Peoples Assembly (Jan
Sansad)
at Jantar Mantar
Voices of People’s Movements
This People’s Assembly is held during
Parliament's session. It is being organized for 5 days from November 27-30,
2012 at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi. The Jan Sansad begans at Constitution Club on Nov 26, 2012.
There will be a series
of public hearings/demonstrations to bring before Parliament many basic issues
awaiting legislative action.
This will be an opportunity to build a people’s Manifesto for the 2014 elections to make it clear to political parties that they will be held accountable for not
acting in the Parliament.
Jan Sansad is distressed by the
increasing repression by the State, particularly on leaders of Campaigns and
movements, as well as the assault on democratic rights of citizens.
This will be an opportunity to collectively assert our commitment
to democratic principles and protect India’s basic Constitutional framework.
Day 1: Asserting our Democratic Rights – Building a People’s Manifesto for
2014
“On the 26th January 1950, we are
going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality
and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be
recognising the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value. In our
social and economic life, we shall by reason of our social and economic
structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value. How long shall
we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to
deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for
long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must
remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment else those who suffer
from inequality will blow up the structure of democracy which this Constituent
Assembly has so laboriously built up.” B.R. Ambedkar
·
Multiple
concerns of the poor
·
Responsibility
of the State in eradicating poverty and provide basic services
·
Panchayati
Raj and de-centralized governance
·
Neo-liberal
economic framework – determining our own economic future
·
Inclusive
India- addressing the concerns of marginalized communities
·
People’s
control over natural resources
·
Defining
Participatory Democracy
·
Deepening
Democracy
·
Fighting
State repression
·
Fighting
the Sedition law
·
Diversifying
forms of Public Protest
·
Protecting
the Freedom of expression and other democratic rights
·
Independence
of Media
Day 2: Governance Issues – transparency, accountability, anti-corruption
Day 3: State Responsibility for Social Security and Basic Services · Pension
·
Employment
·
Un-organized
Sector Worker Rights
·
Imminent
threat of Cash Transfers
·
Education
·
Health
Day 4: Land,
Agriculture and Natural Resources
·
Food
·
Proposed
Land Acquisition Bill
·
Land
Reforms Task Force
·
Seeds
Bill and Bio-technology Bill
·
Budgetary
allocations to agriculture
·
Renumerative
prices for farmers
·
Sustainable
farming and farm livelihoods
·
Income
guarantee for farming households
·
Mining
Policy and proposed Mining Bill
Day 5: Gender and Discrimination
These voices will help formulate a draft People’s Manifesto for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
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