Freethought Party of India (FPI) general secretary Biswanath Ramachandra (alias B Ramachandra CST Voltaire) filed his nomination papers for the Bhubaneswar Parliamentary constituency before the Khordha Collector on Tuesday. Party president Dr Bijayananda Kar and party Assembly candidates Swapna Bijayini (Ekamra-Bhubaneswar) and Nilamadhav Behera (both Jayadev and Bhubaneswar Central constituencies) were present.
The FPI has the “briefest” one-page electionmanifesto. It has five points to radically change the world in the direction of UtilitarianHumanism, Political Justice and Global Peace by Mixed Proportional Representation, prayer-less English medium education, priest-less love marriage, one-child family and a World Government democratically elected.