Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate

Rallies are waste of time --- sending DVDs and asking voters to order MPs via SMS is far better

Now moment I write against rallying, banner holding, slogan shouting etc, many may accuse that "see, I never objected against rallies till date, and now when NaMo is making successful rallies, I an writing against rallies". Well , I have been anti-rally since long, and proof - " rahulmehta . com / 301.htm " , remove spaces. This book has been frozen since dec-2012, and you can search on or "rally" and every sentence will prove that I have been anti-rally since long. To give one example,

"The pseudo-recallists also oppose the proposal that activists should send orders to PM via SMS and instead put them on time-wasting activities like slogan shouting, candle burning, rallying etc and thus drain away their energies. The pseudo-recallists like The Anna and Arvind Gandhi aim to take less-informed Recallists to dead end and kill RTR movement. (see section-13.18 for details). Pseudo-recallists are biggest obstacles for us true-Recallists."

"It is necessary that activists directly send orders to PM\CM via SMS etc and not waste their time and energy in slogan shouting, rallying, daily prayers, singing patriotic songs again and again, candle burning , election campaigning to elect demi-Gods etc. The activist leaders such as Sonia Gandhi, Advani, Yechuri, Mayawati, Anna and Arvind Gandhi oppose the proposal activists should directly send orders to PM\CM via SMS. They insist on time and energy wasting activities only. "

So I have been anti-rally since long. Not because of bomb blasts -- for that I only blame the enemy. But because they are waste of activists' energy.

Rallies are colossal waste of activists energy. May be 200 years ago, they were needed as they were ONLY means to prove numerical strength and see\hear a person. But today, with SMS and DVDs, they are not needed at all. To listen to the leader, dispatching DVDs of lectures pre-recorded in studio to crores of voters will be cheaper than asking lakhs of voters to come at at one place. And then those who wish NaMo (or Mr X) to be PM, can order his MP via SMS and send copy to BJP server which can show on net. That will prov numerical strength in more objective way. Take anyleader -- be Anna or ArKe or NaMo or RaGa or NiKu . Even if rally-attendee is not paid to attend rally, then also costs of transport, logistics etc will be at least Rs 100 to Rs 300 per person or may be more. The police expenses are additional. Plus if speech several hours before and after speech is lost. Even one hour is worth Rs 20 per day, then also Instead, if DVD is sold or given free to each person, it would cost only Rs 10 plus Rs 10 for shipping. And one DVD can be watched by many. [b]And rally is a good proof of numbers, but ordering MPs via SMS is far far better proof of numbers[/b]. And SMS costs only 10 paise !! If 10 lakh can attend rally, then perhaps 10 crore can send order to MP via SMS to make NaMo (or XYZ) PM today.

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Aside :

Is spending money on rallies more important, or spending money in building shauchalayas? Well, my take is -- each one decide for himself. And Govt didnt spend money on rally anyway, and so it is a non-question.

Do the math of transport costs, money value of time spend by rally attendees , police costs, lost rent of ground and subtract costs of DVD + SMS. The money saved could have been spent to improve sanitation.

But "my bhakti" is always more important that "S for someone else". But a new Dev has come into town, and so his Bhakti has become more important than Devalaya for Ram Krishna and Shiv.