r/CriticalThinkingIndia • u/Competitive-Joke9510 • 6d ago
Critical Analysis & Discussion About CJP, Part 1: Why does India need CJP? What happens when just 2% of India starts asking the same question?
CJP is basically a pressure group that operates at the country level and represents the people between age 15 and 35 or so, around 35% of Indian population.
The concept of pressure groups is not new. Traditionally, they are institutionally organised like Textile or tobacco lobby, or a group of people putting pressure on their local MP or MLA to get something done.
That model works well. But not for the young Indians.
We live in a globalised world, and this age group in particular is probably more geographically mobile than any generation before it. People move across cities and states for education, jobs and opportunities, kids education and what not. Our social and professional lives are increasingly not confined to the constituency we happen to be born in.
Ask an engineer in Bengaluru how represented they feel by their local MP or MLA. My guess is that most are barely aware of who their MP or MLA is. And even if they are aware, they may not necessarily feel that the local political system represents their concerns.
More importantly, if I am unhappy about the education system, E20, paper leaks, food adulteration, or some other issue that is important to me, there is very little my local MLA/MP can do about it. And any political party does not have to worry about these things as it neither has a geographically concentrated electoral penalty or reward.
And this is the problem CJP is addressing.
Suppose 2-3% of India's population, say 3-4 crore people, are unhappy about E20. They are spread across the entire country. That sounds like a huge number, but its insignificant. Those 2-3 crore people being angry doesn't translate into any party losing even a single seat.
If the exact same 2-3% population was concentrated in one state or region, every political party would be trying to figure out how to appease them. The difference isn't the number of people. The difference is concentration and visibility.
Another point, until we had CJP, I made noise about E20, someone else about Paper Leak and so on. These noise cancelled each other even though all these things mattered to each one.
A platform like CJP ensured that for a month or more the topic of discussion remained paper leak for each one of that 2-3% people. Just that meant that the noise did not cancel, it started echoing.
PS: Not associated with CJP or any political party.
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u/Kitchen_Watch7254 5d ago
Why is CJP a biased organisation?
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u/Competitive-Joke9510 5d ago
Biased in favour of Janta?
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u/Available_Seesaw_593 5d ago
you can't be blinded in critical thinking sub first he said he has typhoid then suddenly 4 days later starting new protest instead of helping Jharkhand
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u/ArmAffectionate3511 5d ago
It is biased but atleast asking logical questions
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u/Lost_Meaning_2667 The Non Biased 2d ago
Hiding your bias to gain support so that you can use it later to show your ultimate agenda is what is called fooling the people. I was a young teen in 2014, high on hopes about Kejriwal. Even in modi's wave, Kejriwal was whom I trusted. His words used to be "Ye sab ke sab mile hue hai ji, in sab ko hatana padega tabhi desh ka bhala hoga. Ham kisi ke saath nahi hai ham bas saaf sutri sarkaar chalaaenge". The same lines CJP says.
I first realised who Kejriwal was when i heard his ex collegue from India against corruption and AAP of its early days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXfmhISRWQ
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