Buoyed by the surge in discussion
around Chai stalls and the ‘eyeball’ and ‘electoral’ importance of Chai-time
after Narendra Modi’s ‘Chai Pe Charcha’ campaign and it pushing the herd
mentality forcing others to come with their own versions, the Chai-wallahs
organised a meeting in the National Capital Delhi having representatives from
every language, every culture and every geography of India, to deliberate on their
new-found celebrity status and to devise ways to discuss and squeeze out the
maximum possible political mileage from the Narendra Modi development and its
offshoots so as to ensure the maximum social dividend for their community.
Also, the emphasis was led on
swift working on the minutes of the Chai-wallahs conclave to deliver a charter
of demands as soon as possible so as to get the political community agreed to the
demands before the code of conduct of the Lok Sabha polls are enforced.
It was decided in the meeting the
Chai-wallahs across the country, irrespective of their social and community affiliations,
would project them as a unified social segment with a separate social identity.
The conclave was hugely
successful. The organizers said the corpus collected by ‘voluntary’ fund
donations has exceeded expectations and is enough to fund the organisation’s activities
for the whole year.
A sea of people was pouring into
the Ramlila Ground, the iconic protest ground of Delhi. The ground that can accommodate
tens of thousands of people looked incapable of handling the spirit of the recently-realised
Chai-wallah brotherhood.
One of the principal organisers
of the event said the ‘charter of demands’ was ready and soon it was to be sent to
the political parties to force them to pledge on the demands. The huge
community of the now socially-conscious Chai-wallahs, a considerably large
votebank, having pan-India presence, would support any political outfit on the ‘first
come’ basis.
They also say that as of now the
BJP and Narendra Modi have the ‘first mover’ advantage but since it is the
first consolidated effort of a unified Chai-wallah community to emerge as an
important sociopolitical group, it is their duty to give everyone a fair and equal
chance.