Janta Durbar or People Grievance platform of CM-Delhi and others ministers was a baby`s first step to help defeat the unfair system which was running on network of corruption. Delhi`s People Grievance mechanism needs people protection and participation at ground zero.
People in large number are pouring in any AAP meeting with loads of their collective and personnel grievances. This public outburst shows that how the hidden `pains` stands unaddressed since several decades by the old broken, corrupt and disconnected system.
Instead of Pehley aap !.. Pehley aap ! ( First you…First you) protocol in an organised civil administration at times Public meetings go out of hand and become a satire with `pehle ! me` `pehla ! me` ( First Me) syndrome.
People in Janta Durbar or Mohalla Sammitti are so passionate to get connected with `new` leaders and CM that they fight to grab the mike and want to air their pains and grievances.
The mind set of the aaam admi is still to wish a hero or a leader single handed to do magic and deliver results.
People accustomed to old corrupt delivery system controlled by a single leaders are still not recognizing their ownership rights.
The reason is there was no collective mechanism called mohalla samaitte at that time.
The new government Janta Durbar step needs to be welcomed. Need of the hour is consolidate or build mohalla samatti organization in each ward via trained volunteers to shoot the troubles of residents and evolve a mechanism for fire fighting with better organisational handling.
CM-Delhi last such ‘janta darbar’ ended in total chaos, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said there would be no such public meets and the government will open new channels where people can report their grievances online, via post and through calls. There are people who just want to meet the Chief Minster, “so I will be available once a week for two to three hours to meet the people. People need not come to us at local level for their grievances. For that we are opening several avenues”.
Imagine a small cut while shaving a beard. Do we have to run to hospital for medical aid ?
No ! we have to allow the body holistic swaraj and `civil engineers` body platelets to naturally stitch the minor blood flow and stop the blood by cold water and by manual pressing.
Rather than addressing the complexities of people`s relationship with Nagar Sevak to an advantage, the rotten old system allowed its misplaced judgment to cloud its decision-making on palm greasers and corrupt middle men. Instead of wielding a partnership with the people of Delhi by addressing their grievances and assuaging their fears, `Netas` had put in place a system of extended patronage pivoted on select individuals. This was to serve as a one-stop fix-it-all. Not only was it a short cut to “manage” the state rather than “govern” it, it was also a means of checking dissent and Delhi inherent proclivity for self-governance which traditional political parties perceived as secession.
Sample a local comment to see how the traditional parties like BJP-Congress react to Janta Durbar :
“Think over it -if he(Arvind Kejriwal) become P.M of this country crores of people might be coming to Delhi to get their electricity connection restored or their water meter repaired what a fools paradise we are living now ?”
What these traditional corrupt parties leaders do not tell is why was Sheila Dixit –Anil Ambani nexus in 2007 allowed to inflate power bills three to four times without matching the purchasing power of pockets of aam admi that kept getting squeezed ?
The reason is there was no collective mechanism called mohalla samaitte at that time.
At present, I am trying to establish a Jan sampark yatra ( Journey to connect people problems) each day to meet people of East Delhi constituency and understand their problems.
A girl from Gandhi Nagar phoned me early morning on my number saying that she wants to stop the alcohol habit of his father. She wanted all the liquor shops to get closed immediately? My humble submission is instead of outsourcing political help to settle such issues there should be mobilisation of neighbours and relative consoling.
In Gandhi`s Gujarat there is `daru` being sold in backdoors of `Kirana` Shop which shall need a national policy attention and it is not clear that why should people working to survive under pressure to excel in their daily work drink at the cost of family unity.
The new government Janta Durbar step needs to be welcomed only to meet the CM. Need of the hour is to consolidate or to build mohalla samatti-Local peoples parliament organization to shoot the troubles of residents and evolve a mechanism for fire fighting with better organisational handling.
People as real owners of new system need some time to take simple, wise and fair decisions to deliver and protect the Swa-Raj or Self Raj.
rakeshmanchanda 