OFFSTUMPED is taking a break from its self imposed hiatus from the blogosphere to highlight a significant initiative for the Center Right movement to differentiate itself from the psuedo-progressive Left of Center agenda of the Congress.
The ABIDe initiative in Bangalore under the leadership of long time South Bangalore MP and former Minister Anantha Kumar and entrepreneur and fellow twitterer Rajeev Chandrashekhar must be supported, highlighted and enhanced by all those sympathetic to the Center Right cause.
The psuedo-progressive approach of the Congress Party to force down from Delhi one-size-fit all solutions from education to development offers the BJP its best opportunity to differentiate itself as a Center Right party.
The joint initiative by Anantha Kumar and Rajeev Chandrashekhar is daunting as this report from the first public consultation reveals, but it cannot be allowed to fail.
It is surprising that for a City that is home to perhaps the highest concentration of Technology savy residents, there has been barely any discussion on ABIDe’s agenda on its website.
Offstumped urges its readers, community members and twitter followers many of who are from Bangalore , to take this debate further on with greater engagement.
- ABIDE Task Force Agenda
- Plan Bengaluru 2020
- Secure Bengalauru
- Govern Bengaluru
- Urban Poor
- Roads, Traffic Management, Transportation
- Namma Bengaluru Action Plan
- ABIDE Heritage Plan
The new Big Tent will not be a reality till the vision of Shveta Chhatra in heralding Freedom to Local Communities in governance is pursued with a missionary zeal.
By differentiating itself on Urban Local Governance the BJP could script its come back with the cosmopolitan Urban voter who has been disenchanted with it over the last two elections. Bangalore rightly reposed its faith in the BJP and the BJP would do well to follow through with this initiative till it transforms everyday urban life in Bangalore to become a showcase for Delhi, Mumbai and other major cities, towns.
Offstumped wishes Mr. Anantha Kumar and Mr. Rajeev Chandrashekhar all the very best on what will likely be a herculean task.
NOTE: Twitter compilations and guest posts from Offstumped Community will continue to appear as Offstumped continues with its break from active blogging.
More from Offstumped archives on Local Governance.
Filed under: ABIDE Bangalore, DesiPundit, Local Governance, Offstumped, Shveta Chhatra, Uncategorized
Yoss:
As they say, “once a blogger, always a blogger”
It’s nice to see you making such exceptions to write a blog. Hope you make more of these exceptions!!
I had been meaning to post more information about the ABIDe initiative on JitebaBharat.com myself. Your post reminded me to do so & have done so.
http://jitegabharat.com/showthread.php?p=1004#post1004
By the way, JitegaBharat.com just crossed 1000 postings in a matter of 6 weeks after going live, thanks to user participation as well as RSS feeds from several prominent journalists and important websites related to India.
With the best wishes from its readers, JitegaBharat.com aspires to become THE Forums & Blogs site to help define the Winning Ways of 21st Century India.
Yoss,
You say
“BJP can write itself off for the foreseeable future as natural alternative for governance if it wants to rationalize Unconstitutional Acts ”
Imagine if they had said that they were apologetic then they would have been potrayed as hypocrictical. The situation is such that “Heads cong win, Tails BJP loose”. Only thing I can think of BJP doing is keep quiet without speaking anything. They cannot do that as being a political party they have to be constantly in the public radar.
Look at Sushma Swaraj statement. Such statements are very common in US political circles (I would say the statements here are more vicious) But in India, it is considered sacrilegious. Rahul is just a face. He even shied away from responsibility of a ministership but he still continues to create big news as if he has achieved something impossible.
(Sorry for posting the comments here Please delete the comment if you think it is inappropriate. Missing the lively offstumped discussion board)
Sudhir – pls keep the comments coming absolutely. My hiatus from blogging is no reason to not have a lively discussion here in the comments section.
Sudhir – On your comment itself, I had tweeted on this earlier I think they shud have merely reiterated their commitment to the process of justice and shut up.