VALUE BASED POLITICS –

need of hour
Filmi Stereotypes
 1980’s popular Hindi film villains were
caricatured businessman
 90’s Liberalization killed the stereotype.
 ‘Inquilab’ staring Amitabh Bachchan

initiated change of villains from

businessmen to politicians.
The Neta in Colonial Times
 Indian Neta’s have been a favourite target of
smear campaigns & propagandas.
 Colonial bureaucrats covered their

incompetence & corruption with lopsided

images of Neta’s
IAS- Indian in Name Only
 English speaking Indian bureaucrats cover
their misdeeds under the umbrella of the
political leaders.
 Indian News channels routinely conduct ‘Sting

operation’ on politicians, institutions, film

stars etc. but no one has been ever tried a
sting operation on an IAS Officer.
VALUES TARRED…….
WHAT IS REQUIRED????
 “Tired of crime, corruption and reservation,
groups of middle-class citizens are coming
together to change the political system by
being part of it. Sunday Times profiles new
political parties in the fray” [
Middle-class comes to the party
, Sunday Times of India, July 27, 2008.
 Saturday, August 28, 2010
Dr. JP launches Lok Satta Party in Tamil Nadu
Formally launching the unit, Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash
Narayan called upon the middle classes and the media to shed
cynicism, overcome despair and join the Lok Satta Party which is
providing an ethical, political platform to transform Indian politics. “It
is time the best and the brightest shouldered the responsibilities of
leadership as in the days of the freedom movement and strove to
make the country great. Let us not squander the present priceless
opportunity.” 

Dr. JP said that the country would be in grave peril unless it addressed
seven grave challenges confronting the country today. He listed them
as poverty, corruption, centralization, absence of rule of law, urban-
rural divide, liquor and drug menace and divisions within society.
QUESTIONS?
Thankyou.