NAYA DAUR PARTY launched in the Capital

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Group of professionals form Naya Daur to usher in good governanceNew Delhi Thursday, Jun 19 2008 IST Even as the Congress and the Bhartiya Janta Party get ready to battle it out for the set of power in the Delhi Assembly, elections for which are scheduled later this year, a group of professionals today came together to form a new party with an endeavour to bring change in the prevailing system.
A group of 18600 professionals, including doctors, journalists, engineers, lawyers, Teachers and retired Army personnel today came together to form the Naya Daur party, which aims to fight the coming Assembly polls on the core issues of good governence, health and education.
Addressing a press conference here, the founder of Naya Daur Lokesh Paliwal said the party has given a call to people to join it in large numbers with the foremost aim of establishing a fair and equitable system in the State.
In order to bring about transparency in its working in the runup to the Assembly polls, the party will elect a council of members which will choose common people to contest the election.
The party's endeavour would be to ensure that more and more people vote in the elections.
Speaking at the press conference one of the senior members of the party, Wing Commander Bakshi said,''a change is required in the system for which one has to go inside the system and change it. This is the exact reason why this party has been formed.'' Mr Paliwal said it was the party's endeavour to rope in as many people as possible in the runup to the polls. ''Till now, we have managed to garner support from over 2 lakh people in Delhi alone,''Paliwal said.
He said contesting the Delhi Assembly polls was the first step in its endeavour to bring about change.
''Since Delhi has predominance of middle class people, we are starting our campaign from Delhi. Also, Delhi being the heart of India, whoever wins Delhi has the pulse of India,''Paliwal said.
He said the party planned to contest all the 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly.
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A group of professionals on Thursday floated a new political outfit "Naya Daur" with a pledge to overhaul the present political scenario in favour of inclusive growth and development of society.
The new party, which aims to make a mark in the coming assembly election in Delhi, is a conglomeration of more than 18,000 professional including doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, retired army personnel and jounalists.
"We are going to contest on 70 seats in the upcoming assembly election in Delhi, for which 272 ward committees have already been formed," Sanjeev Chibbal, party president said announcing the launch of the outfit.
Terming the new party, a beginning for change in political scenario, he claimed the formation of the party was necessitated because of the void of new ideas in the present system and the increasing frustration in the new generation resulting in their political apathy.
"We are the better informed of the problems of the common man and more capable of solving any problem than the present-day politicians people," Chibbal, a doctor by profession said justifying their involvement in the outfit.
"When people lose faith in the present system them there is two possibility, either they revolt or they start on their own. We have chosen the second path," said party vice-president, Prafful Bakshi who retired as Wing Commander from the Air Force.

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New political party launched in the Capital
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Comprises professionals like doctors, engineers, teachers
“Naya Daur Party” would aim at creating awareness among the middle class
“We will be fielding candidates in all the constituencies in the Delhi Assembly polls”
NEW DELHI: Besides the well known political parties, the electorate in the Capital would have a new option in the forthcoming Delhi Assembly polls following the birth of a new party here on Thursday.
Comprising largely of professionals like doctors, engineers, journalists, lawyers and teachers, the newborn “Naya Daur Party” would aim at creating awareness among the middle class to utilise their voting rights and choose the “real” representatives of the people.
Addressing media persons at the inaugural conference here, the party’s founder, Dr. Lokesh Paliwal, a senior skin specialist, said the groundwork had been going on for the past two years. Beginning with 18,600 members then, the party now has two lakh members.
“We will be fielding candidates in all the constituencies in the Delhi Assembly polls. Our candidates will be decided in the coming few weeks,” said joint secretary prahlad aggarwal
The party, he added, would ask the people to choose their candidate. “We are adopting the American model at the constituency level and those intending to represent the constituency as MLA will first have to win an election among the contenders,” he said. The party also aims to contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 from Delhi, National Capital Region and other areas where independents have had a good run.
To mobilise voter interest, the party has already launched a campaign to make the voters aware of their rights. Naya Daur Party president Sanjeev Chhibber, a senior cancer surgeon, said the events over the past couple of decades clearly indicated that the middle class had been by-passed by the politicians and it would have to take the blame for stepping back from politics.
“In the wake of the high levels of corruption and lack of even basic infrastructure, there were only two options left for people who think like us. Either we take arms to fight for setting things right or we join politics. But the former will mean harming our own countrymen and, therefore, we chose the latter,” said Dr. Chhibber.
Spelling out his party’s agenda, Dr. Chhibber said the party would fight for education and employment for all, ensuring that every Indian voter uses his rights, discouraging caste and religion-based politics, ensuring health care to the most common people and police reforms, besides others.
Dr. Chhibber said he was aware that there was a credibility gap. He informed that the members of the party had been instrumental in starting a charity hospital at Rohini while another hospital was coming up in Jor Bagh.