Английская Википедия:Didi Ke Bolo
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox project
Didi Ke Bolo (Шаблон:Translation)[1] is an initiative started by the All India Trinamool Congress, that provides a platform for the people of West Bengal to directly lodge concerns or complaints to the Trinamool chairperson and state chief minister Mamata Banerjee. Шаблон:As of, nearly 500,000 grievances were lodged using this platform.[2]
Background
All India Trinamool Congress appointed Prashant Kishor as their political strategist after 2019 Indian general election. Kishor conducted a series of meetings with the senior leaders of All India Trinamool Congress, and came up with the idea of "Didi Ke Bolo".[3][4][5]
Implementation
A 250-members team runs an office for "Didi Ke Bolo" at Rajarhat, Kolkata. When someone calls to lodge a grievance, an executive receives the call, and notes down the contact information of the caller, and the nature of the complaint. Complaints are received from the project's official website also. Usually, a complainant gets a call back within 48 hours. The entire process is supervised by the chief minister's grievance cell.[2]
Reception
According to The New Indian Express, this campaign received good response from the people of West Bengal.[6] Шаблон:As of nearly 500,000 grievances were lodged using this platform.[2] In August 2019, a person in Durgapur, West Bengal was beaten up by after he lodged corruption complaint against a local political leader.[7] On 8 August 2019, 20 Bengali families from Karnataka were rescued by complaining in "Didi Ke Bolo". Their houses were surrounded by flood water.[8][9][10]
Dilip Ghosh, BJP chief of West Bengal, claimed that the campaign is copied from BJP's Chai Pe Charcha.[11] Indian National Congress leader Somen Mitra launched "Didike Bolchi" and asked several questions. Mitra remarked "We want to keep the questions and answers on record, which necessitated our own website".[12]
References
External links
