Debate- Is Politics inevitable in Rotary?

Rotary Club of Mulund Hills had organised a nice debate on the topic : Is Politics inevitable in Rotary?...at Kalidas on 7th October 2007..

For the sake of an argument there were two teams: Pro and anti statement. The arguers were nothing less than the PDGs from the Rotary Dist. 3140.

The two teams werw as follows:

Pro view: Ramesh Khanna (Team Leader), J.T.Vyas and Rahul Timbadia
Anti view: Jagdish Khanna (Team Leader), Suresh Rathod and Madhu Devdhar


DG Dr. Ulhas, in his implacable manner as usual, provided the perfect opening by giving a key note address.


The PDGs declared in the beginning only that they had taken a particular stand only for the sake of argument.


Argument and counter-argument, a game well played by the argumentative Indians, was worth witnessing it.

You can see a small clip of PDG Ramesh Khanna below:

Here's PDG Rtn. Suresh Rathod:

And, a fire-brand Madhu Devdhar:

PDG Rtn. Jagdish Khanna

At the end, however, everybody agreed that there should not be any politics in Rotary.

Well said PDGs!