NEW DELHI: Taking on the rampant money
and muscle power in politics, a new
political party, Nav Bharat Democratic
Party, was launched on Thursday,
promising clean candidates and transparent
democracy. The party helmed by a motley
group of professions, including a retired
naval officer, entrepreneurs, lawyers and
others, promised to provide an accountable
government.
The party will field candidates, including
working professionals, entrepreneurs and
veteran politicians, weaned away from their
parent parties. They plan to contest from
about 10 states in the 2014 general
elections.
Speaking about the initiative party
president RK Misra — who won TOI's LEAD
India campaign meant to recognize young
generation leaders — said there was
widespread frustration among people over
issues of corruption and poor governance .
Comparing India's slow development to
China, Misra who is an IIT-Kanpur
alumnus and has extensive experience
working in youth mobilization and
grassroots activism, said that the country
had brought half a billion of its population
out of poverty in the last three decades with
10% growth while India had failed to keep
the momentum of 9% growth.
The party, who also includes Vice Admiral
SCS Bangara (retired) and political thinker
Shekhar Tiwari, plans to field "credible and
winnable candidates" in strategically
selected constituencies representing 50-100
Lok Sabha seats spread across Uttar
Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand ,
Odisha, Bihar , Maharashtra, Goa,
Karnataka and Kerala. Misra said the party
was focusing on parliamentary seats so that
they could influence government policy
effectively.
Key focus areas for the party are youth
engagement, women empowerment and
strong national identity. "We need to speak
the language of the youth," he said, adding
that 70% of India's youth population was
under-employed or unemployed. Stressing
the need to generate employment Misra said
that major parties were only interested in
handing out doles whether through
employment allowance or reservations in
jobs.
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