A month ago, over 20 organizations came together to start the #unManifesto campaign on Youth Ki Awaaz for online crowd-sourcing of promises that people want their politicians to make as a part of their manifesto. From having #unManifesto trend on Twitter, to the campaign being featured on NDTV. Below is how we’re making this work!
Raj
While this a well-intentioned movement, the whole approach is wrong. Why this dependence on the Govt. to do everything for you? Why give them more power and more money especially when they have been wasting it and will continue to waste it?
I went through the posts on the campaign website and almost all are about expanding the bureaucracy and the powers of the Govt. Rarely are there any posts that say ” Charge less taxes, remove license-quota /regulations, abolish departments, cut spending, give more freedoms”. While there is some talk about the law-order-justice situation, many are marred by suggesting special laws for a particular group (i.e. women, minorities etc.) rather than for everybody in general. This is groupism.
Is the educated net-savvy youth so inconfident and unassured that they need public sector nannies to take care of them?
Anshul Tewari
Hi Raj, thank you for your comment. While there are multiple folds to this, the first step is definitely the idea that no one should work in isolation. Same goes for the political class and people. I do agree with you that we should not give them more power that they can exploit, but the idea again is to make sure that they also get to know what people are demanding. Since the campaign is people driven, I would not want to speak a lot about the groupism, but the campaign in no way wants to create public sector nannies. We’re already preparing something larger for Govt accountability towards the promises they make.
Anyhow, thank you for your comment and for being so active on YKA. 🙂
Raj
Thanks for your response. YKA is definitely a great platform for the youth to speak out and give their diverse views.
I am not blaming the campaign nor YKA since the views belong to the youth. The campaign by itself doesn’t wish to create public sector nannies, but rather the youth who are posting on it do want.