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It was heartening to read about the Lok Paritran Party ("When the Davids take on the Goliaths", April 15). Ideals of good governance have brought to a common platform some IITians. I wish them success in the forthcoming elections and further in implementing their ideas and realising their dreams for a better India.
Way back in 1979 in Assam, the All Assam Students Union started a mass movement. Oil installations were the main targets of the picketing and I lived in one such. Although I did not agree with all the aspects of the demands of the agitation, I was amazed at the organisational capacity of the student leaders — the way they mobilised public support and maintained a discipline in adhering to their agendas. Those days I used to tell my Assamese friends, "The AASU should give up this agitation. They should instead form a party, come to power by democratic means and do good for the State." Eventually, the AASU did jump into the poll fray as the AGP. Student leaders of yesterday became Ministers. But what happened after that? The party went the way of all political parties and proved that power corrupts. Let this not happen to Lok Paritran.
Seetha Subramanian
Velachery Road
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