Savitri Era Party calls upon to defeat the hindutva brigade

[The partyless wonders
Shekhar Gupta indian express: Saturday, May 02, 2009 sg@expressindia.com
The new crop of independents mean well. But they don’t understand or respect our politics...
It will not work because, fundamentally, the notion that you can invent a new politics where independents displace parties is not only fanciful, it is also undemocratic. The essence of parliamentary democracy is the party system. All democracies are built around competing parties, ideologies, mass leaders, manifestos...
Party politics is the most meritocratic profession of all in democracies.]

[Methinks Shekhar Gupta mistakes “politics” for “political organization.” And since something is deeply wrong with the contents of Indian “politics,” something must be even wronger with our “political organizations.” The interview with the RSS bossman proves it. However, this is exactly why there is a need for a new politics – a politics of the partyless wonders. All politics is about getting one’s voice heard in the din. There is the din of parliament. And there is the din of the “para-parliament,” the press, tv, blogs etc. This is where all the action of the new politics must focus. Here, those with “political organization” behind them have noticeably failed – look at Advani’s or Laloo’s blogs. Recall that Gandhi was bigger than the Congress organization – and he was an active para-parliamentarian. His Young India reached out to millions. One thing about these partyless wonders is that they are distinctly pro-market. For A New Politics
from ANTIDOTE by Sauvik]

Savitri Era Party calls upon all its associates and well wishers to come out in full solidarity to defeat the hindutva brigade which is apparently on the run. [TNM]