posted by Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta Rrg

The campaign methods must have features which adds more activists , not just adds citizen-supporters. And adding activists is a hard part because no activist would like to decrease hours he wants to give to his own cause. . To elaborate, if there are 1000 activists working for some law-drafts using methods that is increasing number of citizen-supporters , but not adding new activists , then information on law-drafts will NOT reach 45 crore voters , and so the law-drafts may not come. . === . Dear recallists , . We are all campaigning for one or more law-drafts such as TCP-draft , RTR-drafts over several posts such PM \ CM \ MP \ judges \ PoliceChief etc , MRCM-draft , JurySys-draft, wealth tax draft etc etc. . Now all activists may not want to work on all law-drafts. Most activists would like to work ONLY on the law-drafts that reduce the problems close to their heart. . Lets label activist-X as activist who is working for law-draft-X. One activist may be working on many law-drafts. . The campaign-method-X for law-draft-X means set of steps activist for draft-X are taking to ensure that over 45 crore voters do send orders to MPs via SMS with url to law-draft-X . . The steps AFTER 45 crore voters have sent SMS with url-X are AMUS-steps aka Ahimsamurti Mahatma Udham Singh steps , which are NOT part of campaign steps. And I will not talk about them in this post. . So campaign method will include steps needed to ensure that 60 crore to 85 crore voters do come to know about the proposed law-draft. . Now only two known ways to spread information amongst crores of citizens are --- paidmedia and activists. The activists will use their money to print pamphlets , give newspaper advt etc etc. . Since we do not have support for paidmedia, only way we can spread information is via activists. . So campaign steps will also include steps taken by activist-X to increase number of activists working for law-draft-X. . If number of activists dont increase and remains constant to 1000 or whatever, then they will never be able to reach to 60 crore to 80 crore voters. Because each activist has limited strength. . The campaign methods must have features which adds more activists , not just adds citizen-supporters. And adding activists is a hard part because no activist would like to decrease hours he wants to give to his own cause. . To elaborate, if there are 1000 activists working for some law-drafts using methods that is increasing number of citizen-supporters , but not adding new activists , then information on law-drafts will NOT reach 45 crore voters , and so the law-drafts may not come. . === . Dear recallists , . We are all campaigning for one or more law-drafts such as TCP-draft , RTR-drafts over several posts such PM \ CM \ MP \ judges \ PoliceChief etc , MRCM-draft , JurySys-draft, wealth tax draft etc etc. . Now all activists may not want to work on all law-drafts. Most activists would like to work ONLY on the law-drafts that reduce the problems close to their heart. . Lets label activist-X as activist who is working for law-draft-X. One activist may be working on many law-drafts. . The campaign-method-X for law-draft-X means set of steps activist for draft-X are taking to ensure that over 45 crore voters do send orders to MPs via SMS with url to law-draft-X . . The steps AFTER 45 crore voters have sent SMS with url-X are AMUS-steps aka Ahimsamurti Mahatma Udham Singh steps , which are NOT part of campaign steps. And I will not talk about them in this post. . So campaign method will include steps needed to ensure that 60 crore to 85 crore voters do come to know about the proposed law-draft. . Now only two known ways to spread information amongst crores of citizens are --- paidmedia and activists. The activists will use their money to print pamphlets , give newspaper advt etc etc. . Since we do not have support for paidmedia, only way we can spread information is via activists. . So campaign steps will also include steps taken by activist-X to increase number of activists working for law-draft-X. . If number of activists dont increase and remains constant to 1000 or whatever, then they will never be able to reach to 60 crore to 80 crore voters. Because each activist has limited strength. . SO WHATEVER CAMPAIGN METHODS YOU HAVE TAKEN, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOUR METHODS ARE ADDING ACTIVISTS , NOT JUST SUPPORTERS . Now here is the main problem that most activists are already committed to one ore more cause. An activist may work on law-drafts that address his cause, but not on law-drafts that address other causes !! And "converting" activist i.e. asking him to give even one hour a week to other causes is next to impossible. . This is the central problem in true-activism ---- that an activist working for law-draft-X would NOT give even one hour to a law-draft for cause Y. In such case , how can 20 lakh activists be convinced to work on any law-draft-X? . So summarizing . 1. To inform 60 crore voters about a law-draft-X , some 2 lakh to 20 lakh activists would be needed to work on law-draft-X . 2. The campaign methods activists-X must have features that will not only get followers but also get more activists. . 3. It isnt easy to get activists for a cause, because almost all activists are already working on some cause, and an activist working on one cause will not be willing to work on other cause. . I will later write my views on how (3) can be overcome.

by Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta Rrg



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