From: Dr. Leo Rebello Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 6:43 PM
To: Anna Hazare ; Justice N. Santosh Hegde 09845000022 ; Arvind Kejriwal -
Parivartan India ; Adv. Prashant Bhushan
Cc: Medha Patkar - 9423965153 ; Swami Agnivesh ; Kiran Bedi ; Aruna Roy ;
Arundhati Roy ;
Subject: SECOND INDEPENDENCE -- IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS RELEASED BY DR. LEO
REBELLO IN 2004.

To Anna Panel Members on Jan Lok Pall Bill

Like CAs do window-dressing of the Final Accounts, diluted Jan Lok Pal Bill,
like the diluted RTI, will be just a Band-Aid to the corruption cancer.

Accept the fact that like Baba Ramdev, you too have been marginalised

by the CONgress. The solution lies in what I wrote to Santosh Hegde, J
on 14th June. Discuss my said letter and let us make the most corrupt Govt. come
down on its knees with proper strategy without threats of fast (which has now
become a farce).

Since you are talking of Second Independence read my following Agenda
written and circulated in 2004. I am ready to guide you/work with you.

Looking forward to hearing from you and with best wishes,

Dr. Leo Rebello

AGENDA FOR BETTER GOVERNANCE
Issued in 2004 by Dr. Leo Rebello

1. Instead of political parties imposing candidates, people must identify good
candidates.
2.. Instead of political parties declaring manifesto, there should be People's
Manifesto or Common Minimum Programme. If 57 years after Independence, people do
not get the bare minimum of Roti, Kapda and Makan, such a democracy is a sham.
3.. Full five-year term to elected representatives.
4.. President who is elected in India, should become the Executive President. He
should select his cabinet cutting across party lines, thereby ushering in
party-less democracy.
5.. Compulsory voting so that the winning candidate gets minimum 51% votes.
6.. (a) Bringing contesting candidates on common platform, (b) changing form
VII-A Rule 10 (1), and (c) no distribution of cards by contesting candidates, in
order to cut on election expenses.
7.. The mischief of removal of names en bloc from the voters' list and remedies.
Here the fault lies with the Election department.
8.. Multi-purpose Voters I-cards.
9.. Voting Machines should be tamper proof. There should be verified voting.
Supreme Court of the Philippines recently rejected voting machines. They are
also not being used in Japan, in most European countries and in Ohio/California
in USA.
10. People's Shadow Govt. at Central and State levels to keep a tab on the
Govts.

Common Minimum Programme
1.. Provision for People's budgetary proposals.
2.. Right to Work should be recognised as a fundamental right.
3.. Every family must have atleast one earning member. Otherwise, dole or small
loans should be given to the poor families.
4.. Six-hour work shift in all continuous process industries.
5.. Two shifts in banks and post offices and part time jobs.
6.. Form SAARC Union with open borders, common currency, no arms and armies
(divert that fund for sustainable development).
7.. Impetus to Indigenous Medicines (Desi Dawai) including for AIDS, as per WHA
resolutions.
8.. Compulsory Education upto SSC. Higher education need not be subsidized.
9.. 50% Reservation for Women in all fields of endeavour.
10. Like in Cuba, Army should be used for civil work, like constructing Bridges,
Highways,
Canals, cleaning the Rivers, cleaning the Himalayas, etc.
11. Make Mumbai upto Pune and Nasik an International City, and
12. Shift UN offices to India.

This will liberate us from faulty Western paradigm.

Let us fight for the Second Independence, let us fight to Right the Wrongs.

For additional details you may contact Dr. Leo Rebello, World Peace Envoy, at :
28/552 Samata Nagar, Kandivali East, Mumbai 400101. Tel. 28872741.

Moderator's comment:
Dr. Rebello would change the future by resurrecting a four year old programme.
The discussion on the previous post initiated by him makes no dent on his
approach. The second independence is the freedom from our little selves - we
change the world by changing ourselves. Baba Ramdev is a case of point. He
started with the strong advantage of four ministers waiting for his arrival at
the airport, that is how seriously the government took his agitation, but blew
it up by placing himself above his cause. As a teacher of the ancient wisdom, he
should have known better. Anna Hazare is discovering to his chagrin the
stonewalling capacity of the established interests that do not want change. The
problem is age old. The Indian establishment also resisted Sri Aurobindo:

Aurobindo’s Opposition
Why the Indian establishment resisted him
MANGESH V. NADKARNI
Sri Aurobindo, the world-renowned yogi, poet, philosopher, patriot and lover of
humanity, devoted most of his life to the quest of the Supermind, which, he
thought, was the only power that could bring perfection to human life on earth.
The Indian intelligentsia of the last half a century had many problems with Sri
Aurobindo because he often raised inconvenient questions and forced them to
review the intellectual paradigms by which they lived and so they conspired to
marginalise him.
Sri Aurobindo was not a religious leader; he was a great spiritual figure,
probably the greatest in human history, who discovered the truth of the
Supramental consciousness, of which no religion had any idea, and who developed
a yoga for those who had an inner call for it to grow into it. The international
city of Auroville as well as Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry are the two
laboratories started by him and his collaborator, the Mother, for his experiment
of ushering in a new man, a united new world and a spiritual civilisation.
Our intelligentsia proudly quotes Darwin, Freud and Karl Marx because these have
been the three thinkers who have influenced our age the most. Sri Aurobindo
dealt mainly with the same issues as these three thinkers and in the light of
his writings we are able to appreciate them better because he presents the
complete truth these thinkers distorted in their own ways.
The fact that Sri Aurobindo did not receive a favourable reception in India
intellectual circles during the last half a century has been very unfortunate
but not very surprising, because he was in his views and in his vision so
radical and so much ahead of his times, that he effectively alienated four of
the strongest intellectual establishments in the country, namely, the
traditional Hindu religious establishment, the Gandhian establishment, the
politically non-committed but eurocentric university intellectuals who are the
products of Macaulay’s educational system, and also the leftist,
communist/socialist establishment.
The Hindu religious establishment did not take kindly to Sri Aurobindo because
he emphatically denied world-negation as the central thrust of Indian culture.
Many of our countrymen still take great pride in the Shankarite and Buddhist
legacy of regarding the world as a delusion, and therefore as of no value. His
insistence on worldly progress being a quintessential part of the Indian
spiritual tradition alienated Sri Aurobindo from the Hindu establishment,
strangely enough. The Gandhian establishment was not entirely happy with Sri
Aurobindo because of his insistence that India must cultivate the kshatriya
spirit, not merely Bhakti and Jnana.
The reason why the academic establishment in India was opposed to Sri Aurobindo
is that he rejected the colonial-missionary model of history, which regarded the
Aryan invasion theory as its crown-jewel. Sri Aurobindo was probably the first
to issue a warning against the invasion theory in his book On the Vedas, written
nearly 80 years ago. Nor was Sri Aurobindo an uncritical admirer of the Western
liberal-humanistic tradition.
The reasons for the neglect Sri Aurobindo suffered among leftist intelligentsia
in India was that he was cold to the promises of communists and the dreams of
socialists, and because of his strong spiritual orientation. But it must be
pointed out that Sri Aurobindo was not opposed to communist ideology per se as
can be seen from the following statements of his:
‘‘If communism ever re-establishes itself successfully upon earth, it must be on
a foundation of soul’s brotherhood and the death of egoism. A forced association
and a mechanical comradeship would end in a world-wide fiasco.’’

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