This is about two ordinary people, who had no money, no support from any political party, no media support, no muscle powers and yet they won elections with thumping majority of votes.
Their uncle's were not Bob. In other words, they had no privilege of being born in family of politicians.
This is unbelievable. So incredible, that some of you would not like to waste further time on this article. Ultimately, at the end of this article nothing concrete will show up in this article.,so why waste time?- some of you may think like this.
Mahendra Mashru
Yes. This First part is about Mahendra Mashru.
If you want to check political career of this ordinary man, you can Google it and go to Facebook to read his career graph and to check it with your critical eyes.
But this article is from eyes of a Poet or a Day Dreaming writer. Poets are not bound in four corners of real facts. They can add imagination to publicly known facts.
We poets and day dreamers write as we feel.
Second Part of this article will be about a Maid Servant who got elected to Parliament of Britain. You will find nothing about her from Google, until I will give you some clues... (In fact I have some memories, I will have to search on Google and other search engines)
Purpose Writing of This Blog Post
The purpose is to attempt to convince you, that even for a simple and ordinary person it is possible to win election without money, without media support and without tickets from political parties.
What I see in Future in India
I think that Political Brands have started losing impact on ground level politics. The people who have firm roots at ground level will win elections. They can always win With or Without any tickets of any political parties.
Here, starts the story of an ordinary man
30 Years ago, I began to here stories about this man.
He was serving in a small local bank in Junagadh.
I was also in Junagadh. I had just joined a District Court Bar and in idle time, we used to gossip and hear stories.
Stories I heard
There was a badly managed Government Hospital.
There was corruption.
Doctors used to ask patients to buy costly medicines from market. Ignorant and Illiterate people from small villages. Their plights were too much.
1) Then one day, this ordinary man took a half hour leave from manager of his employer Bank. After taking leave, he went to government hospital and gave his blood to a poor patient who would have died if no one had come forward to give blood in time.
2) After two days, this ordinary man again went to Manager. And once again he asked for a half -hour leave. There was a call from Hospital. Another poor needed his blood.
3) Then it became a routine. Many people joined him. A Blood Bank come up on a two rupee note book. It contained names of willing blood donors and their telephone numbers and blood groups.
4) Then, when any hospital in city wanted blood for any poor, they used to call this man. A donor with right blood group used to reach this private or public hospital, in twenty minutes.
5) No blood donor ever wished or ever asked for anything in return for his blood.
Then things progressed
1) One day, after his service time at bank was over, instead of going to home, this ordinary man, went to Government Hospital.
He found a pillar in Hospital were he could sit. He put a placard, that those patients who are leaving hospital after being cured, should donate unused medicines. These medicines, thereafter will be given free to needy and poor patient.
2) That first day, he waited at pillar of hospital from 6PM to 11PM. Some people donated him some unused medicines.
3) On second day, few of his friends joined him and began to sit with him near pillar in Hospital. They all sat upto 11.00PM and sometime till next day 6AM.
4) Then words spread. More people joined him. Cupboards came up to keep donated medicines.
5) Then one day, a rich man donated an ambulance to this man for helping poor.
6) Meals, began to come up from rich families, to be served to relatives of patients in hospital.
7) And the span of his activities continued to spread. I cannot recall all.
8) One day Bank Manager called this man in his chamber and said,
"Look Young Man, the people need you more than this bank needs you.... So go and serve people whole day......... Just come at 10AM. Put your signature in attendance register and then go away. Some of us will do your work. You just come to collect your salary and to sign in muster register in Bank."
9) The words of his services spread in area of 500 Kilometers from Junagadh.
Then one day he decided to contest election.
He filed his nomination to contest against heavy weights of Congress, BJP and other strong people.
This man had no money to run election campaign. But he knew these:
(1) He had donated his blood to both Hindu and Muslim poor, without asking them about their caste.
(2) Before helping anyone, he never asked any one to bring proof of his poverty.
(3) He never asked or even wished in his mind, for anything in return for his services.
Then he also knew that because of his selfless service, now he had got at least 12 friends who were ready to give their lives for him. (This is the true index of Leadership Q. Think if you have any such friends!
He won the election with thumping majority !!
No one knows whether there was any campaign for this man or not. His 12 devotees worked day and night and visited and knocked at doors of voters.
They just told them, "If any time if any of your relative is in hospital, and if he needs blood urgently, and if you will knock at door of this man at 2.00.AM, he will just wear his slippers and will come with you and will give his blood for your relative,and that too, without asking you even your name!"
Well, that was it. He continues to win election after elections, TILL NOW .....
If you wish, you can check this man "Mahendra Mashru" on Google or Facebook.
It appears that his Face book account is opened only few months back.
It means he kept winning all these elections, all these years, even without help of Social Media.
Our Duty to this Man
Krishna said in GITA,
"Mankind should sponsor those who are Glorious and Strong among them. In return, They will become pleased, and then They will lead the whole Mankind to that which ultimate good for mankind.
Thus, you should sponsor Glorious and Strong Persons, and Glorious and Strong Persons will sponsor you.
By mutually sponsoring each other, the whole mankind should flourish on this planet,"
So as per GITA, our duty is to find out people like this man,and to sponsor them.
Haresh Raichura
31/3/2012
P.S.
1)Interpretation of some verses of GITA, is my own. Not based on commentary of any religious leader.
2)As soon as my thoughts will become clear, I will write Part 2 about a maid servant with a broom, who got elected to British Parliament, defeating all political parties. She promised to people that with her broom, she will clean up the British Parliament.
3) Part:-2 is published on 2/4/2012.
Their uncle's were not Bob. In other words, they had no privilege of being born in family of politicians.
This is unbelievable. So incredible, that some of you would not like to waste further time on this article. Ultimately, at the end of this article nothing concrete will show up in this article.,so why waste time?- some of you may think like this.
Mahendra Mashru
Yes. This First part is about Mahendra Mashru.
If you want to check political career of this ordinary man, you can Google it and go to Facebook to read his career graph and to check it with your critical eyes.
But this article is from eyes of a Poet or a Day Dreaming writer. Poets are not bound in four corners of real facts. They can add imagination to publicly known facts.
We poets and day dreamers write as we feel.
Second Part of this article will be about a Maid Servant who got elected to Parliament of Britain. You will find nothing about her from Google, until I will give you some clues... (In fact I have some memories, I will have to search on Google and other search engines)
Purpose Writing of This Blog Post
The purpose is to attempt to convince you, that even for a simple and ordinary person it is possible to win election without money, without media support and without tickets from political parties.
What I see in Future in India
I think that Political Brands have started losing impact on ground level politics. The people who have firm roots at ground level will win elections. They can always win With or Without any tickets of any political parties.
Here, starts the story of an ordinary man
30 Years ago, I began to here stories about this man.
He was serving in a small local bank in Junagadh.
I was also in Junagadh. I had just joined a District Court Bar and in idle time, we used to gossip and hear stories.
Stories I heard
There was a badly managed Government Hospital.
There was corruption.
Doctors used to ask patients to buy costly medicines from market. Ignorant and Illiterate people from small villages. Their plights were too much.
1) Then one day, this ordinary man took a half hour leave from manager of his employer Bank. After taking leave, he went to government hospital and gave his blood to a poor patient who would have died if no one had come forward to give blood in time.
2) After two days, this ordinary man again went to Manager. And once again he asked for a half -hour leave. There was a call from Hospital. Another poor needed his blood.
3) Then it became a routine. Many people joined him. A Blood Bank come up on a two rupee note book. It contained names of willing blood donors and their telephone numbers and blood groups.
4) Then, when any hospital in city wanted blood for any poor, they used to call this man. A donor with right blood group used to reach this private or public hospital, in twenty minutes.
5) No blood donor ever wished or ever asked for anything in return for his blood.
Then things progressed
1) One day, after his service time at bank was over, instead of going to home, this ordinary man, went to Government Hospital.
He found a pillar in Hospital were he could sit. He put a placard, that those patients who are leaving hospital after being cured, should donate unused medicines. These medicines, thereafter will be given free to needy and poor patient.
2) That first day, he waited at pillar of hospital from 6PM to 11PM. Some people donated him some unused medicines.
3) On second day, few of his friends joined him and began to sit with him near pillar in Hospital. They all sat upto 11.00PM and sometime till next day 6AM.
4) Then words spread. More people joined him. Cupboards came up to keep donated medicines.
5) Then one day, a rich man donated an ambulance to this man for helping poor.
6) Meals, began to come up from rich families, to be served to relatives of patients in hospital.
7) And the span of his activities continued to spread. I cannot recall all.
8) One day Bank Manager called this man in his chamber and said,
"Look Young Man, the people need you more than this bank needs you.... So go and serve people whole day......... Just come at 10AM. Put your signature in attendance register and then go away. Some of us will do your work. You just come to collect your salary and to sign in muster register in Bank."
9) The words of his services spread in area of 500 Kilometers from Junagadh.
Then one day he decided to contest election.
He filed his nomination to contest against heavy weights of Congress, BJP and other strong people.
This man had no money to run election campaign. But he knew these:
(1) He had donated his blood to both Hindu and Muslim poor, without asking them about their caste.
(2) Before helping anyone, he never asked any one to bring proof of his poverty.
(3) He never asked or even wished in his mind, for anything in return for his services.
Then he also knew that because of his selfless service, now he had got at least 12 friends who were ready to give their lives for him. (This is the true index of Leadership Q. Think if you have any such friends!
He won the election with thumping majority !!
No one knows whether there was any campaign for this man or not. His 12 devotees worked day and night and visited and knocked at doors of voters.
They just told them, "If any time if any of your relative is in hospital, and if he needs blood urgently, and if you will knock at door of this man at 2.00.AM, he will just wear his slippers and will come with you and will give his blood for your relative,and that too, without asking you even your name!"
Well, that was it. He continues to win election after elections, TILL NOW .....
If you wish, you can check this man "Mahendra Mashru" on Google or Facebook.
It appears that his Face book account is opened only few months back.
It means he kept winning all these elections, all these years, even without help of Social Media.
Our Duty to this Man
Krishna said in GITA,
"Mankind should sponsor those who are Glorious and Strong among them. In return, They will become pleased, and then They will lead the whole Mankind to that which ultimate good for mankind.
Thus, you should sponsor Glorious and Strong Persons, and Glorious and Strong Persons will sponsor you.
By mutually sponsoring each other, the whole mankind should flourish on this planet,"
So as per GITA, our duty is to find out people like this man,and to sponsor them.
Haresh Raichura
31/3/2012
P.S.
1)Interpretation of some verses of GITA, is my own. Not based on commentary of any religious leader.
2)As soon as my thoughts will become clear, I will write Part 2 about a maid servant with a broom, who got elected to British Parliament, defeating all political parties. She promised to people that with her broom, she will clean up the British Parliament.
3) Part:-2 is published on 2/4/2012.
