Right to Recall Party (RRP) is a registered political party in India.[1][2] The RRP was founded by an IIT Delhi graduate and Indian anti corruption activist Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta in March 2019.[2][3][4] RRP came into existence because Mehta and his companions wanted to form a political party to gave publicity to the drafts of Right to Recall laws on PM and CM in India by using elections as a tool.[5]
When Mehta was working in the United States as a software engineer he observed that there were less corruption in police, courts dispensed justice faster and the political culture was much better as compared to India and found that corruption in foreign countries was low because those in power could be held accountable.[5] In 1999 he resigned from his job in the United States and returned to India and started writing law drafts for right to recall on Prime Minister and Chief Ministers posts and started publicizing them.[6]
Formationedit
Mehta started campaigning for Right to Recall laws on PM and CM and to promote more this idea, he floated Right to Recall Group in 2006. Almost 150 activists become members of Right to Recall Group in 2009. The members were using that time social media website Orkut to promote these drafts among activists in India.[5]
Establishmentedit
In 2009, Mehta want to form a political party to give more publicity to these drafts of Right to Recall laws by using election as a tool and he also named it as Right to Recall PM, CM party but could not get success in registration of party, beside this he and his companions started contesting election to promote law drafts written by him.[5] In March 2019, almost 10 years later, Mehta and his group members succeed to register a political party named Right to Recall Party and Mehta became its National President.[2][1]
Organisationedit
The party leadership consists of the following bodies:[7]
National President: Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta
National Vice President: Amit Swain
National Secretary: Rameshwar Jat
National Treasurer: Mukeshbhai Desai
State leadershipedit
The state leadership of the party manages the state wings.[7]
Manifestoedit
RRP has its manifesto titled as Vote Vapsi Dhan Vapsi authored by Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta and co-authored by Pawan Kumar Sharma, which claims the law draft based solution of problems such as corruption, unemployment, increasing foreign domination etc. in India.[8][9]
RRP candidate of Chandni chowk Loksabha constituency Richa Katiyar, a scientist-turned lawyer told Hindustan Times that the main objective of the party, as the name suggests, is to create a system where citizens are empowered with recall right so that they can recall their elected representatives if they are not satisfied with their performance.[30]
RRP got a total of 7,656 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits.[109] In this election the Election Commission of India allotted a common election symbol 'Pressure Cooker' to RRP for all 182 assembly constituencies in Gujarat State.[110]
Allegationsedit
In February 2020, some media reports published that 70 registered unrecognized parties including RRP received funds via electoral bonds.[111] But Mehta claimed that his party did not even have a bank account when they received the letter from the Election Commission of India.[112] He also claimed that they had submitted a nil donation report to the EC.[113]
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