Senseless Syndrome

ramanujam May 8th, 2006

     First of all I would like to thank matter mama but temporarily turned serious Praveen for roping me into the campaign quest and all the other enthusiastic LP volunteers at Mylapore. I longed to do something and prav acted as a gateway and I also became one among them. Although I joined at the neck of the moment I am pleased with what I have done. Two days before the final campaigning day I went to Mylapore with the plan of doing some canvassing and volunteering but I stayed at my friend’s house and went there only in the evening so that at least I could attend the mass meet at Mylapore mangollai.

Mylapore Mangollai meeting
     The mass meet was stated to start at around 6 but I reached there a little early and so I along with my classmate took a round in Mylapore. The meeting had a very decent crowd and was larger than expected with many elders providing great support. One thing I noticed was that there were no pamphlets strewn on the roads unlike an ordinary political meet. All those who spoke delivered effective messages and Santhanagopalan Vasudev (Mylapore candidate) assured governance free of corruption and promised all the basic amenities in the constituency if he were elected the MLA. Then everyone lit their candles and the LP theme song was played. It was very nice.

     Then many other candidates, party members and volunteers spoke highly about the future prospects and many other aspects of the party. Then after the meeting there was an informal meet and all the remaining works were completed .All the volunteers were asked to come to Gopal sir’s house in the morning for the final day campaigning. It was then I met my cousin’s friend Balaji from IIT-M. Loads of thanks to Balaji for he volunteered to pick me up from my home in his bike the next day. Then I collected a few pamphlets and distributed them in the bus stand and buses. Many people gave a supportive voice and I felt happy.

The D-Day Campaign
     The next morning everyone assembled at Gopal sir’s house and a bike rally was stated for the day. There were about 50 bikes and I was a pillion rider with Balaji. We all proudly wore our Lok Paritran t-shirts and arm bands, fixed the flags and were ready to start. A local group who had joined the party the previous week were instrumental in arranging the speakers, autos etc and did yeomen service.

     Then our National President Tanmay Rajpurohith came and addressed all of us. What a man he is…his majestic looks and along with the charismatic soft speaking Santhanagopal, LP is gonna sky rocketing in the future. With the candidate SV in the center jeep the convoy started and the enthusiasm was spellbound. Tanmay and others also took off their bikes. Hats off to Dhiraj (DK) for skillfully organizing the pack.
“Stick to ur formation….pack in two’s….. Hey baiyya kya kare thum???” We traveled through many areas in Mylapore and then from beach road to pallikaranai, adayar, shastri nagar, RA puram, Besant nagar etc with guys campaigning “kodana kodi makkale,kodaliku vote podunga!!!!”. I would definitely say my enthu got dipped when we went through the fishing hamlets…they will be what they are!!! The same “enna MGR sethutaara….”condition prevailing. We were so tired after the hectic campaigning and returned to SV’s house after 4 hours.

     Still 21/2 hours more and Tanmay said those who still have the stamina to campaign without taking your lunch stay. Almost everyone stayed!!! What a spirit!!!
Then we campaigned in the city…it was great fun shouting “Vote for Lok Paritran” amidst the hustling main roads of the city. We covered mount road, tnagar, west mambalam and other adjoining places yelling out “podungama vottu, Kodaliya parthu…..” when we reached mount road…”LIC heightu, kodali (LP symbol : AXE) thaan weightu…”and many other yells. At around 5’O clock we downed our flags and ended our campaign and went back to Mylapore and around 100 volunteers went to Hotel Maris and had our dinner. It was one full day I will never forget in my life and I am feeling proud that I have done something worthy.

Never worry about the results, after all this is the BEGINNING…..

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