Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Rashtriya Lokneeti Party, despite being hobbled by its recent inception, resource crunch and multiple other internal contradictions, nevertheless has magnificently succeeded in creating an upsurge of its own presence in Uttar Pradesh by extending its wholehearted support to BJP in the ongoing election in Uttar Pradesh. Significantly, the Party has been under the unconscionable stress brought about by myriad sources, the foremost of which being the internal contradiction, in recent days. Small wonder then, the party confronting the daunting challenges from multiple fronts, finally handed over the leadership to Shri Shoolpani Singh. The National Core Working Commitee of the Party, in its marathon meeting had consensually agreed to hand over the mantle of leadership to a suave gentleman, Mr Shoolpani Sigh, the seniormost member of the NCWC.
The Party was led, in the past, since its inception, by a Brigadier who decided to call it quits. No wonder, in the sudden wake of tiding over this ensuing crises, the party had passed on the mantle of leadership upon the seniormost member of the National Core Working Commitee, Mr Shoolpani Singh.
The advent of the elections in Uttar Pradesh was a formidable challenge for Rashtriya Lokneeti Party, for neither it has the resources to field its own candidate nor it had the infrastructure at its place to showcase the behemoth of its philosophy which has all the potential to herald its own footprints in the electoral arena of the largest state of the Union, in terms of number of constituencies, even though it might not be in terms of square area. However, the party was faced with a humngous dilemma: will it wait for the better time, presuming the ongoing election as its moratorium period, or take a plunge, even though it might not be contesting the elections, yet supporting the party which it thinks has an ideological affinity, even though no political symmetry? This too had its own share of twists and turns: Rashtriya Lokneeti Party has a unique vision which envisages a resplendent dawn for 1.30 billion of its citizens; an equi-distance from both BJP and Congress. The behemoth of its bedazzling vision which talks about the kick-starting of a new journey from Rajneeti to Lokneeti–a non-conventional trajectory that nation should follow for its sunlit path ahead; where the power should pass on from the elected representatives to that of their electors. Now, the moot dilemma staring before the NCWC of Rashtriya Lokneeti Party : which political party contesting in UP, even though not in toto, nonetheless in greater proportion, has a striking resemblance with that of the vision of Rashtriya Lokneeti Party?
Uttar Pradesh, like other parts of India, has a spectacular issue confronting its face: The return of so-called secular forces will be tantamount to writing off the obituary for the very concept of Ram Rajya, which BJP is seeking to achieve, or at least purportedly persevering to accomplish. Unequivocally, the living testimony of the same is the Grand Ram Lala Temple in Ayodhya which bears the living exemplification of India, at least, has begun earnestly to return to its moorings. Further, under the current Yogi dispensation, BJP has successfully arrested the escalating mafia rule and consequently the scores of dreaded criminals have been incarcerated. No wonder, the return of Yogi raj, notwithstanding its own omissions and commissions, ushers well for the people of Uttar Pradesh. On the contrary, the triumph of the rag tag coalition of Samajwadi Party under Akhilesh Yadav, presents the ominious prospects for the degeneration of the state into that of an anarchy; the very degree and magnitude of which, even at its remotest of imagination, sends the shivers down the spine of hoi polloi.
The NCWC of Rashtriya Lokneeti Party, in course of its own deliberation, keeping the above stated factors into consideration, finally reached a consensus: The party should go ahead and extend its support to BJP. The party has authorised its Chief Convener, Shoolpani Singh to extend the party’s support to BJP, for registering its presence at the hustings, even not by its electoral presence, yet by sheer symbolism. However, this support extended is only meant for this ongoing assembly election and, in no situation, shall extends beyond it. Significantly, in this bold and audacious endeavour, the party also congratulates its newly appointed Chief Convener Shoolpani Singh for taking a Himalayan initiative for propagating the luminous ideology of the party across the UP and the nation. Thus the Party has taken the first decisive step to herald its arrival in UP and the rest of India. It is the beginning of the long journey for Rashtriya Lokneeti Party which aspires to empower 1.30 billion of its citizens through the institutionalisation of Lokneeti by uprooting Rajneeti from every nook and corner of this country.
Vivekanand Jha is the Author of A Journey from Rajneeti to Lokneeti awaiting its publication. He is the member of NCWC and the National Spokesperson of Rashtriya Lokneeti Party.
He is an Author, Academician and a Public Intellectual.
He is the Convener of Education pe Charcha.
