A party that trains politicians

Politics is not a family business. It is a skill.

We teach ordinary Indians how a candidate is actually built, then put a party behind them.

Nobody is hiding the door.
They just never drew the map.

Ask anyone how a person actually reaches a ballot paper and the answer is a shrug. There is no syllabus for it, no mentor, no fee structure, no timeline. So the only people who learn it are the people born next to it.

We wrote the map down. It is now a course, and it is open to anybody willing to do the work.

The manifesto

Eight commitments. Each one resolves to a number somebody outside this party can check.

  1. 01

    Jobs on a calendar

    Recruitment advertised with dates, exams held on schedule, results published on time. A generation has lost years to postponed appointments.

  2. 02

    Legal help within reach

    A free legal aid clinic in every district, and the laws people actually meet explained in the language they actually speak.

  3. 03

    Schools with named vacancies

    Teacher vacancy counts for every government school published monthly, by school, with the date the post fell empty.

  4. 04

    A health centre you can reach

    Staffing and medicine stock for every primary health centre posted publicly each month rather than filed and forgotten.

  5. 05

    Farmers paid on record

    Every procurement receipted and traceable, with the payment deadline written into the contract and the delay counted publicly.

  6. 06

    Courts that are actually staffed

    Fast track courts filled to sanctioned strength, with pendency and conviction figures released district by district.

  7. 07

    Air and water as numbers

    Local readings tied to a named officer and a published remedy, so pollution stops being weather and starts being accountability.

  8. 08

    Money in the open

    Every rupee our candidates receive is published with the donor named. We would rather raise less and answer for all of it.

Read the manifesto in full

What we actually teach

Ground strategy and booth work

Voter rolls, booth committees, padyatras, and the arithmetic that settles a ward long before polling day.

Your own digital team

Content, ads, rapid response, and a social media unit built for you rather than rented for a season.

Speech and debate

Stage craft, press handling, and holding a hostile panel without losing the argument.

Constitutional and legal literacy

Taught by a practising advocate. Rights, remedies, RTI, and reading a bare Act without a lawyer at your elbow.

Nomination to counting

Forms, deposits, polling agents, the model code, and what happens inside the counting hall.

Funding and compliance

Where campaign money may come from, how it is recorded, and filing an expenditure return on time.

Rajat Singh, founder of the Rashtriya Independent Party
Rajat Singh, Founder

The person who wrote the course

Rajat Singh. Advocate, teacher, founder.

Rajat has spent over a decade in a classroom and taught more than fifteen thousand students. He practises as an advocate and takes up matters for people who would otherwise never reach a courtroom.

He built LAWL, a legal technology platform made to put legal help within reach of people who cannot afford a retainer. This party is the same instinct pointed at politics. Take something that looks sealed shut, and teach people how it opens.

Students taught
15,000
Years teaching
10
  • Practising advocate
  • Founder of LAWL
  • Diploma, Civil Engineering
  • BSc, Physics
Meet the leadership

From application to the ballot

  1. Apply

    Your name, your district, and the one thing you would fix first. No fee, no reference, no introduction required.

  2. Screening

    A conversation with the state team about your record, your intent, and the constituency you know best.

  3. Training

    The full course. Ground work, digital, law, and speech, closing with a live campaign simulation.

  4. Deployment

    A team, a constituency to work, and the party behind you on the day you stand.

The party, on the record

Registration

Registered under Section 29A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951. Registration particulars are published in full rather than summarised.

Registration details

Election symbol

As a newly registered party we contest on a symbol drawn from the Election Commission free symbols list, allotted election by election.

See the symbol

Party constitution

Our constitution, including the declaration of allegiance to the Constitution of India, to socialism, secularism and democracy, is published in full.

Read the constitution

Questions people ask

Do I need political experience?

No. The course assumes you are starting from zero. Experience is welcome, it is simply not required.

Is there a fee?

Applying costs nothing. Any programme cost is stated in writing before you commit, with nothing hidden behind a later stage.

Do I have to contest an election?

No. Many people train to run a campaign, lead a digital team, or organise a district. Contesting is one path out of six.

How old do I have to be?

Eighteen, the same threshold as party membership across India. There is no upper limit.

What if I am already with another party?

Say so in your application. We will tell you plainly what is possible before you spend time on it.

Which states are you working in?

State teams are being built in stages. Apply with your district and you will hear where the nearest unit stands.

Somebody is going to take the seat.
It may as well be you.

Tell us where you are and what you would fix. Every application is read by a member of the state team.

join@rashtriyaindependent.org

A few honest lines is enough.

By applying you confirm you are a citizen of India aged eighteen or above. We handle your details as set out in our privacy notice.