Before the campaign we were just thinking that Loksatta can make its mark in nellore, but now we really feel that there is a chance of winning it. And I hope it may be the same with other district head quarters as well. Here I am putting some of the highlights of the canvassing.
1. The team size was 1o on saturday ( 18-04-09) and 8 on sunday (19-04-09)
2. Covered 4 major areas in nellore i.e Balaji Nagar (partially), Narthaki Centre and trunk road completely, NTR Nagar and Nawab pet.
3. No other party goes door to door to explain about their party and its manifesto,principles (of course people know about those manifestos). Just the paid workers leave the pamplets in front of the doors and leave. Only Loksatta goes to door and spends 2-5 minutes to exaplain why one should vote for loksatta. This has been very successuful and it gave immense pleasure to the team. Now I feel very bad of myself for wasting lot many weekends.
4. While we were on the road, Two 'painters' came to us and asked for the pamplets and cards, then I asked ' Do you know about this party ? ' , they replied, " Sir, we attended JPs meeting in Nellore and since then we have a hope for a better life and we are also telling many of my friends". When I asked about their education, they told they discontinued their studies after Intermediate due to various reasons....
And folks, there were many more stories this way and all of them are looking for loksatta.
Believe me, there is much more craze out there than what we are actually thinking.
I strongly feel that If 50 people who knows and believes in Loksatta principles stronger, work for a week, A city can be changed/moved towards Loksatta. But its too late for us to work on that. Lets at least start working now, to transform the society..
[Attached is the clipping of canvassing on 18/04, from 'eenadu' Telugu news paper published on 19-04-09 in district edition.]
With best regards
Masthan
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good luck Masthan, Hope Loksatta win in NEllore
ReplyDeleteThanks praneeth. Winning is secondary. We could change as many people as we can and also learnt so many things. You see people scolding irrespective of any party, you see hard core people not even allowing inside the gates to explain about parties.. you see people scolding the officers for not getting their vote.. and people who are eagerly waiting for a real change. And there are people who asked ' How can we believe Loksatta, we dont what is RTI or any of JPs achievements.., your party leaders did nothing for us.. ", when I said how can they do without in any post or you want then spend their own money ?? they replied, if they really want to do, they can collect some donations and do it. Then we dont have any answer.
ReplyDeletewith these learnings, we are planning on further steps and strengthen the party for the upcoming elections i.e Corporation elections. We are planning teams ward wise and then first identify the local issues and then solve them by means of forcing the government or we have to do with donations...
Many more things on plate... if you want to join the team, please let me know.. We need to do this every where not just in nellore or hyderabad...
Thanking you
Mastthan
Good Job and keep up the good work.
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