MOM: AAP Central Jersey Weekly Meeting Jan 5, 2014

Time: Jan 5th 2014, 3:00 PM.
Venue: Menlo Park Mall, Edison, NJ

Attendees: Subhadeep, Vilish, Shailesh Patel, Avenendra Mathur, Zubair Khan, Naveen Sharma, Sudheer Arukonda, Kirithika Verma, Ajay Verma, Pkaraksh Tiwari, Sreehari Sulochanan, Aman Bhatia, Jayesh Shrivastava, Himanshu Sharma.

We had great meeting yesterday. Lots of new faces and great enthusiasm to do something for India.


Few points:

1. AAP NJ/NY is planning a meet and greet and interactive session on Jan 26th where we can talk about what AAP NJ has done in last 8 months and path ahead.
2. Need to focus on community awareness in areas where we live. We should plan to reach out to our friends, neighbors. Old volunteers in AAP NJ can help new volunteers by joining them in their neighborhoods or attend their gatherings and spread AAP's message.
3. We all should participate and motivate others to be part of monthly donation drive, where each volunteer/supporter donates some fixed amount (be it $50 or $100) to AAP. We can also direct our donation to our choice of AAP center/state (say to AAP Haryana or AAP Karnataka).

We will have phone conferences to plans tasks for the above.

Please post NJ facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Aapkemitranj on your facebook page and ask people to donate to AAP.

As was declared after AAP's national executive meeting yesterday, there is a huge momentum from all over India and people want to march ahead in upcoming MP elections. All states representatives present in national executive meeting are geared up to the big Loksabha Poll.

Let us reach out to our home states and connect with local AAP chapters.

Jai Hind !!!

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MOM from last week.

Meeting of AAP Central Jersey on Dec 29th in Menlo Park Mall, Edison NJ.

Attendees: Rahul Gupta, Aman Bhatia, Bankim, Balwant, Rakesh, Kuldeep, Subhog, Ajit, Mukesh Kumar, Subhash Mathur, Avenendra Mathur, Himanshu, Kalpana

Few points:
1. Balwant bhai suggested that AAP should consider Ministers only from subject matter experts and not from elected MLAs/MPs. This is how it is done in the US.
2. AAP Website should have a tutorial (text+video) about how to register for vote.
3. Rahul Gupta bhai volunteered to help AAP NJ in getting publicity materials (topi, badges, stickers, etc.) from India (Delhi, Lucknow).
4. Bankim bhai offered to prepare a write on sugar cane issue in Punjab/UP. He also offered help in training customer service teams to handle phone calls in AAP and direct callers to right office or information center.

Jai Hind !!!