Nilacharal

It all started with a humble registration of the domain name IniOruSudhathiram.org, on a breezy yet sunny Feb evening at San Francisco, by Nachimuthu, a young and energetic software consultant, as a way of giving a face to all the dreams and passions that he has been carrying on in his heart for years together. He went on to find like minded people throughout the cyber world. His mission was soon reinforced by like minded veterans - Akbar Batcha from Saudi, Waradarajan from Chennai and Milind Kotwal from Mumbai. This core team is architecting this movement at the moment. They strongly feel they are working towards attaining the freedom and democracy, what the father of our nation, Gandhiji wanted we to have, in which people's and nation's interest are put forth and in which individuals interest has no place to be in, unlike what is being today. "Unlike Gandhji, who fought against the British, we are fighting against our own people" says Nachimuthu, with a sad chuckle. "But, like Gandhiji," he continues, "we are determined to get this (second) freedom for us and we are sure to get the support of our people, in this journey of ours, to realize our dreams, which is the most needed ingredient for our success" says a beaming Nachimuthu.

Their vision is to provide a corruption free, clean Government and Governance which are more responsible towards the people and responsive to the needs of the people that would constantly work towards improving the standard of living of all Indians especially those of sub-standard, low and middle class people of India, while having an eye on strengthening our economy along with improving our status in the world politics as a nation.

The movement is gaining momentum and have members across the globe.They are currently carrying out campaigns in the cyber space to get atleast one member from each state and then one member from each district. They are also networking with similar cyber-groups.

But,our people are so obsessed with parties and symbols rather than the ideologies and policies.How are they going to break it?

They are primarily going to concentrate on the 40% of population which does not go to the voting booths at all since, they believe that, all the choices available to them at the time of elections are basically the same but are different in colors and symbols. NAMofIndia expect to gain the support of this population with it's clean form and progressive and true democratic policies.

They are also planning to conduct political awareness workshops and seminars primarily targeted at the youth and the educated in tandem throughout India, while they execute some pilot (social welfare) projects within their budgeted limits, as a way of proving their honest and sincere intentions to the general population. This exercise, they believe would attract more volunteers and members, who are clean and honest for the movement from all over India along with gaining support from the general population.

Thus they expect to have reasonable support from both voting and non-voting populations of India, at the time they would start standing in the elections, from the year 2005 onwards.

Fine with the strategy. But how about the finance and how are they going to manage it?

NAMofIndia is a self-sustaining movement meaning the members of the movement would provide the much needed sources of finance for it, by way of annual membership fees. NAMofIndia would budget all it's expenses for the year ahead and would always stay within the budget.

It may be quite possible that we may have a doubt as to how would they meet out their huge expenses during the time of election campaign. Their answer is simple and neat. They expect not to have a separate election campaign and spend huge sums of money towards it. Does that mean that, they are not going to have election campaign at all? No, they of course, are certainly going to have election campaign, but not at the time of elections alone, instead it would be an on-going campaign beginning from year 2003. They believe that, when they start executing the pilot social welfare projects and start conducting the awareness camps, workshops and seminars beginning 2003, which they believe is their way of campaigning for the elections, would start gathering and eventually provide them the required support from the general population at the time of actual elections from the year 2005. Also, they feel that, they would need big amount of money, only if they choose to play the game in accordance with the rules that have been established for the conventional politics that we see today. But, they believe that they are attempting to play a different game of politics altogether, as explained above. So, ideally, apart from the election deposit for the candidate, looks like they do not expect to spend much money towards a separate election campaign as such. Though looks like a highly ambitious idea, one would tend to ask why not?

Aren't we all waiting for those days to come?
Nilacharal will stand shoulder to shoulder with NamofIndia for this Herculian task.

"Never under estimate the power of small group of thoughtful individuals to bring changes in the world, infact, it is the only thing that often does. - Unknown"
If you feel like you are one among such, visit the rest at http://NAMofIndia.org