kitnatime.fyi · a Jan Sabha campaign · Launches 2 October 2026
Kitna Time? Ab faisla aapka.
You elect governments every few years. Should you get a say on the decisions in between?
Our proposal, Jan Sabha, moves law-making from elected representatives to direct, line-item citizen votes on issues. No candidates. No parties. No symbols. No manifestos. Just the question, and your answer.
Be the first citizen to make a mark
Line item · Roads
Road potholes
Should every verified pothole complaint be resolved within 7 days, with the resolution rate published on a public dashboard?
- Cost
- ₹42 crore / year
- Funding source
- Existing road-maintenance head
- Responsible authority
- Municipal Corporation
- Compatibility check
- Cleared — no conflict with passed items
No candidate. No party. No symbol. One question.
Why this exists
Deadlines pass. The numbers can't be checked. Kitna time?
Two crore jobs. Double the farmer's income. Housing for all. Every headline promise in our ledger was missed, moved or disputed — across governments, not one party. The problem isn't only who promised. It's that a promise has no starting number, no deadline you can check and no counter you can trust.
2 crore jobs a year
Deadline: Every year, from 2014
Double farmers' income by 2022
Deadline: 2022-23
Housing for All by 2022
Deadline: 31 March 2022 (India's 75th year of Independence)
₹15 lakh in every bank account
Deadline: None was ever stated
Mumbai–Ahmedabad bullet train by August 2022
Deadline: 15 August 2022
A $5 trillion economy by 2024-25
Deadline: 2024-25
Rejuvenate the Ganga (Namami Gange)
Deadline: 31 March 2021 (₹20,000 crore)
Yamuna clean to bathing standard by February 2025
Deadline: February 2025
Not a full audit: a set of headline promises whose dates have passed. Every figure links to its source.
The proposition
Representatives should administer the country. Citizens should decide the rules by which it is governed.
Stays with a professional executive
- Administration
- Foreign affairs
- Defence
- Emergency powers
Principle 6 — Executive Retained. Someone still signs the defence deal, runs the ministry, answers the phone at 3 a.m.
Moves to citizens
- Originate policy
- Approve policy
- Reject policy
Legislative authority. Every ballot is a specific question with a published cost, a funding source and a responsible authority — decided on its own, not bundled into a party platform.
Old India
asked you to wait.
New India
asks you to trust.
My India
asks you to decide.
“New India” is the government's own branding. “Old India” is someone else's nostalgia. Both are borrowed national narratives, handed down. My India is returned to the citizen: not announced by a government, not claimed by a party — just the citizen deciding, line by line.
Ten founding principles
The rules for making rules.
- 01
Citizen Initiative
Citizens can propose legislation or policy directly.
- 02
Citizen Referendum
Above a verified support threshold, a vote is binding, not advisory.
- 03
Citizen Review
Any existing law can be forced back into a vote if enough citizens demand it.
- 04
Participatory Budgeting
A fixed share of public spending is allocated by direct citizen vote.
- 05
Mandatory Transparency
Every line item is published with cost, funding source, beneficiary and risk before any vote.
- 06
Executive Retained, Legislative Transferred
Administration, foreign affairs and emergency powers stay professional; law-making authority moves to citizens.
- 07
Minority Shield
No citizen vote can strip a constitutionally protected right.
- 08
Independent Verification
Every claim, government or campaign, is fact-checked by a body neither controls.
- 09
Digital + Physical Access
Voting happens at ration shops, panchayat offices and post offices, not only on phones.
- 10
Mandate Tracking
Every citizen decision gets a public dashboard showing what was implemented, and what wasn't.
The platform
Every line item moves through five stages — before and after a vote.
- Stage 1→
Propose
A citizen or ministry submits a line item in plain language.
- Stage 2→
Debate
Experts, affected groups and citizens submit arguments for and against.
- Stage 3→
Verify
An independent body publishes cost, funding source and a compatibility check against existing law.
- Stage 4→
Vote
Citizens vote yes/no or ranked choice on that line item alone.
- Stage 5
Track
Implementation is published on a public dashboard until resolved.
Track → Propose · when a resolution threshold is missed, the item can be forced back to the start
Line items are collected from 2 October 2026. The first verified one is listed on 26 January 2027.
All line items →One issue. One question. A published cost and a named authority. Here are seven opening questions to get the conversation going — drafts for you to amend, back, or beat with a better one.
- 1
2 October 2026
Line items open
Anyone can propose a line item, back the ones they want, and argue for or against.
- 2
Until 26 January 2027
Collect, debate, verify
Backed items go to Verify: cost, funding source, responsible authority and a legal compatibility check.
- 3
26 January 2027
First verified item listed
On Republic Day the first item that has cleared Verify is listed to be formulated as a ballot.
Part 1 · live now
Sign the idea. Not a candidate — the question.
The election ink on a fingertip is the one symbol of Indian democracy that belongs to no party. This is that mark, for the decisions in between elections: a low-friction, shareable register of citizens who want a say on issues, one line at a time.
0
marks made
0
states & UTs
A public commitment · two parts, one date each
Fourteen days launches a movement. It does not launch a voting platform.
Part 1 · Live
2 October 2026
- The manifesto and the hook question, public and shareable.
- The Ten Founding Principles and the core taglines.
- Seven opening questions, and the open call: line items collected 2 October to 26 January.
- A pledge mechanism — support for the idea itself, not yet a vote on a line item.
- A stated, public date for when the platform goes live.
Part 2 · In build
26 January 2027
- The Propose / Debate / Verify / Vote / Track platform, as a working pilot on a CONSUL DEMOCRACY fork.
- The independent Verify body — fiscal, legal and domain expertise, separate from any campaign or party.
- The first real, trackable Citizen Mandate, in one municipality with an existing participatory-budgeting precedent.
- Progress published here, so the pledge list has somewhere real to go.
Phase 0 · Months 1–3
Build
Verify body seated; platform live for one pilot line item
Phase 1 · Months 3–6
Local Pilot
One mandate resolved above 60%, publicly tracked, with no successful legal or fiscal challenge
Phase 2 · Months 6–12
State Scale
Multiple states running line items; a published, citable Mandate Report
Phase 3 · Year 2+
National Question
A credible constitutional case, backed by a multi-year track record rather than sentiment alone
Heard that before?
Common objections, and the principle that answers each.
- “Mob rule”
- Principle 7, Minority Shield
- “Citizens can't read a 500-page bill”
- Principle 5, mandatory plain-language disclosure, plus the Debate stage
- “Digital divide excludes rural India”
- Principle 9, physical voting access
- “Who signs a defence deal?”
- Principle 6, Executive Retained
- “This is populism with better branding”
- The Track stage — a public resolution dashboard, not a promise
What happens next
The pilot first. The constitutional question last.
- 1
Now
Pledge your support for the idea. A pledge is a signature, not a vote.
- 2
2 Oct 2026
Line items open. Citizens propose questions, back them and argue for and against. Seven opening questions are already on the table.
- 3
26 January 2027
The first verified line item is listed — the one that has cleared Verify with a published cost, funding source and responsible authority — and the platform opens.
- 4
Year 1+
Local and state pilots with weekly public data. The national constitutional question comes last, and only with a track record behind us.