Rahul Mehta Gandhinagar LsCandidate
AK had asked AAP volunteers to tell to slum dwellers that each slum dweller family will get coupon book of 21000 liters of water every month, similar to some ration card or milk coupons, and tankers will deliver them free 700 liters everyday for each coupon !!!
I always wondered how can one fool a family with no meter that they will get 21000 liters a month of free water. Wont at least 1 out of 100 person ask question? So I asked AAP volunteers how they managed to fool slum dwellers to believe that unmetered connections will also get 21000 liters a month per family for free !! After all, to give any limited quantity for free, one needs a meter. The volunteers tell me that AK had fooled volunteers into believing that each slum dweller family will get some kind of coupon booklet every month, and each coupon booklet will have some 200 coupons, each coupon having value of 100 liters = 5 buckets of water !!! The volunteers were even shown samples of coupon booklets, and they showed such samples to slum dwellers when slum dwellers would ask them this water distribution question !! One volunteer has got election pamphlet with AK's pix, jhadu, candidate name etc etc and promise of this water-coupon booklet and also picture of this water coupon booklet !!! He will dig that pamphlet out and send me scanned copy.
Over 80% volunteers were all unpaid, genuinely prop-poor and concerned citizens. Many took a month's unpaid leave, lost salary of as high as Rs 40000 a month, spent Rs 500 of their own a day in hotel, spent Rs 300 a day for their own food, paid for their travel and also donated money to AAP.
And this is what they ended up doing ---- fooling slum dwellers into believing that slum dwellers will get water coupon booklet of 21000 liters per month per family !!!
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In share market, we have such 10s of scams where a start up will come, promise "1 ka 10" in one year and fool 1000s of investors. In such cases I studied, I saw that main person who ran the scam was NOT the company owner, but some guy at apex position with lot of media under him. That apex person would not anywhere on any official document of the company. That guy via paid-media will create a hype and faith in investors in that company. And then brokers will sell the shares en-masse. In each case, the company owner is shown as some whizkid and miracle guy. Here activists = grassroot brokers were all honest --- they themselves were fooled by paid-media. But middle level of brokers, who sell news in paid media got hefty payments.
I remember reading about one company in US which had "developed" "technology" for farming grains, vegetables and pulses at the bottom of the ocean !!! Their theme was "once world on surface runs out of land to do agriculture, the land at the bottom of ocean will be used for farming, and at that time, this company will make huge profits". It sold shares worth millions of dollars, and would be a billion plus by today's level. The owner of that company was a high profile scientist.
AK = AAP story is more or less same. The American elitemen, some Indian elitemen like Jindal, and Missionaries via paid-media is selling dreams to genuine activists and squeezing their time , energy and also small amounts of donations. The money they get from concerned citizens is small . In fact, for every Rs 1000 crore American elitemen and Jindals spend on paid-media, the donation they get is just Rs 100 crore. So goal is NOT monetary profits. But goal is to ensure that activists do NOT work on genuine economic , political reforms that can damage American elitemen's and Missionaries' interests in India.
Here is a picture of AAP-leader Kumar Biswas, paid-mediamen paid-Ashutosh of paid-IBN and other AAP leaders laughing how they fooled activists and voterts
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