Vote for Mr. Vikram Bokey, IPS (retd) at PUNE

Vote for INDIA
April 14 2009
PPI announces support to former IPS officer in Pune

PPI is proud to extend full external support to Mr. Vikram Bokey, IPS (retd) in the elections for the Pune Lok Sabha consituency.

Mr. Bokey had a distinguished career with the Indian Police Service (IPS), with a highly successful track record. In a career spanning 20 years, he was responsible for maintaining law and order and preserving peace at various locations. He took stern action against anti-social and criminal elements during various postings, and was especially harsh on bootlegging and gambling. He was in charge of the highly acclaimed "Delta Force", which protected citizens from criminals on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway. He is the President of the Maharashtra Organic Farming Federation, which takes up activities for farmers' welfare, including suicide prevention schemes in 1680 villages across Maharashtra.

A professional to the core, Mr. Bokey is progressive-minded and result oriented. At 52, he has the right blend of youth and experience required for representing Pune in the Lok Sabha. Having emerged from our system, he has the right knowledge about it to cleanse it of its evils, and has, indeed, quit it of his own volition, to do just that. His professional background and training enable him to adopt a practical, result-oriented approach to problem-solving, as espoused by PPI.

His agenda includes the following:
Ensuring safety and security of all citizens of Pune
Improving infrastructure - e.g., roads and public transportation
Better Water Supply and Management
Improving Power Supply
Boosting industry and creating jobs
Effective and Efficient utilization of all available Parliamentary resources to benefit Pune and its people Overall, striving to ensure a prosperous, peaceful and happy Pune in 6 months!
I appeal to you to support Mr. Bokey whole-heartedly. Please inform all your friends from Pune to vote for the candidate supported by PPI!

Lets Make It Happen!!!!
DVR Rao
General Secretary
Professionals Party Of India
ACT FOR CHANGE! ACT NOW!
www.ppi.net.in

Vote for Professionals

This blog has already announced its support for BJP and listed the simple reasons for the same. But at the same time we are a set of Professionals and Working People from the Public Sectors in India and so we also understand the need to change. And so we have also supported The Professional Party of India. We have also talked of Independent Professional Ms Meera Sanyal whose action is also admirable. As Professionals ourselves we support both.

One question came to our mind as to why Ms Sanyal and Dr. Mona Shah were splitting votes between them when they both are from the same side i.e. Professionals or against the typical Politicians whom we want to replace??

I have come to know that The Professional Party of India announced their candidate Dr Mona Shah much earlier than Ms Sanyal announced her name. So question comes who should have withdrawn?

I will not go by mere logic of being here first and say that since PPI was formed 1.5 yrs ago they deserve their candidature.

Rather I feel that an independent candidate is just a local solution and in the Multi Party Elections in India with its demographic variance it never pays to be an Independent. Only a few independent perhaps have made their marks but that too by aligning with some ruling party after elections. And such independents must have been useful ONLY in Local Issues. Since I do not belong to Mumbai and since I think the need of the hour and tomorrow is to fund and form a National Party which is different, I do not support the logic of independence even if I support the spirit of INDEPENDENCE that Ms Sanyal has.

What we need is more sucf free spirited people coming forward BUT joing HANDS to fight as a SINGLE Front or else all our efforts will go waste. Politics is no joke. The parties- BJP, Congress, BSP and so on and their people have been here for a long time and some since independence and have been at this game since they were at college and not been just Good Students which Dr Mona Shah or Ms Meera Sanyal must have been and Good Students do not do Political Activism in college. So if someone like them suddenly wakes up propelled by some incident that affected their lives it means they are being Politically immature. Elections cannot be short term whim but is a long drawn battle that needs to start with planning long ago.

So a party with a backbone of clean, honest, crime free, liberal, researched, progressive and with a flat & lean structure of professionals steering it, started 18 months ago, is in a position to be far more effective & upscalable to national level than an independant decision based on emotion (26/11) & limited to a single constituency and that too with only local issues in mind.

There is some Political immaturity being displayed on the part of Ms Sanyal it seems to me. We need people like her too and we in this blog Invite all Like minded people to JOIN HANDS - not fight each other.

Professionals Party of India- Elections 2009

Professionals we too are. We may be Oilmen or PSU men but we too are Professionals. We too understand the need to "BE THE CHANGE THAT WE WANT TO SEE" that people Like Meera Sanyal, Independent or Dr Mona Patel Shah and Rajendra Thacker of the Professionals Party of India seek to do.

I have all along being arguing in different forums-inside my own organisation and now outside that unless better people come forward and we are stuck with the same old leaders we cannot hope to get anything better.

So the solution is only twofold. Actually it is only one. Get one solution the other will come automatically:-

1. Get new people -- get them in great numbers- give the Voters a chance to choose better people. Professionals/ selfless/ those who are interested and also know how to work for the country. Not just words but real action
2. The first will either be the solution in itself OR SCARE THE EXISTING ones TO DELIVER or lose their seats.

Simple ONE SOLUTION leading into the second.

As of now this BLOG SUPPORTS BJP and its PM Candidate LK Advani.

But we do not belong to BJP or are Political. We Want the BEST to happen. As of now BJP seems to be that Promise as far as we are concerned (we have argued in suport of our seeming selfishness earlier here) and so are open to "VOTE for INDIA" campaign also and in that line of thought we post the link to the Professionals Party of India web site and ask the readers to connect with them for a long drawn process to CHANGE INDIA.

The link is http://www.ppi.net.in/index.aspx?Id=1

However one doubt remains which I need to ask, why even in this process we find a waste of efforts / splitting of votes between Meera Sanyal, a professional but independent candidate and Dr Mona Shah candidate of this new party? Are we behaving Professionally then? Are we not able to sort out differences here too? Then what is the POINT?

Anyway as I see it there are only two candidates so far in this new Party and they are in Mumbai. Somewhere somebody has to start. They have started. Ok. Fine.. But until we have candidates from all over we have to vote for others at other places. So we will STILL VOTE FOR BJP.