The Forth MRCM-Recall demand , promise – Prompt recall of PM , CMs
Introduction
Every party makes promises and so do we. But what if the CM, PM of that party refuses to keep promise from day one? The MRCM Party promises to bring a Govt Order on the day one, by which citizens can replace the PM, CMswithoutwaiting for 5 long years. This replacement procedure is our fifth demand and promise
Garaj sari ke veri
[This section 9.2 is written solely by second author Mr. Rahul Mehta . And the first author Mr. Chimanbhai Mehta does not agree with tone of this section]
I hate poets and poems. I never wanted to write any poem. Nevertheless, I have written only two poems each of 4 lines only so far in my life. Both are on nature of politics. One of them is
Rajkaran no guru mantra, garaj sari ke veri
Rajkaran no ek j mantra , garaj sari ke veri
The poem is in Gujarati and means
Politics has a fundamental principle -- my need for you has passed, and so now I am your enemy Politics has only one principle -- my need for you has passed, and so now I am your enemy Consider the mighty slogan of “Jai Jawan Jai Kisan” of late 1960s. Where is that slogan now? This ‘Jai Jawan , Jai Kisan’ is replaced by ‘rising India’, ‘shining India’, ‘feel good factor’, ‘incredible India’, ‘8% growth rate’ ,’10% growth rate’ etc. The soldier makes pittance and farmer starves to suicide. How peacefully have intellectuals of India sidelined this slogan of later 1960s - ‘Jai Jawan , Jai Kisan’ !! That what is politics --- garaj sari ke veri. And consider the freedom fighters. My father was one, and I know 10s of his colleagues who had gone into prison during 1940s. Most of them were appalled to see intellectuals opposing Rs 2000/mo pensions freedom fighters were getting, and regretted participating in freedom movement and ruining their careers. “garaj sari ke veri” is more true than it sounds.
So why should a PM , CM bother us commons for 5 years? Who knows what may happen in next 4.5 years? Which is why I always believed, since I was 6 years old, that procedure to expel/replace is MUST and should not be a negotiable chip.
My other poem is
Pothaa padh jag mooaa , pandit bhayaa no koi,
Dhai akshar drhiNaa kaa, padhe so pandit hoi
The poem in Hindi and means
People died reading books and books, none became knowledgeable
Two and half letter word Hatred, he who understands (pros and cons of Hatred) is knowledgeable
The Forth MRCM demand and promise at National Level
The forth Govt Order we demand , promise at National level is to create procedure using which we commons can replace PM without waiting for 5 years
1. Any citizen who wishes to become PM can inward his name before Cabinet Secretary.
2. Any citizen of India can walk to Talati's office, pay Rs 3 fee, approve at most five persons for PM position. The Talati will give him receipt with his voter-id, date/time, the persons he approved etc.
3. The Talati will put citizen's preferences on Govt website with his voter-ID. 4. A citizen can change his approvals any day for Rs 3 fee
5. On every 1st of the month, the Secretary will publish the approval counts of each candidate 6. The Approval count of the PM will be counted as higher of the following two
- number of citizens who have approved him
- sum of votes obtained by the MPs who have supported the PM
7. If any person has 2% more approvals than existing PM, then the existing PM shall resign and person with highest Approvals shall become PM.
Some explanation about procedure to replace PM, CMs
The replacement as per our procedure shall happen if and when say 2% of all voters i.e.2% of about 75 crores voters i.e. 1.5 crores voters more than existing approval count existing PM has approve a new person. To give an example, the PM of 2004 had support of about 300 MPs whose votes add up to about 18 crores. So as per the proposed procedure, if and when over 19.5 crores citizens approve another person, the next person shall become new PM.
The Forth MRCM demand , promise at State Level
The fifth Govt Order we demand , promise at State level is to create procedure using which we commons can replace CM without waiting for 5 years
1. Any citizen who wishes to become CM can inward his name before Cabinet Secretary.
2. Any citizen of India can walk to Talati's office, pay Rs 3 fee, approve at most five persons for the CM position. The Talati will give him receipt with his voter-id, date/time, persons he approved etc.
3. The Talati will put citizen's preferences on Govt website with his voter-ID.
4. A citizen can change his approvals any day for Rs 3 fee
5. On every 1st of the month, the Secretary will publish approval counts of candidates
6. The Approval count of the existing CM will be counted as higher of the following two
- number of citizens who have approved him
- sum of votes obtained by the MLAs who have supported the CM
7. If any person has 2% more approvals than existing CM, then the existing CM shall resign and person with highest Approvals shall become CM.
Will PMs, CM get replaced every week? NO
In most companies, employers have power to fire employees and that does not mean that employers fire employees every day. Worse, most employers look for stable employees and resort to expulsion only when they make some terrible deliberate damage. The citizens will use this procedure not to expel a CM they dislike and not even to expel a CM who had made mistakes. They will use it only when they think that CM, PM is outrightly corrupt and anti-citizen. It takes intense hatred to think of expulsion and such hatred will come only from blatant back-stabbing, not some minor errors.
US has procedure of expulsion for Governors in about 20 states. Those states must have seen about 20*100/4 = about 500 Governors in past 100 years. How many faced recall polls? Only three. And how many Governors actually got expelled? Only one. So the mechanism has not created any instability. But has acted as a latent threat on all Governors of US which is one important reasons why they have been less corrupt than CMs of India.
Draft of forth MRCM demand at National Level
Govt Order : Registering citizens Approvals for PM candidates
Procedure for Procedure / instruction
1 - The word citizen would mean a registered voter
This GO will become operational only after over 50% of citizens of India register YES on it.
2 Cabinet Secretary
If any citizen of India above 25 years of age wishes to become PM, he can appear before Cabinet Secretary who would issue him a serial number after taking filing fee same as deposit amount for MP election.
3 Talati , (or Talati’s Clerks)
If a citizen of that district comes in person to Talati’s office, pays Rs 3 fee , and approves at most five persons for the PM position, the Talati would enter his
approvals in the computer and would him a receipt with his voter-id#, date/time and the persons he approved. The fee shall be Rs 1 for those with BPL card. If a the citizen comes to cancel his Approvals, the Talati will cancel one of more of his approvals without any fee.
4 Talati
The Talati will put the preferences of the citizen on district’s website with citizen’s voter-ID number and his preferences.
5 Cabinet Secretary
On every Monday, the CS will publish Approval counts for each candidate. Govt Ordinance : Replacement of PM
Procedure for Procedure / instruction
1 - The word citizen would mean a registered voter 2 PM
The first PM shall count his approval count as higher of the following two
- number of citizens who have approved him
- sum of votes obtained by Loksabha MPs who have supported him 3 PM If a candidate gets approval 2% above the Approvals existing PM has, then existing CM will resign and ask MLAs to appoint approved person as new PM.
4 Loksabha MPs
The MPs may elect the person stated in clause-3 as new PM. 5 PM For the next PMs who have become PM via clause-3, the Approval count will be only the number of citizens who have approved him. Draft of forth MRCM demand at State Level Govt Order : Registering citizens Approvals for CM candidates
Procedure for Procedure / instruction
1 - The word citizen would mean a registered voter
2 Cabinet Secretary
If any citizen of India above 25 years of age wishes to become CM, he can appear before Cabinet Secretary and CS would issue him a serial number after taking filing fee same as deposit amount for MLA election.
3 Talati , (or Talati’s Clerks)
If a citizen of that district comes in person to Talati’s office, pays Rs 5 fee , and approves at most five persons for the CM position, the Talati would enter his
approvals in the computer and would him a receipt with his voter-id#, date/time and the persons he approved. If a the citizen comes to cancel his Approvals, the Talati will cancel one of more of his approvals without any fee.
4 Talati
The Talati will put the preferences of the citizen on district’s website with citizen’s
voter-ID number and his preferences.
5 Cabinet Secretary
On every Monday, the Cabinet Secretary will publish Approval counts for each candidate.
Govt Ordinance : Replacement of CM
Procedure for Procedure / instruction
1 - The word citizen would mean a registered voter
2 CM
The first CM shall count his approval count as higher of the following two
• number of citizens who have approved him
• sum of votes obtained by the MLAs who have supported him
3 CM
If a candidate gets approval 2% (of ALL registered voters) above the approval count the existing CM has, then existing CM will resign and request MLAs to appoint the person approved by the citizens as new CM.
4 MLAs The MLAs may elect the person stated in clause-3 as new CM.
5 CM
For the next CMs who have become CM via clause-3 and clause-4, the Approval
count will be only the number of citizens who have approved him.
Remarks
One may ask – what if MLAs and MPs do not follow the clause-3 of the Ordinance? Well, if a huge % all voters have approved a person via explicit registration, politically as well as literally, it would be end of MLAs’ and MPs’ physical lives if they refuse to appoint him as CM or PM. We would like to confine discussions within politically realistic scenarios, and MPs and MLAs overruling explicit proven written political demand of over such huge % of voters is unrealistic situation.
To those who oppose this procedure
We request them to send us draft of the procedures by which citizens can replace PM, CMs if they think their drafts are better than ours. If that is the case, we shall cancel our drafts and accept theirs. But if one is hostile to us commons demands that we commons want procedure to replace PM, and if one believes that we commons should no procedures to replace PM, we request him not to waste his time and our time in communicating to us.
The effect of forth change and replacement procedures.
The forth proposed change gives enormous power to citizens over CMs and PM. Till now, we have CMs , PM with mass base but no mass pressure. The procedure to replace CMs, PM creates a mass pressure on the CMs, PM. As of now most CMs, PM know that they cant be expelled for 5 years and
take the citizens for ride. But with this procedure, he may or may not get replaced, but the threat of replacement will ensure that behaves better than CMs, PM of today. To enact this procedures, the citizens need not us MRCM party candidates as MPs and MLAs. they can force existing PM and CMs to enact the first two MRCM Demands. Then using the second Govt Order, we intend to enact the Fifth Govt Order.
The MRCM party has proposed similar procedure by which citizens will be able to replace following officials
1. RBI Governor
2. Chief District Judge, High Court Chief Judge, Supreme Court Chief Judge
3. Four Senior District Judges, High Court Judges, Supreme Court Judges
4. Chief District Prosecutors, Chief State Prosecutor, Chief National Prosecutor
5. District Education Officer
6. District Supply Officer
7. District Police Chief, where in citizens’ preferences remain confidential.
And so forth. The drafts of the GOs are at http://www.rahulmehta.com/replacement.htm
All in all, MRCM Party demands, promises replacement procedures for about 20 positions at National level, some 20 positions at State level and some 10 positions at District levels. Will these replacement procedures reduce corruption etc?
Will these replacement procedures reduce corruption? How?
One question I often face is --- existing officers are corrupt and so shall be the new replacements.
How will replacements reduce corruption, nepotism etc? I shall enumerate the process using examples of
District Education Officer.
Consider the position of District Education Officer in-charge of schools in District. MRCM has demanded , promised. Why would a replaced one better? First, the threat of prompt replacement alone would force him to reduce corruption. But that does not do much. At the end, we want a DEO who is NOT interested in corruption, not someone who is reducing corruption because of threat of replacement. Now there are about 700 DEOs in India. All 700 are highly intelligent, capable and efficient. And out of them about 7-14 are not interested in corruption. That asset is what we already have. Now my replacement procedures has a clause --- that if an officer is appointed as DEO by CM, he can be DEO of only one district. But if citizens have made him DEO, he can be DEO of up to 10 districts in State and up to 50 districts in India. In addition, he would get salaries of all those districts. (And a later modification makes this feature of “horizontal promotion” or “horizontal expansion” more radical --- the salary will Nlog2(N) times where N is number of Districts he obtains via Citizens’ Approvals. Further, a person will be entitled to hold several positions across departments i.e. he may be District Education Office of 10 districts and also become District Health Officer of 10 districts with some limits (such as he cant be District Prosecutor, District Police Chief and DEO at the same time). In addition, there is provision for vertical rise i.e. if he serves as District Prosecutors of several Districts, his chances of becoming State Prosecutors of one and more States increases.
So out of 700 DEOs, say 7-14 non-corrupt will see opportunity to do well as well as expand horizontally as well as vertically. The existing Govt procedures have a flaw that salary etc of an honest person does not double if he does twice the work, a phenomenon common in business. This de-motivates honest people from joining Govt. The feature of horizontal promotions, via Citizens’ YESes, reduces this reason to de-motivate. So out of 7-14 honest DEOs, many would be able to expand their roles as well as their salaries. This will encourage more honest people to join administration and would discourage bribeseekers and youth with “get rich quick” and “hell with citizens” mentality from joining administration. So within few years, citizens using replacement procedures will be able to flush out dishonest people from all these positions in IAS, IPS, judocracy, prosecution etc will get flushed out and replace them with honest as well as better paid ones.
Review questions
1. Say there are 7cr registered voters in a State. Say CM has support of 200 MLAs who had obtained say 2 cr votes.
Say CM has approval of 1.5 cr citizens. Then how many Approvals would a person need to displace CM?
2. Say there are 7cr registered voters in a State. Say CM has support of 200 MLAs who had obtained say 2 cr votes.
Say CM has approval of 2.2 cr citizens. Then how many Approvals would a person need to displace CM?
3. How many persons can a citizens Approve, as per the GO MRCM Party demands?
4. Say 3cr citizens file approvals. Then say 50 lakh cancel their approvals. What is the total fees collected?
5. What is the filing fee to for CM position?
Exercises
1. Please obtain drafts of CM replacement procedures Shourie or other BJP MPs submitted in the Parliament.
2. Please obtain drafts of CM replacement procedures Yechuri or other CPM MPs submitted in the Parliament.
3. Please obtain drafts of CM replacement procedures MMS or other Congress MPs submitted in the Parliament.
4. Do you agree with above drafts?
5. Do you agree with recall draft Jayaprakash Narayan had submitted in Parliament to create recall procedure he
had promised in the election? who know, and meet/call and find out why they oppose the First MRCM demand.
6. Explain why you think intellectuals of India oppose drafts to recall CMs, PM?
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