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Seems too good to be true? I found this superb idea while talking to a friend the other day. He says
A lot of youngsters try and enter politics as independent candidates, but bigger parties simply wipe them out with their marketing budget. The individual cannot go home and say “Dad, I need money to stand in the elections”! The state need to ensure a fair ground for this.
As we talked, he cited a ton of examples from various cities across the country. Got me thinking, we have upper limits as to how much a party can spend on election marketing campaigns. 
But how will smaller parties and individuals stand up to organized politics?
So far we have seen a ton of movies which depict young people enter the politics and smash the oldies in the face, but they start and end somewhere in those 3 hours at the theatre. We hardly hear about anything on ground level happening. There were a few IIT’ians and IIM’ians who created a whole lot of hype about getting into politics, thats about all that they did
Do you think money based politics is one reason why youngsters are not entering the politics?
If MONEY=POLITICS, why MURALIDHARAN fails in many elections ? Why not people like Ambani or Mallya or any other “Money Man’s” simply enter politics & try their luck?
POLITICS is sth different, what ever strategy or campaigns you make its final judgment is “By the People”. Who wins their heart will win their Votes too, No money matters!!
Comment by Jojo — May 12, 2009 @ 1:44 am
By the people is true….but the problem that a lot of young talented guys are not able to get the notice of the public…its take money to be noticed.
Comment by TheAnand — May 12, 2009 @ 9:26 am
If you want to enter politics just for the sake of entering it, it will be easy with money and impossible without money. But if by politics you mean helping the society, you should first start working for people around you, once you have grass root support parties will come to you for your support.
But if you want to enter the higher echelons in a single day as Shashi Tharoor or Rahul Gandhi did, you should either have money or the ‘right’ connections.I know a lot of people in politics who didn’t have that much money, but came through hard work at grass roots.
Even though it is tough for smaller parties to exist, a lot do persist.
If you are not ready to work at grass roots and still want to help society, politics is the wrong place for you, better start an NGO or prepare for IAS
Comment by febin — June 20, 2009 @ 10:18 pm
I will be interested to see how many states fail to meet bdget this year. They need a solid budget like the rest of America is living on.
Comment by don smith — July 7, 2009 @ 5:22 am