judge (1) Did you stage Dharna inside the house of DM? Accused - Yes Sir. Judge (2) Do you accept that you had staged Dharna inside the residence of DM? Judge (3) Do you know the consequence of it? You will be languishing in jail whole life. Accused - Sir! Fact doesn’t require admission. Truth is Truth. If you accept, it is truth; if you don’t accept, it is not truth. Judge (1) - (pointing out the fellow judges to stop) Your written reply shows that you are a writter. You have written many books. You can distinguish good and bad. Do you consider it appropriate to stage Dharna inside the residence of DM? Accused - I find it 100% wrong. Judge - Do you act on the thing you consider 100 percent inappropriate? Accused - Sir, one chooses proper alternation if one is asked to choose between proper and improper. If one has to choose between less inappropriate and more inappropriate, one will choose less inappropriates. Judge (3) - (Scolding) Do you consider it less inappropriate to occupy the residence of DM? Accused - Sir! Had you been at my place and the children and women encircle you and tell about their plight and show their olds and children shivering with cold. Had they shown you their half burnt houses which they had themselves burnt to save themselves from biting cold. Had you seen junkdealers carrying their belongings. Had you seen their utensils, clothes, coats lying at sixes and seven and if there was sympathy and pain left in your heart for humanity, you could have not only staged Dharna inside DM’s residence, but even behaded him. I had simply staged Dharna and requested him to talk to us. Had he come to talk, situation couldn’t have worsen in this manner. Judge (2) - There must be some truth in charge sheet. There is no smoke without fire. Accused - Sir, during the lathicharge made by the polilce the blood of mill workers was shed, they got hurt, no FIR was lodged, no medical check up was conducted; contrary to that, the DM got false medical certificate issued from the CMO by threatening him. It was shown that all of his staff
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were wounded. The wound they had received ten years ago was shown as fresh wound. They were slapped with the maximum sections of C.R.P.C. The police assaulted labourers during darkness and may be one or two staff could have been mistakenly beaten by the police none of the labourers had raised their hands. There was no question of wounding anyone. Judge (1) - Mr. Gandhi! If you are released from the jail, then every demonstrator will start occupying DM residence and if you are continued in jail, it would be injustice against you. You are a man of understanding. What could you have done if you were at our place? Accused - Sir, please don’t transfer your dilemma on me. You have to judge as to whether Bharat Gandhi lodged in jail under the National Security Act is really dangerous for the nation or he is an architect of nation? If Bharat Gandhi is dangerous for the security of the nation and you release him, it will encourage criminals and if you put him in jail, the corrupt official’s stand will be vindicated and the people of new generation who will be against their corruption will get shocked to hear this news and will turn their feet back. If you held the charge sheet of the DM correct, he will be encouraged to commit forgery. He will again level some more charges against me. This time he has conspired to put me in jail for life long. After this incident the number of such leaders will increase who come just for show off and get their photograph liked for the Newspaper and genuine satyagrahees will keep mum. They will lift their dharna after correspondents of news papers leave the place. Straw will come up. Now you have to decide as to which type of social activists or bureaucrats you want in the society willow will destroy crops of the paddy. Now you have to decide as to which type of social activist and bureaucrat you want? Judge (1) Now tell me there are serious criminal charges against you. NSA has been applied on you. 31 persons including you are detained in jail. What interest the administration has putting you all in jail if you didn’t commit anything wrong. Accused- I am detained in jail for the last two and half months. I don’t know anything about the outside world that is going on these days. When in jail the the labourers caome into my regular contact they expressed their apprehension about likelihood of scam in sale of the mill. The cost of mill was evaluated Rs. 180 crore but the then Secretary of industry, heigher officials of textile corporation of Kanpur, the manager of Partapur mill, the district magistrate of Merrut, the local MLA and one minister of UP Government made a plan together to sell the mill at Rs. 20 crore to an industrialist. They had planned to deposit only 20 crore in the exchequer of UP Government and to divide the rest of the amount among themselves. I have drawn this conclusion only that the above plan could not have been executed if I was to be released from jail. After this information only I caome to realize this fact that the DM had issued illegal order and resorted to illegal means since he had promised to get the promises of mill vacated anyhow. After my arrest the DM asked the police set the colony ablaze. The colony was burnt to ashes. He asked the mounting force of the police to flag march in the colony to create terror in minds of the labourers. The leaders of the labourers were arrested. All of them were forced to go back to their native places lying thousand Kilomatres away. Thus the DM got the colony vacated. Now calculate it for the movement. The number of such mills as one of Merrut is 29 in UP. On an average 2 thousand labourers work in one mill. Thus the number of mill workers comes around 60,000 Rs. 1500 crore is to paid by the government on account of VRS of these workers. The value of the assets of these mills is around Rs. 60,000 if the plan of Merrut succeeds, the scam of Rs. 7500 crore will take place. If that amount is divided equally among 10 persons, each one will get Rs. 75 crore. If it is divided among 100 persons, each one will get Rs. 7.5 crore. Sir, Do you consider that the character of the Indian bureaucrats is such high that they willn’t put a few Bharat Gandh is in jail terming them as terrorists to get such a huge amount?
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Judge (2) - Have you asked anyone to favor you? Accused - No, Even I never made any attempt to secure my bail. Judge (2)- Who is surendra Mohan? Accused - I don’t know. Judge (2)- He is an ex M.P. Accused - Yes, he is my well-wisher. His articles get published regularly in the news papers. Judge (2) Have you sought his help? Accused - No. Judges (2)- In your reply you have requested to accompany a lawyer. Why you want so? Accused- I was not aware of this fact that the lawyer is not allowed here. Judge (2)- Now you can go. Judge (2)- Send the DM (To the orderly). On Saturday dated 12th April, the jail administration called him (Bharat Gandhi) to the jail office and referred him to the fax of the governor, U.P. It was mentioned in the fax that the charges made against Bharat Gandhi under NISA by the district administration have been dismissed on the basis of the recommendation of the state advisory comprising of the above three judges. Hence, the district administration is hereby ordered to release Bharat Gandhi immediately and to inform the Rajbhawan by fax. The jail administration after taking finger prints of all his ten fingers (one finger came to be crashed later on) and it was explained to the governor through Fax that “Bharat Gandhi has been released in the respective case but he has been detained in jail for he is desirable in other cases.” That other case was the same against which decision was like to be delivered on next Monday. On one Monday the special judge in his 14 pages judgment asked the jail administration to release all of them detained in jail because they are found innocent. It was said further in the judgment that it came to notice and it proved during the trial that the steno of the DM by lodging FIR made a criminal conspiracy for which 30 innocent persons had to remain in jail for 83 days and the precious time of the court got wasted. Therefore, a separate case may be filed against him under section 344 of CRPC for imposing penalty of Rs. 500 or three month jail or both. The case was transferred in the special court for daily hearing as 31 persons were lodged in Meerut jail and moral pressure was put by the chief minister and an ex-Prime Minister. The petitioner pleaded his case before the court. Court proceeding was conducted very fast for 23 days only and on Friday dated 11 April 2001 reserved its decision and fixed 14th April 2001 for delivering judgment. Thus the petitioner with his labourers friends was released from jail after 83 days.
(h) The formation of Federation for Economic Freedom for political reforms-
That a background had already existed to form an organization under the convenorship of the principal petitioner at the end 14 days fast as mentioned in the para (g) of this chapter. During January to December of 1999 nomonclature of the objectives, working nature of this organization was finally resolved since then this organization has been struggling against atrocity made by the strong and powerful against the weak through its public meetings, seminars, foot marches, processions, demonstrations Dharnas, memoranda, later writings and now this organization is knocking at the gates of the committee on petition of Lok Sabha. The workers of this organization being run in the names of ARTHIK AZADI PARISANGH have decided to ensure regular income of Votership to everyone through competent political structures with a view to eradicate poverty from all over the world and world peace is achieved for ever.
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(i) Role as principal petitioner in the petition of for Votreship-
That the ARTHIK AZADI PARISANGH, while struggling for the cause of Votership came to this conclusion that this issue should not be polarized only among the public but it should also be brought in the cognizance of the body like Parliament which is only authorized for this work and the PARISANGH should do everything for getting economic rights based on birth i.e. votership to the voters from Parliament. After this conclusion a cell of PARISANGH namely Parliament Affairs Cell was opened in the month of November 2004. This cell constituted a Petition Committee of the cell to file petition in Lok Sabha. A compaign was moved on behalf of this committee to introduce the members of Lok Sabha with the subject of this petition with a view to present that petition in Lok Sabha. The principal petitioner himself assumed the charge of this Cell and organized some people to work in the Petition Committee. He was presented all the time as main spokesman of 274 members of Parliament between 6 December 2004 and April 2006 the principal petitioner is even prepared to argue about every dimension of the proposal of Votership in the committee on petition of Lok Sabha while playing the role of principal petitioner of the petitioner.
(J) Web ages on Bharat Gandhi
For Details and updated information official wesite is:- www.votership.org/bharatgandhi www.votership.com/bharatgandhi www.politicalreforms.org/bharatgandhi
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FEDERATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Paliament Affairs Cell ...... 154 Brief History of Work done by “Federation for Economic Freedom” ...... 155
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PALIAMENT AFFAIRS CELL
(i) Introduction of the committee-
ARTHIK AZADI ANDOLAN PARISANGH had constituted a new Cell namely Parliament Affairs Cell in the month of November, 2004. The main member of the PARISANGH Bharat Gandhi took its charge and constituted of working committee under the chairmanship of the senior Advocate of Supreme Court, Shri Virendra Bandhu for filing petition in Lok Sabha on the subject of Votership. The committee started its work on 6 December 2004. The committee till April 2006 had already requested 274 members of Lok Sabha to present this petition in Lok Sabha after meeting with them in regard to Votership. 110 member of Parliament gave written notice for presenting this petition after holding talk and debate with the committee and more than 110 members gave assurance for doing so and some of the members expressed their disagreement with this proposal. Please return to the Section - 6 of this of this petition to get acquainted with the names parties and the States of the members of Parliament who gave written notices.
(ii) Member of Committee
S No. NAME AGE DESIGNATION OCCUPATION 1 Inder Makwana 78 President Senior Adv - Supreme Court 2 Sunil Anand 54 Vice President Businessman 3 Baliram Sharma 60 Vice President Retired Officer- Central Govt 4 Dr Swati Bhatnagar 39 Genl Secretary Medicine 5 Asha Ram Gautam 38 Secretary journalist 6 Virender Bandhu 75 Member Senior Adv- Supreme Court 7 Roshan Lal Aggarwal 56 Member Businessman & economist 8 Rajesh Sharma37 Member Journalist - Electronic Media 9 Asit Kumar Rai 42 Member Advocate - High Court 10 Suresh kr Sharma 39 Member Business Consultant 11 Satya Prakash Bharat 45 Member Character Builder 12 Gurbinder Singh 32 Member Businessman
(iii) Address of the Committee-
For Advise / Complaint / Inquiry / Help- Phone Nos. 09818 433 422, 09868 062 400, 0930 222 4440, 0121-2763037 Correspondance : C/O Sunil Anand, Office In Charge- Petition Committee, Parliament Affairs Cell B 5/124 Paschim Vihar, email - [email protected]
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(iv) Campaign of Meeting with MPs -
This is the first petition in the history of Indian Parliament as to so large no. of MPs are presenting this petition in the Lok Sabha. Petitions are presented usually by one or two members in past. But the very subject of this petition is related with all the Mps. The reason is that there are large population residing in every constituencies, every where there are large number of unemployed youth, WTO has affected about all the areas badly, everybody need political financing to perform his social job effectively. In fact petitions are means to raise the issues of public interest of the respective constituencies, so the issue of Votership was related with each and every MP. Observing these relation petitioners planned to meet maximum number of Members of Parliament and to request for countersigning the petition. During 6th December 2004 to the Budget Session April 2006 about 274 members were visited and sometimes more than four meetings were conducted with the same member to discuss the issue in details. After listening the proposal so many rejected the proposal at a glance, some of them were neutral, some wished to wait for the decision of their party, whereas 110 members observed that in the matter of petitions parties have no role till the report of Petition Committee comes. Please refer Section - 6 of this petition to introduce with the list of above mentioned Members.
BRIEF HISTORY OF WORK DONE BY “FEDERATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM”
(Please refer chapter 12.3 of Section - 3 of this petition to introduce with the work done by the organization.) (a) Seminar on - “Emerging world order” (18th July 1999) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran *Rashtriya Sahara * others
(b) Seminar on - “The ways to fight against Dunkell” (01st August, 1999) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(c) Seminar on - “The Menifesto of the World Economic Era” (14-15th- Nov, 1999) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(d) Submission of Memorandum by hand in the Geneva office of the WTO “ (04th Jan, 2000) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(e) “Message for change” a padyatra of 130 villages of Meerut District, UP (20TH May - 13th Aug, 2000) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(f) Sending the proposal of amendments to the Constitution of India to the president of India (15th Aug, 2000) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(g) All Party Conference on District Level on Economic Democracy (14th Aug, 2002)
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* Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(h) All Party Conference on District Level on Votership and South Asian Votership (01st Oct, 2002) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(i) ‘The Strategy of ignored Voters by the respective Country Government for eliminating the suffocation of South Asia Vatan’ (30th Jan, 2003) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(j) Demonstration of voters for Votership in other words voter pension (14th Aug, 2003) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(k) Demonstration of voters for Votership in other words voter pension (01st Oct, 2003) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(l) Demonstration of voters for Votership and South Asian Votership (30th Jan, 2004) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(m) The Conference of the Election Candidates on Votership and South Asian (11th July 2004) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(n) Demonstration of voters for Votership in Delhi and Memorandum to President. (14th Aug, 2004) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(o) Demonstration of voters for Votership in Delhi and memorandum to the PM. (14th Aug, 2005) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(p) Seminar on –Shaheed Bhagat Singh and his thought on economic freedom. (1st Oct, 2005) * Invitation Letter * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(q) Demonstration of voters and parliamentarians for Votership in Delhi and memorandum to the PM and president of Congress Smt. Sonia Gandhi. (14th Aug, 2006) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
(r) Discussion on ‘’Roll of Votership in controlling Population Growth’’ in Meerut, UP (1st Oct, 2006) * Invitation Letter * Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara others
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(s) Public meeting on ‘’Making Policy of workers of organization on assembly elections’’ in Meerut, UP (25st Jan, 2006) * Invitation Letter * Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara others
(t) Demonstration in Delhi of voters and parliamentarians for tabling Votership Bill in the parliament and memorandum to the PM, Speaker, and president of United Progressive Alliance Smt. Sonia Gandhi. (14th Aug, 2007) * Invitation Letter * Memoradum* Press Release * Press Coverage * Amar Ujala * Dainik Jagran * Rashtriya Sahara * others
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PARLIAMENTARIANS OF INDIA FOR VOTERSHIP
STATEWISE DESCRIPTION OF MORE THAN 110 MPS
PRESENTING THE PETITION IN LOK SABHA ...... 157
WEB PAGES ON WORKS OF PARLIAMENTARIANS OF INDIA ON VOTERSHIP ...... 163
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STATEWISE DESCRIPTION OF MORE THAN 112 MPS PRESENTING THE PETITION IN LOK SABHA:
Name Party Constituency Date Assam Shri Dr. A K Sarma AGP Lakhimpur 30.07.05 Shri S Sonowal AGP Dibrugarh 13.10.05 Shri Biren Singh Engti INC Sw.Aa 13.10.05 Aru nachal Pradesh Shri Tapir Gao BJP Arunchal E 10.05.05 Shri Khiren Rijiju BJP Arunachal W 10.05.05 AndhraPradesh Shri J.Prakash Reddy INC Kurned 18.08.05 Dr M Jaganath TDP Nagarkurnool16.05.05 Uttranchal Shri R K Badi S.P Haridwar 11.05.05 Shri B S Rawat BJP Almoda 07.06.05 U.P Shri R.P. Verma S.P. Kheri 21.03.05 Shri Baleshwar Yadav N.L.P. Padrina 12.04.05 Shri Hari Kewal Prasad S.P. Salempur 25.04.05 Shri Mitrasen Yadav B.S.P. Faizabad 26.04.05 Shri Lalmani Prasad B.S.P. Basti 02.05.05 Shri Ramji Lal Suman S.P. Firozabad 03.05.05 Shri Radhe Shyam Kori S.P. Dhatampur 10.05.05 Shri Raja Ram Pal B.S.P. Bilhoor 11.05.05 Shri Chandra Pal Singh S.P. Jhansi 12.05.05 Shri Mahendra P. Nishad B.S.P. Fatehpur. 12.05.05 Shri Shafiqurchman Bark S.P. Muradabad 20.05.05 Shri Shailendra Kumar S.P. Chayal 12.05.05 Shri Kailash Nath Yadav B.S.P. Chandooli 28.07.05 Shri Mohd. Tahir Khan B.S.P. Sultanpur 05.08.05 Shri Eliaz Aazmi B.S.P. Shahabad 31.08.05 Shri Kishan Singh Diler B.J.P. Hathras 04.01.05 Shir Santosh Gangwar B.J.P. Bareli 08.11.05 Shri Mohan Singh S.P. Devria 09.12.05 Kuw, Rewati R Singh S.P. Elahbad 16.02.06 Smt. Rubab Sayda S.P. Bahraich. 23.02.06 Shri Raj Babbar S.P. Agra 01.03.06 Shri Bhanu Pratap Verma B.J.P. Jallone 13.03.06 Shri Raghuraj S Shakya S.P. Itava 31.03.06 Smt Usha Verma S.P. Hardoi 31.03.06 Shri Mohd Moqeem B.S.P. Domariaganj 22.03.06 Shri Munshiram R.LD Bijnore 04.04.06 Shri C B Singh S.P. Furrukabad 04.04.06 Shri Jaiprakash S.P. Mohanlalganj11.05.06 Shri Shyam C Gupta S.P. Banda 14.05.06
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Shri K V Singh S.P. Gonda 18.05.06 Shri Pankaj Chaudhary B.J.P. Maharajganj 19.05.06 Shri Ashok Rawat B.S.P Misrik 23.05.06
Orissa Prof. Prasanna Patsani B.J.D. Bhuvneshwar19.03.05 Shri Mohan Jaina B.J.D. Jajpur 26.04.05 Shri Anant Naik B.J.P. Kyonjhar 31.08.05 Shri Parshuram Majhi B.J.P. Navrangpur 08.03.06
Karnataka Shri C.H. Vijai Shankar B.J.P. Mysore 03.08.05 Shri Mallikarjunaiya B.J.P. Tumkur 26.08.05 Shri C Jigajinagi B.J.P. Chikodi 11.05.06
Gujrat Shri Pushpadan Gadhwi B.J.P. Kutchh 14.10.05 Dr. Vallabh B Kathiria B.J.P. Rajkot 12.05.06 Goa Shri Shripad Y.Naik B.J.P. Panji 07.08.05
Chhattisgarh Shri Baliram Kashyap B.J.P. Bastar 01.08.05 Shri Vishnu Dev Say B.J.P. Raigarh 05.08.05 Smt. Karuna Shukla B.J.P. Janjgir 15.12.05 Shri Sohan Potai B.J.P. Kankar 12.05.06 Shri Ramesh Bais B.J.P. Raipur 18.05.06
J & K Shri Abdul Rashid Shahin N.C. Baramula 19.08.05
Jharkhand Shri Furkan Ansari INC Gooda 07.06.05 Shri Bagun Sambrui INC Sinhbhumi 28.07.05 Shri Sunil Kumar Mahto JMM Jamshedpur 01.08.05 Shri C S Dubey INC Dhanbad 12.08.05 Shri Shibu Soren JMM Dumka 29.08.05 Shri Sushila karketa INC Khunti 20.09.05 Shri Teklal Mahto JMM Giridihd 08.12.05 Shri Hemlal Murmu JMM Rajmahal 21.12.05
Tamilnadu Shri L.Ganeshan MDMK Tiruchirapalli 27.10.05 Shri Kadir Mahiuddin DMK Vellore 08.12.05
Nagaland
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Shri W. Wangyuh N.P.F. Nagaland 19.03.05
W.Bengal Shri Jochim Baxla R.S.P. Alipur Dwar 29.04.05 Shri Ranen Burman R.S.P. Balurghat 22.12.05
Bihar Shri Ganesh P.Singh R.J.D. Jahanabad 04.05.05 Shir Devendra P. Yadav R.J.D. Jhanjharpur 05.05.05 Shri Ramkripal Yadav R.J.D. Patna 03.08.05 Shri Sitaram Yadav R.J.D. Sitamadhi 04.08.05 Shri Raghunath Jha R.J.D. Betiah 17.02.06
M.P. Shri C P Singh B.J.P. Sidhi 19.10.05 Shri Ganesh Singh B.J.P. Satna 27.10.05 Shri C Tripathy B.J.P. Reewa 06.04.06
Manipur Shri Mani Chernamai Ind Manipur Out 28.04.05
Maharashtra Shri S.D. Mandlik NCP Kolhapur 28.07.05 Shri Anna Sahib Patil BJP Irandol 14.10.05 Shri Sanjay Dhotre BJP Akola 19.10.05 Shri Raosaheb P Danve B.J.P. Jalana 20.02.06 Shri Subhash Deshmukh B.J.P. Sholapur 20.02.06 Shri Ramdas Athawale R.P.I. Pandarpur 27.02.06 Shri H D Chavan B.J.P. Malegaon 07.03.06 Shri D B Patil B.J.P. Nanded 09.03.06 Shri Hari Singh Rathaur B.J.P. Yavatmal 12.05.06 Smt Roopatai D N Patil B.J.P Latur ....
Mizoram Shri Vanlalzwama MNF Mizoram 19.03.05
Rajasthan Dr. Karan Singh Yadav INC Alwar 03.08.05 Shri Ram Singh Kaswan BJP Churu 05.08.05 Shri Dhan Singh Rawat BJP Banswada 20.09.05 Shri R.S. Kaushal BJP Kota 12.12.05 Shri Rasa Singh Rawat BJP Ajmer 16.12.05 Shri N C Chauhan BJP Shrigangan 20.12.05 Shri Girdhari L Bhargava B.J.P. Jaipur 23.02.06 Shri Subhash Maharia B.J.P. Sikar 02.03.06
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Shri Srichand Kriplani B.J.P. Chittorgarh 02.03.06 Shri Jaswant S Bishnoi B.J.P. Jodhpur 31.03.06
H.P. Shri Suresh Chandel BJP Hamirpur 25.07.05
Haryana Shri Jai Prakash INC Hisar 25.07.05
Sikkim Shri Nakul Das Rai SDF Sikkim 09.04.05
Punjab Shri Avinash Rai Khanna B.J.P. Hoshiarpur 17.03.06
Delhi Shri Vijay Kumar Malhotra B.J.P South Delhi
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WEB PAGES ON WORKS OF PARLIAMENTARIANS OF INDIA ON VOTERSHIP
Visit www.votership.org/parliament_of_india for details about works of Parliamentarians of India on Votership
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OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WORKING FOR VOTERSHIP There are many non political, political and para-political organizations and individuals are working across the world. To access the detail informations please visit the web pages of the wesites as follows: www.votership.org www.votership.com www.politicalreforms.org www.votersparty.in
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