One of the biggest challenges for the current India polity in general which has come to fore due to the rise of a newbie party in the Capital state; but has been overlooked grandly by the commercial mass media is the 'expectation's of people' from the political worker's. The "current expectations" of people from the political workers or locality representatives of political parties vis-a-vis what is the self view of current political workers in major parties is penned below:
S.No.
Aam Admi's View
S.No.
Current Political Worker/Local Leader's View
1
A Person who can help identify the wing's/deptt. of the government appropriately, from where he can get his specific issues resolve. In a way a 'May I help you' desk with appropriate knowledge for proper counselling.
1
Person who has local bonding to gather small crowd to agitate for 'any cause' in order to gather people for the 'show of strength' of election bound leader.
2
Person or group of people who have current knowledge of the working structure of various deptts. of government including names and contacts where people can approach for their issues and advise ways to cut time and cost; this may include offering extended support for under appropriate circumstances for which some incentives may be available
2
Person with rapport with government deptts. And who can influence bureaucrats into decision making so that donor's interest are addressed almost immediately while some public interest can be progressed or depicted to be progressed due to pol leader's intervention so that party's support based is retained and grown further due to worker/local leader's action
3
Person who can guide Aam Admi on how to make specific interventions with authorities and at right levels so as to get appropriate response for his cause, preferrably without bribes.
3
Person who can collect funds from public or businesses to fund local agenda of political parties. This often involve colluding with authorities to sniff money out of often unsuspecting people.
4
Person who can identify key issues with policy and procedures including absence of or often cumbersome exception handling methods allowing bureaucrats to make hay in sunshine and seek redressal for the same on public's behalf.
4
Person who manages manupulations of government structures to favour Political Parties leaders, key supporters and donars so that the parties and local leader's agenda can be progressed.
5
Aam Admi wants this person to be able to question his political leaders in order that the leaders are more sensitive towards the needs to the people including their development and progress. The local area development or municipal issues being immediate concern areas.
5
The political worker/local leader is expected to represent political parties interests in the area and carry forth leader's agenda to sell the same to people of the locality to convince them that the same is appropriate addressal for their needs. Questioning leader is a strict no-no by workers and should be left to journos and rivals only. The leader in turn is sympathetic to worker's needs.
6
Aam Admi expects the person to have appropriate understanding of laws, policies and procedure being imposed on him by the government including the rationale as well as some of the valid criticisms. He should be able to lecture and debate these to raise awareness and gather support or opposition.
6
Person is expected to 'show' complete dedication towards political leader in public and carry forth the agenda often frozen in time irrespective of the views of local population. He is supposed to sell this agenda to supporters and rally them around leaders by hook or crook for his 'survival' as a political party's volunteer. The leader can replace him with another official volunteer if deemed appropriate in view of the leader.
7
In reality such political worker's do not exist in India as under current circumstances there is lack of approriate support structure for such people whether moral or financial. The political workers are branded 'dalals' and shunned irrespective of there behaviour; which could be because of public's strong bias against political class.
7
Such people thrive and flourish in abundance due excellent farming techiques available for the same in numerous political formulations coupled with financial support and moral apathy for reasons of poverty, lack of education and lack of law and order/discipling forces such as police.
There can be no denial that the political system in India is rotten. It suffers from not only public apathy but also those of the political leaders. It is rotten because the political workers of yore as well as present breed frequently collude with the 'bureaucrats' to amass power and money in order to sniff out rival politicians as well as there workers. This results in ubridled power for them in the locality with loardship. This has crumbled the availability of any other political support structure for masses that may have offered alternatives. On the part of masses, their immediate concerns for 'self' cloud the thinking to offer foresighted solutions that can shape the nation as appropriate for its rich heritage and civilizzation. While the current political flux may throw in 'some change of faces', it is a change in the polity is the requirement of the day where in political workers and leaders maintain there distance from the bureaucrats and 'gunda elements' and allow 'real political democracy' to thrive and where alternate political ideas are listened to as well as debated appropriately. This may require grandiose changes in how political parties are managed and political process is conducted by them. It may also require further new thinking including in the newbie party which may force it to think in terms of 'say- providing voice to working professionals and self employed' rather than fixation on a 'Bill' or something obscure as 'corruption' and define several ends, means and processes required for Aam Admi in his pursuit of survival as well as for thriving.