Team Kejriwal begins protests against rising electricity bills in Delhi

Team Kejriwal on Saturday launched their campaign for the Delhi Assembly elections with a protest against inflated power bills in the capital.

Shouting slogans like 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' (Long Live India), Team Kejriwal and their supporters began their protest in Delhi's Jantar Mantar area.

Kejriwal had earlier asked India Against Corruption volunteers to contest the Delhi Elections in 2013, but he reportedly had a tough time convincing some of the volunteers, who were upset with his decision to join politics.

Many of them voiced fears that the IAC's entry into politics will cut Opposition votes and directly benefit the Congress.

On September 23, Kejriwal had led a protest against the Delhi Government on power tariff hike and asked people not to pay electricity bills. The protest was the first after his split with Anna Hazare.

Around 300-400 people gathered at Jantar Mantar where Kejriwal announced a new 'Civil Disobedience Movement,' asking people not to pay the bills if the Sheila Dikshit government did not order an audit by the Comptroller and Auditor-General of private discoms (power distribution companies).

At the protest, people set fire to electricity bills, alleging there was collusion between the city government and the discoms to increase power tariff and help private companies earn more.

The assembly polls in Delhi are slated for November next year.

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How Congress and MNC-paid-mediamen (such as paid-Arnab) are helping Arvind Gandhi capture the protest-sector of India

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Problem in short :

If you or me were to illegally re-connect electricity wires, then policemen will beat the cr1p out of us and imprison us for weeks. And if we were do it again and again, then the punishments will get physically much harsher each time. But if Arvind Gandhi illegally re-connects wires, then policemen will at worst only arrest him, will NOT grievously hurt him and the judge will give him bail. And paid-media will project him as "Bhagat Singh 2" . This paid-media and friendly-policemen will enable Arvind Gandhi to capture the protest-industry of India, and become leader of "100% selfish protesters", "protestors without cause" and "protestors for publicity" aka "rent-a-cause protestors". And real activists will also end up getting attracted towards him. This way, using Arvind Gandhi, sponsors of paid-media will waste-away time of real activists and citizens.

How can we stop real activists getting pulled by Arvind Gandhi?

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Solution in detail :

We should highlight problems and solutions of the problems that Arvind Gandhi will dare not to touch because of the paid-media he depends on.

Examples are Bangladeshi infiltration, weakening of Indian Military, Right to Recall Doordarshan Chairman, Right to Recall drafts, distribution of mineral royalty, rising domination of MNC-owners and Missionaries. IOW, everytime, we say the word "corruption", we must also add words "Bangladeshi infiltrators, distribution of mineral royalty, poverty" etc. Because if we use the word "corruption" only, then IAC-puppets will get chance to capture the debate by citing Janlokpal. But if we use the words "Bangladeshi infiltrators, distribution of mineral royalty amongst citizens", they will be on backfoot as they have supported Bangladeshi infiltrators and at the same time are scared of publicizing their support !!! This is also necessary to tell activists that IAC is only about creating Congress-2 or a mini-Congress or Paraja-Rajyam-Party-2 and nothing more.

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Problem in Detail :

Everyday, electricity companies cut cables of 100s of people who dont pay bill. The company can be wrong sometimes (mis-metering) and sometimes it could be fault of connection-owner. And bad laws worsen the problem. Now if you or me connect wires illegally, and that too in public and that too before TV-channels, then what would happen? Next day, electricity company will slap additional fine of1000 to5000 and may even file a police case. And policemen will ask for bribe of10000 and will start beating if we refuse. And judge will ask for bribe of20000 or deny bail. Now of course, if paid-media gives full coverage, then nothing of this sort will happen. If paid-media gives full coverage, then policemen will treat you with respect and present before judge, and judge will immediately give you bail. Media-coverage is hint to policemen and judges that "behave with this person properly, or else" . But if paid-media gives you no coverage, then total damage will be beatings plus35000 or more. And the illegally restored electricity connection will be cut in another 3-5 days anyway.

Now paid-media is more expensive that policemen and judges !!! eg paid-Arnab charges200,000 for ten minute long script. This includes 5 re-telecast. And for each extra re-telecast, he charges another20,000. And these are prices after volume discount and jaan-pehchaan. For those who have no jaan-pehchaan, no service is given because paid-arnab doesnt wants people to think that he is unpaid-arnab, and so cant afford to deal like a shop-keeper in open. And paid-star-news is more expensive than paid-arnab. The paid-media-support is signal to judges and policemen that "dont harm this person, treat him with care etc". And if paid-media doesnt give coverage to an activist, he will treated so badly that he will give up or will get liquidated if he doesnt give up.

So finally, amongst junior activists and citizens, Arvind Gandhi will emerge as "only man who dares". Because others will not get coverage, beaten till they give up or get liquidated (like Dixitjee was murdered). This way Arvind Gandhi will capture the protest-sector. Many activists who want publicity will see a real or fake opportunity that if they join any other group, they will get no fame, but if they join Arvind Gandhi's IAC, they will get fame. So all fame-hungry junior activists will run to IAC. And many activists are protesting for their 100% personal cause (eg parents protesting against increase in school fees). They too will rightly or wrongly feel that joining Arvind Gandhi will give them more leverage and they too will run to join Arvind Gandhi.

And as momentum grows, many selfless-activists will also end up joining arvind-party. This is something we need to reduce.

As long as publicity-hungry-activists and selfish-activists join Arvind-party, the damage is zero. But if selfless activists join arvind-gandhi, then damage will be huge. Arvind gandhi wants to waste away time of activists in naare-baazi, filling RTI-applications rather than promote any pro-common law-drafts. How can we stop that?

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Solution :

Now can we convince selfless activists that arvind-party is fraud?

We should

(a)challenge arvind-party-leaders from top to bottom on paid-media problem and its solution namely Right to recall Doordarshan CEO.

(b) we should promote solutions to Bangladeshi problem and its solution. Arvind-party heavily depends on paid-media and will not dare to touch Bangladeshi problem and its solution.

(c)we can ask arvind-party-leaders to give RTR-MP-drafts, RTR-MLA-drafts and RTR-Lokpal-drafts.

(d)we can ask arvind-party-leaders to give drafts to reduce corruption/nepotism in Lokpals, Supreme Court judges etc

(e)explain link between paid-media and Duratma Gandhi, and how the same method is being used by MNC-owners and Congress.

All these methods will appeal to selfless activists and will convince that Arvind Gandhi is indeed a time-wasters, and thus reduce the flow of selfless activists towards arvind-party, and thus reduce the damage.

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