Doordarshi Party

The Doordarshi Party (Hindi: दूरदर्शी) also written as Door Darshi Party) was a political party in India. It was founded in Ahmedabad on 24 March 1980 by religious leader Baba Jai Gurudev on a platform of social reform and spiritual growth. The party did not receive significant support and withdrew from electoral politics in 1997.[1]

Doordarshi Party Manifesto

The Doordarshi Party campaigned with pledges to address issues including:

• Reform of the Constitution of India
• Release of innocent people in prison
• Employment for every educated youth
• Abolition of octroi taxes
• Exemption of farmers from repayment of loans for agricultural purposes
• Limiting elected politicians to a single tenure of five years with enforced retirement at age 60
• Sale of lossmaking nationalized industries
• Clampdown on black money
• Lowering of the retirement age to 60, with immediate payment of all pension fund entitlement
• Banning labour union involvement in politics
• Introduction of a dowry system acceptable to all
• Intellectuals shall be given due respect that they deserve.
• India should pay off all loans
• All nations should regard India as the supreme power.
• The respect and dignity of employees & officials should be restored.

All party candidates were required to be teetotal vegetarians.

Election results

The Doordarshi contested three General Elections to the Lok Sabha but won no seats.[2]

Year	Seats contested	Won	% of votes
1984	97	0	0.20%
1989	288	0	0.45%
1991	321	0	0.17%

References

1. "Jai Gurudev still pulls weight in UP". Times Of India. Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
2. "Poll Stats Genie". IBNLive.com. CNN-IBN. Retrieved 9 January 2012.

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