Right to Recall Party | |
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Abbreviation | RRP |
President | Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta |
Secretary | Rameshwar Jat |
Founder | Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta |
Founded | 25 March 2019 |
Headquarters | Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
Colours | Yellow |
ECI Status | Registered Party |
Seats in Lok Sabha | 0/545 |
Seats in Rajya Sabha | 0/245 |
Election symbol | |
Pressure Cooker | |
Party flag | |
Website | |
www | |
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]
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]
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]
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
The state leadership of the party manages the state wings. [7]
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]
Year | Legislature | Seats contested | Seats won | Overall Votes | Percentage of votes | Vote swing | Ref. |
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2019 (debut) | 17th Lok Sabha | 14 | 0 / 543 | 28,817 | 0.009% | - | [10] |
Election Year | Overall votes | % of overall votes | seats contested | seats won | +/- in seats | +/- in vote share | Sitting side |
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Maharashtra Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2019 (debut) | 672 | 0.001% | 2 | 0 / 288 | |||
Jharkhand Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2019 (debut) | 2,358 | 0.02% | 3 | 0 / 81 | |||
Delhi Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2020 (debut) | 272 | 0.002% | 4 | 0 / 70 | |||
Bihar Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2020 (debut) | 3,416 | 0.008% | 4 | 0 / 243 | |||
West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2021 (debut) | 777 | 0.001% | 2 | 0 / 294 | |||
Punjab Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2022 (debut) | 373 | 0.002% | 3 | 0 / 117 | |||
Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2022 (debut) | 407 | 0.01% | 4 | 0 / 70 | |||
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2022 (debut) | 4,264 | 0.004% | 11 | 0 / 403 | |||
Gujarat Legislative Assembly | |||||||
2022 (debut) | 7,656 | 0.02% | 21 | 0 / 182 | |||
The 2019 Indian general election [11] were the party's first electoral contest. RRP fielded 14 candidates [12] [13] [14] of various constituencies including Gandhinagar, [15] Ahmedabad East, [16] Ahmedabad West, [17] Anand, [18] Bangalore North, [19] Bhopal, [20] Ahmadnagar, [21] Jhunjhunu, [22] Chittorgarh, [23] Bhilwara, [24] Ghaziabad, [25] Jamshedpur, [26] Chandni Chowk, [27] North East Delhi. [28] RRP got a total of 28,817 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [29]
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 contested 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election and fielded 2 candidates [31] from various assembly constituencies including Shevgaon, [32] and Ambegaon. [33] RRP got a total of 672 votes polled and both candidates lost their deposits. [34]
RRP contested 2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election and fielded 3 candidates [35] from various assembly constituencies including potka, [36] Jamshedpur East, [37] and Jamshedpur West. [38] RRP got a total of 2358 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [39]
RRP contested 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly election and fielded 4 candidates [40] from various assembly constituencies including New Delhi, [41] Laxmi Nagar, [42] Ghonda, [43] and Patparganj. [44] RRP got a total of 272 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [45]
RRP contested 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election and fielded 4 candidate [46] from various assembly constituencies including Katihar, [47] Mahua, [48] Amarpur, [49] and Kasba. [50] RRP got a total of 3416 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [51]
RRP contested 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and fielded 2 candidate [52] from various assembly constituencies including Sonarpur, [53] and Ramnagar. [54] RRP got a total of 777 votes polled and both candidates lost their deposits. [55]
RRP contested Punjab Legislative Assembly election 2022 and fielded 3 candidates [56] [57] from Various constituencies including Amritsar South, [58] Dera Bassi, [59] [60] and Ludhiana South. [61] RRP got a total of 407 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [62]
RRP contested 2022 Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly election and fielded 4 candidates [63] [64] from various constituencies including Tehri, [65] Raipur, [66] Doiwala, [67] and Kotdwar. [68] RRP got a total of 373 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [69]
RRP contested 2022 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election and fielded 11 candidates [70] [71] from various constituencies including Sahibabad, [72] Ghaziabad, [73] Mathura, [74] Jhansi Nagar, [75] Charkhari, [76] Phaphamau, [77] [78] Mehnaun, [79] Barhaj, [80] Hata, [81] Gorakhpur Urban, [82] and Varanasi South. [83] RRP got a total of 4,264 votes polled and all candidates lost their deposits. [84]
In December 2022 RRP fielded 21 candidates in 2022 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election [85] [86] from various constituencies including Bhuj, [87] Jetpur (Rajkot), [88] Porbandar, [89] Una, [90] Gariadhar, [91] Bhavnagar East, [92] Botad, [93] Karanj, [94] Visnagar, [95] Prantij, [96] Ghatlodia, [97] [98] Vejalpur, [99] Ellisbridge, [100] Amraiwadi, [101] Maninagar, [102] Lathi, [103] Dhandhuka, [104] Petlad, [105] Nadiad, [106] Dahegam, [107] and Bapunagar. [108]
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]
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]
In 2020, Bir Singh Deogam, the MLA candidate of RRP in 2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election from Potka Assembly Constituency [36] was attacked and beaten up. [114]
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