My observation about what is happening in Indian politics and where it is heading. Though it is India centric its scope is not limited to India only.

1. Politics in 21st Century
Leadership
People Machines
Democracy
“Re-imagining Democracy
with People & Machines
combined” – Jitendra Rajaram

2. “We all have our own mental bubbles… within that bubble lies our arguments,
understandings and beliefs. We should never cease to struggle for expanding
this bubble.”
– Barrack Obama, Exit Speech
“The good thing about democracy is that intelligent group will never be able to
dominate it”
- Yuval Noah Harari, Author of Sapiens
I believe…

3. Millennials are now grown up citizens, Z Milens are now the voters.
Politics before recession 2008 was entirely different.
It’s like politics before 1930 recession was different.
Born in 2000 Vote in 2019
2008
Recession
1991
LPG
What happened here…
Economic Progress
...is effecting the politics here!

4. Key Professions
Education Administration Trade Service
Dominance Pre Vedic
BC
Post Vedic
AD
Post Moguls
Post Medieval
to Modern
Post 4th Industrial Revolution
Future

5. Profit
Welfare
Existence of the human conscience
Or…

6. Indian political journey*
1. Food
2. Cloth
3. Shelter
1. Electricity
2. Transportation
3. Water
1. Education
2. Health
3. Safety
1. Climate
2. Security
3. Equality
Justice in the
Collective
Conscience of
Mankind
Yr. 1952 Yr. 1990 Yr. 2019 May be Yr. 2030 Future
* Please note that these issues have NOT been achieved, just that these were the key issues on which elections were
fought or would be fought

7. The politics so far…
Enhanced people participation.
Undid animalistic slavery from almost all over the world.
Is not entirely controlled by wealth, religion or violence
anymore.
The Earth’s very survival now hinges on few triggers. Politics
has achieved humungous power, enough to destroy the world.

8. The people so far…
Nothing encouraging though, people are waking up to know what they are
rightful of.
An artificially created sandwiched layer of “middle class” has separated the
poor and rich for more bad than good reasons. Though this layer is fragile and
temporary.
The general conscience of the masses is dangling between religion and science.
The hopeful thing is that this oscillation is accelerating.
In democracy, the “crowd” is one single large “mind” made up of millions of
“micro-brains”.

9. And the machine so far…
The fourth industrial revolution has arrived.
The orga-mecha divide is narrowing.
The problems of humans has gone beyond the control
of humanity and machines are our natural remedy.

10. Demography
•Family Size, Livelihood and LifestyleHousehold
•Social structures of households and
their relationship with communities
Religion &
Society
•Crops, Landscapes and Sources of
Income
Geography and
Climate
The Voter
Urban / Rural
Educated/
Illiterate
Gender
Class /
Caste

11. Leadership
The Mind &
The Mindset
• What lies
inside a
leader
Political
Objectives
• What is
present in
front of a
leader
Ideology
• Line and
lineage of
the leader
Law of
Perception
• How does
the leader
stand in the
public
Three Circle of
Influence
• Who are the
lieutenants
and their
corps

12. Statistics
The Zero-Sum
Game
Only one wins at the cost
of everyone else
Analysis,
Interpretation &
Predictions
The past perfects the
future
Numbers are NOT
people
One can always predict
numbers but not people
The Others &
NOTA
The proxies, incumbents
and none of them

13. Management
Plan
• Impact,
Outreach and
Perception
List
• Required
• Available
• Not available
What
• They have &
don’t have
Functional
Metrics
• Drawing a path
towards victory

14. Resources
Data
• Everyone
has it but
NOT
everyone
understands
it.
Volunteers
• No one is
free, always
return
favors.
Employees
• Cost of their
skills and
services
Campaign
• If it is not
unique, it is
not enough
Public
Properties
• It belongs to
all of us, use
it, misuse it.
Administration
• They are the
part of
solution and
NOT the part
of the
problem
Third party
• Everyone
comes in a
package,
take it or
leave it.

15. Technology
G.Wa.T.Fa
Make Lots of content
One to one videos
for personification
1
Control what is being
talked about you in
the social media.
2
Delegation: You can’t
do everything. Hire
professionals and
trust them.
3

16. Winning Formula
At least 600 people per legislative constituency who can devote at least 20
hours a week under your leadership, get them at least 60 days before election.
Out of 15 hours work schedule keep 4 hours separate to attend emergency
situations, everything else must be planned and must go as per schedule.
Keep a record of every big and small leaders of your constituency, know about
them, their political demands and issues they are raising.
Last 48 hours, when campaign closes, meet every volunteers in person and
listen to them.
Make proximity points in your constituency to park your resources on standby,
over and additional then the resources deployed in the booths.

17. What we are doing
@AAP MP?
Taking politics to the people who are leading their respective domains.
Approaching victims and vulnerable sections of society & Listening to them.
Becoming an alternative to delete the notion that politics is dirty.
Formulating achievable solutions for the problems crushing our societies.
Raising alarm for everything that system has wrecked.
Arvind Kejriwal
Convener AAP India
Alok Agrawal
Convener AAP MP

18. What am I doing in politics?
Trying to make politics approachable to middle and lower classes of
society.
Developing a commercially viable process so that more youngsters can
join politics.
Basically, for politics, I am converting a “Test Cricket” into an “IPL
Tournament”.
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19. Questions
1
How much caste
system controls
political balance?
2
Can EVMs be rigged?
Should we go back to
ballot system?
3
How much social
media campaign is
helping?
4
How advertisement in
print and electronic
media is working?
5Shouldn’t there be a
biparty system? 6Does ideology
matters? 7
Is there any space for
parties like AAP or
Sapaks or JAIS?
8
Are IITians, IAS, CEOs
etc. joining the
politics helping?
9Should we be
hopeful?
Should I join politics?
How?

20. “A leader create leaders
& a slave create slaves”
-
State IT In-Charge, Aam Aadmi Party,
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Jitendra Rajaram
www.jitendrarajaram.com
+91-900-90-36633
105, Kalindi Shivalik, Indore
jitendrarajaram@gmail.com