Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate
Sending orders to MP via SMS with hashcode has clear advantage over sending postcards, slogans, rallies etc --- you get proof whether MP wants to know your opinion or not. How? If MP sends feedback SMS, that means he wants to know your opinion ; in case of postcard, slogans etc
In case of rallies, slogans, postcards, you never get a proof that MP wants to listen to your voice or not. Let me explain.
Say 100000 voters stand at a corner and shout slogans. Now there is no proof for voters or rest of the voters whether MP wants to listen to their voice or not. But say 100,000 of them send order via SMS with same hashcode. Now if MP's server's sends feedback to them saying "thank you, I have recieved you #code , and NNN voters have sent this #code" , then it least it proves that MP does want to listen to voters and know the counts. And if voter gets NO feedback SMS, then it proves that MP doesnt even want to listen to voters' orders.
In case of slogan shouting, there is NO way to prove whether MP wants to listen to you or he doesnt want to listen to you.
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Slogan shouting, ralllying, cap wearing etc are the most idotic ways one can think of proving numbers . How can one count numbers and what about 98% who did not attend the rallyand didnt shout any slogans. How can one ever prove or even know what those 98% wanted? And at the end of slogan shouting, one doesnt even have proof whether MP wants to know voters' voice or doesnt want to know voters' voice.
The ONLY purpose rallying and sliogan shouting does is that it drains the energy out of activists and citizens, so that he becomes numb, and accepts the status quo.
Whereas in case of sending orders to MPs via SMS, within minutes you will know whether MP wants to listen to your voice or not. eg if you get feedback SMS in few minutes or even 1 day, then it means that MP at least wants to register to your voice, he may or may not read it or act upon it. And if you dont get feedback, then it proves that MP doesnt even want to register your voice forget, knowing about it.
And next, if you send SMS with #code, and you get SMS from MP's server which has count of voters who sent same #code, then you also you know that MP does want to know what his voters think. And if you get no such feedback SMS with count, then it proves that he isnt interested in knowing voters' opinions at all.
There is no such feedback possible in case of slogan shouting
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Which is why, we ate Right to Recall Group has been asking voters across India to send orders to MPs via SMS. And we are asking MPs to setup SMS server which can send feedback SMS, get count for #codes and also send counts for #codes that voter has sent.
Sadly, Anna, Arvindbhai and Subramanian Swamy, all three have opposed the proposal that voters should send orders via SMS. They insist on slogan shouting , cap wearing and vote gathering. AK also refused to setup an SMS server where voters can send SMS with #code , and voters will get count of voters who have sent that #code. AK has asked volunteers not to ask voters to send orders to MPs via SMS
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Solution I propose is that activists and voters should ignore appeal of AK, Anna on not sending orders to MPs via SMS, and they should start sending orders to MPs via SMS with same #code for same order.