Principles & discussion rules

Entrenched principles

1. No community is a terrorist. No caste is an oppressor by birth. Every Indian stands before the law as an individual.
2. Criticism stays symmetric across parties. Criticise policies and parties, never private individuals.
3. Fundamental rights in the Constitution of India are not traded away.
4. The self-dissolution pledge: if the founder loses, they never contest again; if the party wins, it dissolves after five years.
5. Every donor is public, every rupee spent is accounted for, and no foreign money is accepted.

How a reform develops

HRP publishes every reform open for discussion, taking concerns, evidence and questions. Approval needs a published note. Members can contest an approved reform at any time. HRP may reopen it as Contested after reviewing those contests. Every revision and stage change has a dated history entry.

How we discuss

This is a place to learn and grow together. Good discussion here follows a few simple habits.

• Keep it civil. Disagree with ideas, never with the people who hold them.
• No idea is a bad idea to raise. If you are wondering about something, others probably are too.
• Share a source for every claim and idea, so others can check it and build on it.
• Never harass, mock or belittle anyone, here or anywhere else, for what they wrote.
• Everyone makes mistakes, including HRP. Point one out kindly, with a source, and never shame anyone for it. If you got something wrong, say so and keep going: you are still welcome in the discussion.
• Change your mind openly when the evidence changes. That is how a manifesto improves.
• Raise a concern, bring evidence or ask a question. On open problems, share an idea instead of a concern. Use Support to express agreement.
• Evidence needs an HTTPS source link. Keep concerns and questions to 20–800 characters, and evidence and ideas to 20–1,200 characters.
• Comments are checked when you post them. Those that pass appear straight away; anything that might be spam, abuse, hate or an allegation against a named person waits for a moderator first. Official replies are marked HRP.
• Any member can add an open problem. It is reviewed before it appears, and it is shown without your name.
• No threats, doxxing, personal attacks, communal or caste hate, or unverified allegations against named people.
• Use a display name or pseudonym. Only your display name and, if you choose, your state appear publicly.

Proposing a reform

Any member can propose a reform with the proposal template. Each proposal is private between its author and HRP reviewers, and its author follows the review in their profile.

The template asks for these sections. The first four are required, along with at least one source:

1. Abstract. Two or three sentences anyone could repeat: the problem and your fix.
2. Problem statement. What is broken, who it affects, since when, and how big it is. Use numbers where you can.
3. Evidence. The facts behind the problem. Point each claim to a source below, for example [1].
4. Detailed solution. What exactly changes: laws, rules, institutions or budgets, and who does what.
5. Implementation plan. Steps, a timeline, and which level of government acts: Union, state or local.
6. Cost and funding. A rough estimate and where the money comes from. Say what you don't know.
7. Similar policies elsewhere. Other countries or Indian states that tried this, and what happened. Failures teach as much as successes.
8. Trade-offs and who loses. Every reform has costs. Who pays or loses power, and why it is still worth doing.
9. Alternatives considered. Other ways to solve the problem, and why you prefer this one.
10. Risks and safeguards. How this could be misused or go wrong, and what would prevent that.
11. Measuring success. The numbers that should change, by how much and by when.
12. Open questions. What you are unsure about, or want reviewers to check.

A proposal moves through these stages. HRP explains every request for changes and every decision in a note to the author:

Accepted ideas become draft reforms and go through the same discussion as every other reform. Ideas are published without names.

Moderation record

Comments that pass an automatic check are published at once, and HRP can still remove them. Anything the check flags, and every new problem and proposal, is reviewed by a person first. The public record reports monthly counts by reason. Rejected text and private member details are never published.

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