An open letter (request) to Aam Aadmi Party
 
Hi Team,

As it is known fact that getting new voter id card for middle class, Aam Aadmi is very difficult process.

I am trying from last few months (from here in Pune) but failed to get it yet.

I submitted my filled in forms with all supporting document (Passport copy as age proof, and bank passbook as address proof) during Voter ID Registration drive in one of the designated school, but haven't got it my voter id card yet.

I tried again from https://eci-citizenservices.nic.in but no success yet. I uploaded my form with all proof, and contacted the ERO, he gave me another number, and beside online facility, where it is mentioned officer will come to my residence for verification, they are asking me to bring printed documents submitted in-person in their office. I will try that too, as I need my Voter ID asap.

If you conduct Poll on Facebook and Twitter, you will find, not having Voter ID Card would be top most excuse. But getting it ready by election is also not easy process (Unfortunately Govt. gave more advt for Aadhar card and Digital setup box for cable TV, instead of Voter ID Card registration).

Usually Voter Registration drive are conducted by Political Worker of different political parties. Who prefer to arrange voter id card for people who would vote for them in exchange of money/liquor.

Dr. Ashwini Mahesh from Loksatta Party also filed PIL in Bangalore Hight court against Election commission to sort out discrepancies in voter registration process. He won the case also, and Court guided election commission to use Post Offices as place to submit Form6 etc. We should contact Dr. Ashwini Mahesh for detail verdict from court.

Another PIL on Bangalore Hight Court

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/specials/news/Karnataka-polls-PIL-seeks-online-voting-system/articleshow/19809195.cms

I would urge Aam Aadmi Party to :-

1. Start Voter ID Registration drive in school/colleges across country. Register college students, and encourage them further to lead the effort so that they register people from their residential colony.

2. Take the above PIL further into conclusive judgement, and enable Internet based voting, where person should be able to vote from anywhere.

3. Make Voter ID Registration process easy , by pressurizing Election commission to take up this issue seriously. (If they can outsource it the way Passport outsourced to TCS by Ministry of External Affairs).

Thanks & Regards,

Sutikshan Dubey (8888877189)

How secure your email & social networking accounts

Today I realize that these web-sites behave very differently then I expect them to. I tested facebook & gmail both, and I could not understand the meaning of tick-boxes in respective login pages:-

My assumption was if I close browser window without doing logout/signout , browser should forget my session, if I did not tick "remeber me" or "stay signed in" tick boxes at the time of log-on.

But to my surprise even if I do not tick this tick boxes browser still remembers my logged-in session even after restart of machine. What is the meaning of tick boxes? Can someone please give me logic behind these tick-boxes.

Password Hell and no sign of saving yourself from it

I found most of my friends are facing this problem (their social networking/email account being hacked). Reason for this is we normally use same email-id/password at time of being sign-up to other services/product/company sites. Sometime these sites can represent trusted source, and sometimes these may not be the case. 

Only recommendation is to never use same password with emailid being provided as user-ID, which is password of your id in different services you use (facebook/gmail etc.). Give a different password to these sites, and never repeat actual password which you use in conjunction with original user-name.

If you ever happen to use these services from browser of different machine, never forget to clear history. as things like following exist in browsers:-

To Summarize:-

1. Always clear Browser history when you use your accounts at some other non-secure computer (computer which does not ask your id/pwd when u logon. esp the case with net cafe)

2. Never use same password in conjunction with email id/user id which you use in original service. 

3. Last but most important step, prevent yourself from click on advertisement with dirty images  (google/facebook also show such advt.) and computer games and torretz sites, as these are most common source of misusing your password and can install malwares to your browsers and viruses too. 

4. Install this in your windows PC http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials

Split of Anna and Arvind Kejriwal - Good or Bad?

Actually what happened is perfect! Anna was never willing to be part of political party (he said that in Jantar mantar too). Anna-Arvind, not having each other are little weak but they will regain power in few days of Hardwork. If Anna had joined politics there were sure new Lalu/Sharad Yadav out of the poltics the way it happened with JP movement. Thats the way Anna himself expressed it. And it shows he learn from history. Anna and few key members of IAC not aligned with electoral political party, will ensure long life of "India Against Corruption" movement. Corrupt politicians will still hate Anna and his close associates,(which is a good thing :) and fear them. Even I am sure, Arvind's every move will be judged by current set of IAC people. Which is again a good thing for nation. One most powerful and simplest target of Anna ji is to make 90% people vote. If he achieves that then realization of those beautiful dreams are not far.


Arvind has chosen a far more difficult path. His move will strengthen youth's belief in democracy. As democracy is painfully slow form of governance, and patience is a virtue, youth does not possess, he and his supporters are going to face tough time. If they stay in right path, they will gradually earn support. I often heard co-workers of Arvind accuse him of being egoistic. Arvind and all his friends actively pursuing idea of ideal political party will soon realize that "ego" is something which won't let the an inch of success in this path. Arvind's move will also strengthen and will bring those "few good men" of indian politics in limelight which loose due to laziness/unawareness of youth in india (likes of Loksatta of JP, Arun Bhatia, Meera Sanyal, Capt. Gopinath, etc.)

I hope Arvind won't use "IAC" name in his new political party, He was one of the core member who built IAC and gave idea of Janlokpal, but even if it is painful, he should abandon it completely. As IAC belongs to millions of activist of India and not only Arvind anymore.

I feel influence of Anna will make 90% people get their Voter ID card ready, and Arvind if he trade carefully and find good candidates, will make those 90% stand in queue to vote for those good men.

Amen!!!

Next course of Actions for IAC

Dear Friends,
2011 was very fruitful year for all of us. We exposed all the MPs & Political parties, how much they all are scared of independent corruption investigation agency.
It was also sad to see poor state of our democracy and our first year of effort exposed many flaws and recent drama in parliament over weak Lokpal forces us to rethink our strategy.
I recently see #VoterAwareness Program which is very positive step. Here are my few more suggestions:

1. Continue with #VoterAwareness program,
2. Request & Convince Local Media to publish Candidate Past History and details, if they don't agree, Distribute leaflets describing about each local candidate what he disclosed to Election Commission:
3. http://myneta.info/
4. Start Awareness Camps who will help people to get their Voter ID Card ready and make them aware about importance of voting and different elections which happens and importance of each.
5. In India When we reject some Party/individual, strangely they earn more sympathy. It is time we should start identifying & supporting honest candidates also. It is risky but very important step to give real scare to corrupts.
6. Start pushing for Electoral Reforms, We should take help of all previous CEC to draft Electoral Reform Bill and start pushing for it.
   

Response to article by Bhanu Pratap Mehta on 7th April titled "Of the few, by the few"

Please find the mentioned article here
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/of-the-few-by-the-few/772773/1

My Response:-
Please start answering these :-

1. Do you accept the fact that there is unprecedented level of corruption in our country? Yes/No
2. Do you feel the need of strong anti corruption act? Yes/No
3. Do you believe current set of politicians will alone draft/bring that for us who get elected using Money Power and corrupt means? Yes/No
4. Don't we need enough Election Reforms to weep out the corruption at entry level itself?
5. Does an Honest person with sound qualification is able to get ticket of prominent political party today (without paying them large sum of money)?
6. Aren't we stuck inside infinite loop of corrupt getting elected, hence, they won't bring strong anti corruption act ever without a movement like India Against Corruption?

I hope my questions are simpler and easy to answer (I confess, I read the above mentioned indian express article 3 times to comprehend it fully). Keep it simple guys. India Against Corruption Movement is need of the hour.

Contents of Leaflet to distribute in Hyderabad

• 11 Right To Information Activist Brutally murdered by corrupts in last one year. They were our present day freedom fighters of India.

• Many other honest officers like Manjunath, Satyendra Dubey, Yashwant Sonwane killed in broad day-light. They were honest and not corrupt, hence, they were killed.

• Money meant for poorest of poor in India is not reaching them, it is being taken away by corrupt politicos, media and corporates

A strong Anti Corruption Act would have saved our heroes !

Prominent Indian citizens have drafted a strong anti-corruption bill called “Jan Lok Pal” Bill, which will eliminate corruption from India. For details about this bill please visit :

www.IndiaAgainstCorruption.org

Please join us in our fight against Corruption:-

• March – II 26^th March @ 7.30 Morning from [Kukatpalli Metro] to [Ameerpet]

• Join Mr. Anna Hazare, fasting for Jan Lok Pal on 5^th April 2011 (Details for hyderabad is awaited)

Please connect with us on Facebook/Twitter to stay informed about our movement

• http://www.facebook.com/IndiACor

• http://twitter.com/janlokpal

As media & government is corrupt and not supporting it, we have to make it successful with our own initiatives and efforts.

Prominent Personalities associated with this cause are:-

India's First woman IPS officer Kiran Bedi ji, Prominent Social Activist Anna Hazare ji, Lead Creator of RTI Act Mr. Arvind Kejriwal ji, Hon. Hon. Spiritual Guru Ravi Shankar Maharaj, Swami Agnivesh, Justic D S Tewatia, Ramdev Baba, Mr. Jayprakash Narayan (MLA from Kukatpalli) and many more

Come and be part of India Against Corruption Movement

We People of "India Against Corruption" movement writing to fellow Indian citizen, hoping for their support and make our fight-against-corruption a largest "people" movement of independent India.

This movement is currently being led by prominent social activists and concerned citizens from all spheres, and professions, who've come together to fight corruption in India. First step towards this is getting our draft of "Jan Lokpal" bill enacted. For further details please visit - http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/

We are very much active in Internet (Facebook/Twitter) and currently fighting to get "Jan Lokpal" bill enacted in Parliament.

You can be part of this movement by participating in following ways:-

• Visit http://voteforindia.org/home/register and register your vote against corruption.

• Spread the word about our movement with all your friends and family members by forwarding this text through email and by connecting with us on Facebook/Twitter. On twitter we are currently trending with #janlokpal

• Walk with us for Dandi March -II on 26^th March saturday morning in your respective cities. For details visit

• Fast with Mr. Anna Hazare on 5^th April 2011 in your respective cities. For Details visit

Need for Urgency

Friends, we are in same urgency which drove Mr. Subhash Chandra Bose to travel across the world for First Freedom. This is our fight for freedom from Corruption. We need to drive it restlessly and urgenly for follwoing reasons:-

1. According to a 2005 World Bank estimate, 41% of India falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day. Source They are the people who sleep hungry and deprived of basics in life.

2. Staggering 9% economic growth fueled by hard work of current youth is benefiting corrupt only, and not the poorest of poor who need it most.

3. Well, you all must be aware and have read about 2G, CWG, Cash-for-vote practice in elections, Radia Tapes, Illegal mining, black money stashed in foreign banks (shamelessly list goes on)... growth is just shooting corruption up, it is high time we fix this.

4. In last one year 11 RTI Activist got murdered brutally, and it is getting difficult for honest government officer to continue in their jobs. Find references (6-10).

5. We are not yet getting any support from National political parties (for reasons you can understand) and there is no sufficient support from print and electronic media (Though we live in a democratic country).

6. Internet and social networking site is only medium we can remain connected and plan our actions.

References and Links:-

1. http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org/

2. http://www.facebook.com/IndiACor

3. http://twitter.com/janlokpal

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India

5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxksAURdwTI&feature=player_embedded

6. Eight RTI Activist killed in 7 months(current count of martyrs is 11). The Hindu Report http://bit.ly/au60Pe

7. Yashwant Sonwane burnt alive - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashwant_Sonawane

8. Murder of Honest officer Manjunath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanmughan_Manjunath

9. Murder of MNREGA activist Niyamat Ansari http://www.freebinayaksen.org/?p=1815

10. Many honest officers are being tortured like this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arun_Bhatia