If we carefully analyze the base on which the whole party rested, we could eventually drill it down to three letters - IIT. So many voters in Chennai decided to vote for the party just because it is formed by IITians!! I have no second opinion in the fact that IIT is one of the best educational institutions in the country. But does that suffice to form a political party and contest in elections? My honest reply would be a strong NO. A party that relies on emails, website and sms alone for its campaigning; a party that never really understood the problems of the constituency, a party that placed a guy from North India who studied in IIT and stayed in the US until he came back to contest in this election at a constituency like Mylapore and Triplicane (just examples) in my opinion is unfit to be called a party and voting for it is out of question. If the person wins there, will there be any advantage offered by him to the commoner, the poor and the down-trodden? Will he/she at least be able to converse with him in fluent Tamizh? Absolute question mark!
Education exposes a person to different things and the way the person grasps it and really applies it to suit the needs of a commoner is completely subjective. Voting for a person because of good looks, caste, education (alone), craze is all the same in my view and it results in very poor selections at least a vast majority of the times.
In my opinion, a man like Vijayakanth who knows the problems of the society & has the guts to fight is better suited to be a MLA despite the fact that could hardly pronounce the word English or Tamizh correctly; as compared to someone who speaks English with the perfect diction without knowing the constituency and the people there!
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I don't agree with the comment that the guys don't know the day to day problems of the people of their constituency...all the candidacies were Indian citizens only...every tom, dick and harry of this country knows about the chronic problems...
even I had a soft corner for these guys and believed they will do something good...unfortunately they never...after the elections I don't know where they are what they are really doing with the money they collected from millions of software professional (Yes...even I got a mail from them for donations)...as you said to me, its just a 'seasonal fever' they have...may be their heads will be visible again during Lok Sabha Election 2009...
True the problem with LP was that they never looked at the down to earth basic issues and the party had too much of problems within themselves.Agreed that they wanted to be a party with young leaders as shown in Yuva,but they lost it mainly coz they cudn't reach the masses.And now we don't even know where they are except that i keep getting updates that they have finally settled down to the stuff they actually wanted to do before taking a go at politics.
An aam aadmi will rather respond to Captain instead of someone young and comes with a pretty face.High time they realise that and hopefully if they by anychance contest in 2011 elections- they don't repeat the same mistakes what they did in the last one.
Boss... We are not talking about becoming a journalist! It's good enough for a journalist to know the chronic problems of the country in general! But if you contest in a constituency for a MLA position, you need to know the specific problems in that locality in and out. For instance if you contest in Adyar constituency reducing the traffic, taking care of the slums that are located right at the heart of Adyar, the sewer problems in LB road and so many other problems are specific to Adyar constituency which might not be applicable to a constituency like Villivakkam. In other words the priorities of people in a locality take the topmost seat as opposed to talking like a general environment analysis SME who mentions corruption, population and unemployment are the major problems of India!
ha ha ha...so does Jayalalitha know the problems of Andipatti or does Karunanithi know the problems of Chepauk? Most of the MLAs get to know the problems only after swearing in...moreover, the guy who stood in the Mylapore constituency was from Mylapore...
they lost bcos of the reason Ramaa has mentioned...they lack publicity...but after the elections they should have tried to do something different rather than hiding themselves like this...anyway, its a waste of time discussing abt these useless guys...
They never said they'll revolutionize India and so we don't expect it from them! :)
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