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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Eye on transparency, another new outfit formed

Eye on transparency, another new outfit formed

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published Published on Aug 9, 2013   modified Modified on Aug 9, 2013
-The Times of India


NEW DELHI: Taking on the rampant money and muscle power in politics, a new political party, Nav Bharat Democratic Party, was launched on Thursday, promising clean candidates and transparent democracy. The party helmed by a motley group of professions, including a retired naval officer, entrepreneurs, lawyers and others, promised to provide an accountable government.

The party will field candidates, including working professionals, entrepreneurs and veteran politicians, weaned away from their parent parties. They plan to contest from about 10 states in the 2014 general elections.

Speaking about the initiative party president RK Misra - who won TOI's LEAD India campaign meant to recognize young generation leaders - said there was widespread frustration among people over issues of corruption and poor governance.

Comparing India's slow development to China, Misra who is an IIT-Kanpur alumnus and has extensive experience working in youth mobilization and grassroots activism, said that the country had brought half a billion of its population out of poverty in the last three decades with 10% growth while India had failed to keep the momentum of 9% growth.

The party, who also includes Vice Admiral SCS Bangara (retired) and political thinker Shekhar Tiwari, plans to field "credible and winnable candidates" in strategically selected constituencies representing 50-100 Lok Sabha seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala. Misra said the party was focusing on parliamentary seats so that they could influence government policy effectively.

Key focus areas for the party are youth engagement, women empowerment and strong national identity. "We need to speak the language of the youth," he said, adding that 70% of India's youth population was under-employed or unemployed. Stressing the need to generate employment Misra said that major parties were only interested in handing out doles whether through employment allowance or reservations in jobs.


The Times of India, 9 August, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Eye-on-transparency-another-new-outfit-formed/articleshow/21720115.cms


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