| 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 Dr. Paliwal.
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.
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/06/20/stories/2008062054270400.htm
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