Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta

Mehta was born in Surendranagar district, Gujarat on 6 July 1968.[8] He is the son of freedom fighter and Member of Parliament Chimanbhai Mehta.[2] He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a Bachelor of Technology in computer science and post graduated from Rutgers University, USA majoring in computer science.[2][9]

In 1990, Mehta moved to the United States in 1990 and worked as a software engineer for eight years.[9][3]

In 1990 Mehta observed that there were less corruption in Police, courts dispensed justice faster and the political culture was much better in United States and found that corruption in foreign countries was low because those in power could be held accountable.[3] In 1999 he returned to India and started campaigning for Right to Recall laws and to promote this idea, he floated Right to Recall group in 2006.[4]

Three years after forming the Right to Recall group, Mehta went on to form a political party to give publicity to these drafts of Right to Recall laws and the jury system by using election as a tool and in 2019 he founded Right to Recall Party and became its national president.[10][11][3]

RRP contested its first election as 2019 Indian general election[12] and fielded 14 candidates[13][14] in different Loksabha constituencies.

Mehta expressed his views on problems of India such as corruption of politician, bureaucrats, judges, police as well as unemployment etc. and gives the solution in the form of law drafts such as jury system in courts, Right to Recall laws over Prime minister and chief ministers, referendum rights to every citizen in his book vote vapsi dhan vapsi.[15]

He also proposed a citizen's dividend proposal in India in which two-thirds of the royalty payments from mining in India and Indian Telecom Spectrum Auction, as well as the rent collected from some public land would be dispensed as monthly payments to all Indians above the age of seven and the remaining one-third would be allocated for the Indian military.[16]

In November 2014, Mehta, who made the right to recall his plank while contesting in Gandhinagar Loksabha Constituency said that right to recall bill for rural voters drafted by Karnataka Government was inadequate and it was having a negative recall procedure and they should give a positive procedure in which gram sabha finds a candidate who is better than the one elected.[25]

In July 2019, Mehta attended a National Consultation Meeting against EVMs – Back to Ballot Paper, held at the Constitution Club, New Delhi as a technical expert and showed that the EVMs-VVPATs can be subverted and are clearly pre-programmable. [26]

In October 2019, Mehta made an allegation on electronic voting in India. He published an advertisement in The Indian Express explaining how electronic voting machines (EVMs) in India can be rigged. He claimed malicious codes can be entered in the machine to change the results that the EVM shows. In the advertisement he explained how the voter-verified paper audit trail (VVPAT) can steal votes. He proposed a solution of either a colourless, transparent VVPAT machine, or no EVM at all.[5]

In November 2015 Sandesh (Indian newspaper) published a news article on Mehta in which they claimed that Mehta got funds worth crores of rupees from abroad in his 9 trusts.[27] Although Mehta denied all these allegations.[28]

In February 2020 it was alleged that 70 registered unrecognized parties including the Right to Recall Party received funds via electoral bonds.[29] Mehta claimed that his party didn't have a bank account when they received the letter from the Election Commission of India,[30] and they had submitted a nil donation report to the ECI.[31]

In 2009 Mehta wrote a book titled as Praja Adheen Raja.[32] After that in 2020 he wrote another book titled as Vote Vapsi Dhan Vapsi. It is also the manifesto of Right to Recall Party, which claims the law draft based solution of problems such as corruption, unemployment, increasing foreign domination etc. in India. [15][33]

• Right to Recall Party

• Rahul Chimanbhai Mehta Official website