Dear Friends, (please read this mail
with sincerity)
Dear Dr. Ravi Kant Pathak Ji, being
constructive to BM as honest well-wisher I want to write this mail, I am writing
mail on BM issues after a long time. I am always a very open minded towards
Social Solution. I was never destructive to BM, but I opposed your internal ego
of understanding. You read books a lot, I also did and still I do it. But today
I am not going to discuss it. Now I have met you, I have listen your speeches, I
have attended a meet led by you, you were active in national meet and I was
non-active, I was just an observer.
If you do not mind, I want to say some
hard things just for improvements. I am going to talk on last one year. I think,
I am silent observer in BM for about last one year. I hope, you agree with
me.
Dear Amritesh Ji, you can also respond
this mail. If your mail will not be very scientific philosophical heavy
bookish words, I will not delete without reading that.
Now, from here this mail is a GENERAL
mail, I mean I am talking to persons of BM (as I can send this mail by using my
personal contact list for BM organization) including. But very first I want to
say that my intuitions are pure for your health and improvements. Please do not
react in any bad manner to me after this mail. I hope honest BM members will
keep my request.
Thanks to Brothers Krishanu, Aman and
others who motivated me to write this mail for BM.
I do not know that why Delhi BM Members
decided to start a new unmoderated group called as General Body, I am not going
to initiate any discussion on the reasons. Under any reason, they initiated a
good thing. I want to appreciate them. Actually BM lacks with real understanding
and social-maturity, including BM Delhi members.
Because it will be easy to me to have a
talk by addressing a person (it will not be a speech, it will be a personal talk
thus I will feel easiness to express myself), I would like to write my mail by
addressing my brother Ravi Kant Pathak (he is general secretary also, in my view
he did a blunder mistake, if he will be honest above than his individual things,
he will also feel it).
Dear Brother Ravi Kant,
after meeting you, and by observing
your some actions and decisions, I got you that may be you have ZEAL to work
something but you do not understand GANDHI properly, you are not mature and you
do not understand Indian society with your own natural and fundamental
understandings. and this is true for other BM members also. Still I do not know
that, why you took oath in English, I am not in favour of Hindi, but because in
India, majority of common people understand Hindi and use Hindi thus Hindi
should be used as First Language. I will welcome regional languages as Kannada,
Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu, Punjabi etc, but if these are being
used without reaction to Hindi. In India more than 70 percent people understand
Hindi. May be Hindi can not be understood by about 30 percent of our population,
but English can not be understood by more than 95 percent of our population in
India. BM meetings are not DJ Dance programmes and thus BM meetings do not
require any VJ. BM thinks that by Cheap Popularity Activities, it can get big
primary space in masses and then in second step Cheap Things can be converted in
Non-Cheap things. But it will not possible.
I could not understand why BM needs
Shiv Khera. Few years ago I studied his one book JEET APKI, I got he is just a
marketer. What is his status in Indian Masses? Nothing. What has been he working
for masses? I do not know, why I was raped crucially in BM meet by
attending Shiv Khera session? In my view, it was just Cheap Stunt for Cheap
Popularity in Metro Cities youths. May be because BM does not have
trust in real ground works thus it can give respect to persons as like Shiv
Khera.
Our society needs most sincere and
dedicated efforts for real social solution. Freedom struggle for Independence
was different thing than constructive struggle for social solution. Freedom
Struggle was against British Rule, Britishers was outsiders. But now we are with
our own family, we are not struggling with outsiders. We should understand this
with depth. We can not remove our brothers/ sisters from us even they are wrong
or exploiting whole country, but we could threw out British. Our society needs a
Constructive Approach for Social Solution by having Total Accountability
towards last society (more than 60 percent of our
population).
Because BM and its members have no real
understanding and do not have deep commitment for social solution thus
in last two years BM was moved backward not forward. BM is making same mistakes,
what our Eminent National Leaders did just after independence. BM is just
following same path as our leaders did after independence because BM has not
practical understanding or experiences. BM members are bookish and
of-course they are not very committed to understand or study lots of
valuable books also, thus I do not know, in which status I should put BM members
in the matter of understanding. BM members always speak to me that slowly-slowly
they will become mature in real understanding, but I can bet that they will
not get real ground understanding or they will not be natural thinkers.
Why?- because they are moving to become common people. Every member is member of
BM, they are putting their legs first time towards society as member of BM.
Then from where and how they will get experiences and understanding of real
ground as a very Common Member of Common Society?
Because they are not coming from social
ground then their first commitment will be with BM not with society (please
think this with depth). Our leaders established SANVIDHAN SABHA to
make Constitution and BM made its
Constitution Council in same pattern. Our national leaders did blunder mistakes
that they did not initiated Open Mass Discussion with larger mass of our
country. They made Constitution by copying many other Constitutions.
Same BM made its Constitution by bookish and virtual understandings. Any
Constitution for social mass should be generated by larger masses slowly-slowly.
Constitution should not have been made by Representatives, it should have
been made directly by Larger Masses of Society. But it is rare
to become above than Political Power Enjoy by the humans. If anywhere any
centralized power system is going on this means that persons are pretending
to be honest but in reality they are not honest. Still I do not know, from
where in BM, Chapter and National Council type non-social
cultures were initiated. I studied BM constitution first time in Gwalior
Meet in hard copy, it was a mixture of many things. May be it is natural or
new to those members who never did self-study but I studied multi thousands
of books in my life in various social, mass issues. How a Constitution for
mass can be made without real ground social understanding and experiences, it is
beyond of my limit of thinking? I could not understand why Dr Prahlathan was
representing for Constitution Council, even he can not understand the
language of larger mass? Constitution for mass or society can not be
made by having university degrees of Doctorates/ Post-Doctorates on
Constitutions or on Parliamentary Affairs etc.
I saw various presentations of various
chapters of BM, I can not understand that out of Cheap Popularity, what can
be achieved by Pulse Polio, Petrol Savings, Street Cleanings, So-called shows of
Tree Plantations etc, please do not mind but these all works just Picnic works
not more than this. Now BM is some years old and it is moving backward not
moving forward.
I can not understand why BM needs any
level of council? Why BM is interested to create various centralized Power
Centers? Because BM's Constitution Council had no practical social ground
experiences thus they made Council Systems by manipulating
old Communist System for Party. They followed the things of few decades
ago, they could not modify it in favour of common society because they have no
real ground understandings and they do not trust that common people, common
society have most maturity of life and most real understandings of social
solutions.
I get lots of farsighted visionlessness
in BM constitution council and also in BM. I think, BM does not understand the
real meaning of Representation. Because larger mass can not sit together in
various issues together daily thus they choose their representatives. But when
larger mass is sitting then there no any meaning of Representation. But in BM,
larger mass is not supreme authority, various levels councils are supreme
authority (by this point, any serious person can understand
the understanding level of members of BM Constitution Council). BM lacks
flexibility in its own structure. BM lacks real coordination with real ground
forces of larger masses.
Ravi Kant came India for few months and
he became General Secretary of BM, still I do not know under which Social,
Individual or Moral Values and honesty, he did this (he is talking a lot on
various Values). He wears DHOTI as like Gandhi but he speaks English in
front of mass, I do not know but he wants to become Gandhi by wearing
prescribed cloths or by starting some rough works in any village without any
long term accountability or commitment.
Still after few years, in BM national
meet there was no common youth of common society. I do not know what BM
wants to represent. I think BM should restart from ZERO state towards last
society. Otherwise, it will be as like other common political parties by having
highly philosophical values in papers, documents out of ground reality. Or, it
will be a common NGO, who will work for Pulse Polio, Street Cleanings, Petrol
Savings, Organic Farming etc.
I was surprised in BM Gwalior Meet by
seeing the too much mechanical systems in BM under various paper definitions of
membership, supporter ship etc. I think, membership or supporter ship etc should
be depend on Commitment towards society because BM can not be bigger than
society. To attend Chapter's Meetings, to give some Rs to Chapters can not be
grounds of membership only because it was defined by a very small body as
Constitution Council. It is ridiculous and insult of socially dedicated persons.
Think about it.
Ravi Kant Bhai, if you think that you
need some serious non-formal discussions with me, I invite you to live with me
for one or two weeks. But if you want to come before your departure to your
country USA, please come without any internal ego, without heavy
philosophical words, come with easy way. I think, we should have
some mutual understanding for our last society.
By having various chapters, BM can
not become national organization.
I HAVE FEVER, I WILL BE CONTINUED IF IT
WILL BE FRUITFUL.
love
Vivek
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