As per the Election Commission of India, the permissible expenditure limit for Lok Sabha elections is Rs 70 lakh. Atishi Marlena, AAP’s East Delhi parliamentary seat in-charge, is betting big on this and has already launched a crowdfunding campaign on Wednesday, 6 February, which has successfully raised Rs 19 Lakh. As per the party leaders, the campaign shall continue online with a target to raise Rs 70 lakh.

AAP has nominated in-charges on six of the seven Lok Sabha constituencies in Delhi. They now are expected to be soon declared as the official candidates of the party in the upcoming elections, reported PTI.

Yashwant Sinha, Javed Jaffrey and Jignesh Mevani are some of the early contributors among others.

Yashwant Sinha, former Indian politician tweeted a video appreciating, “Atishi’s efforts have dramatically improved the condition of Delhi’s government schools. Someone like her needs to have a voice in Parliament. I appeal to the people of East Delhi to vote for her and elect her to the Lok Sabha.”

Delhi Dy CM @msisodia's ex Advisor @AtishiAAP has been instrumental in transforming Delhi's govt schools, and will contest the Lok Sabha election from East Delhi. People like her need to be in Parliament! आतिशी जी को मेरा पूरा समर्थन है! #ISupportAtishi https://t.co/8PWNujUK5d pic.twitter.com/ELpm57vbKV

— Yashwant Sinha (@YashwantSinha) February 6, 2019

A short film showing Atishi’s efforts towards bringing about change in Delhi’s government schools as the former advisor to Education Minister Manish Sisodia was also released as a part of the ongoing campaign.

Do not miss this short film on @AtishiAAP's story of making change happen in Delhi's government schools.

Atishi needs your support in the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Will you invest in India's future? #ISupportAtishihttps://t.co/ZpbfuUgLiQ pic.twitter.com/UK05uRmg9I

— AAP (@AamAadmiParty) February 6, 2019

You can witness the support Atishi is getting from the crowd with  #ISupportAtishi on Twitter.

Fundraising in politics is the new sexy

Aam Aadmi Party ran a successful crowdfunding campaign called “Donate to AAP” in 2015,

BJP had also launched a micro-funding campaign through the NaMo app in October 2018.

In the recently concluded Karnataka elections, Congress too crowdfunded its campaign for a candidate from Molakalmuru.

Sources:

Ahead of 2019 Elections, Atishi Marlena Begins Crowdfunding Drive – The Quint

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It was Salasky and her online platform CrowdJustice that helped change the face of Brexit. The campaign run by the name “Article 50 Challenge by Liz Webster” did the magic. It was then, Supreme Court decided in 2017 that Article 50 should be triggered by parliament rather than royal prerogative i.e MPs had to agree to start the process.

This is what Professor A. C. Grayling, Master had to say on the subject.

“Article 50 Challenge by Liz Webster“ Brexit is built on sand. When we look past the rhetoric and hype about the Will of the People and examine the facts and events that led to Brexit, we see that the Article 50 process was not followed properly and that our Article 50 notification is predicated on a decision that has no basis in law. Despite what many people were led to believe, Parliament has never delegated the withdrawal decision to the people and has never made the withdrawal decision itself. With no constitutionally valid decision, the process is invalid and illegal.”

Salasky says it was while working on a major project focusing on online dispute resolution that gave her insight into how difficult it can be for people to speak to lawyers and understand their legal rights. As per the figures released by the Legal Services Board in 2015 showed that 7 in 10 people with legal issues didn’t bother to pursue them.

“There were a lot of naysayers at the beginning. Law as an industry is so steeped in tradition and when you’re trying something new, that can be a huge impediment. There were some articles published around our launch saying ‘this is a very noble idea, but it will never work’.”

It has been just four years and over £10m has been raised, by 200,000 backers, for more than 500 legal cases on CrowdJustice. Isn’t that a staggering number?

More power to such innovative ways to solve problems. More power to Julia Salasky and other changemakers.

The story first published on The Big Issue.

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