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Loksatta releases second list, keeping its doors open for electoral tie-ups
Even as it maintained that its doors are still open for electoral adjustments with the TDP and the BJP, the Loksatta Party this evening released its second list of candidates for 29 Assembly and three Lok Sabha seats in Telangana.
In the first list, the party had named candidates for 14 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat in Telangana.
Releasing the second list at a media conference, Loksatta Party State President Katari Srinivasa Rao said the party has been forced to announce its candidates as the time for filing nominations in Telangana is running out. The party will release its third list either tonight or tomorrow. The list will include Assembly seats like Kukatpally and Qutbullapur for which there are a number of aspirants.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao said that the party has so far not received an appropriate response to its proposals for electoral adjustments. The party would like to enter into adjustments based on its past electoral performance and the growing support to the party from first time voters.
In case electoral adjustments materialize even at the last hour, some of the party candidates will withdraw from the field abiding by party discipline.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao said that elections provide a great opportunity to take its agenda to people, whether there are electoral adjustments or not.
With today’s announcement, the Loksatta Party is fielding candidates in 4 Lok Sabha and 43 Assembly seats in Telangana.
It is planning to field candidates in 13 Lok Sabha and 75 Assembly seats in residuary Andhra Pradesh, according to a decision taken by the party coordination committee which met in Guntur today. The list will be released later.
Loksatta Party leaders Bandaru Ramamohan Rao, V. Vijayender Reddy, Nandipet Ravinder, Dr. P. R. Rao and Mrs. K. Gita Murthy took part in the media conference.
The following are the constituencies and candidates named by the party today:
MP Constituency/District | Assembly Constituency | Name of the Candidate |
Malkajigiri | Uppal | Bandaru Rammohan Rao |
Secunderabad Cantonment | Dasari Ratnam | |
Secunderabad | Amberpet | Jagan Mohan Letla |
Chevella | Maheshwaram | Devi Prasad S |
Nizamabad | Kamareddy | Padma Chandra Sekhar |
Jukkal | A.K.Lata | |
Balkonda | Badri Ananth | |
Nizamabad Urban | Dodla Sekhar | |
Medak | Patancheru | Sudhir Reddy |
Sanga Reddy | Madhav Reddy | |
Mahaboob Nagar | Mahabub Nagar | Gouse Moinuddin |
Shadnagar | Dr.Narendra | |
Nalgonda | Miryalaguda | Srinivas Reddy |
Kodad | Govind Rao | |
Tungaturthy | Srinivas Rao | |
Huzur Nagar | Krishna Naik Bukya | |
Warangal | Warangal West | Chandrasekhar |
Warangal East | Jagadeeshwar Rao | |
Vardhannapet | Jatti Ravi | |
Mahabubabad | Moolchand | |
Karimnagar | Siricilla | Samvardhani |
Ramagundam | Dr.G.Maheshwar | |
Korutla | V.Bhumanandam | |
Karimnagar | Vamshi Krishna | |
Adilabad | Bellampalli | Rammohan Rao |
Chennur | Mekala Saroja | |
Hyderabad | Ibrahimpatnam | Malla Reddy |
Caravan | Saibaba | |
Malakpet | A.Hanumantha Rao | |
Parliament | ||
Secunderabad | Secunderabad MP | Rohit Kumar Parasa |
Warangal | Mahabubabad MP | Ravinder Naik |
Chevella | Chevella MP | Enugu Rama Rao |
Vote for Loksatta to transform Economy & politics: Dr.JP
Loksatta Party national President today appealed to people to elect him to the Lok Sabha and help him in his mission to revive the economy wrecked by 10 years of UPA rule, transform the nature of politics and ensure fulfilment of assurances given by the Government of India in the wake of Andhra Pradesh’s bifurcation.
Dr. JP was addressing a gathering of party workers shortly before he filed his nomination papers for contesting to the Lok Sabha from Malkajigiri in Hyderabad. He garlanded the portraits of Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar at the party headquarters before leaving for the office of the Ranga Reddy Collector for filing the nomination.
Dr. JP said that the country would face a bleak future if at least a crore of jobs are not created every year for the next 10 years. While China created one crore jobs a year in the manufacturing sector and became the workshop of the world, not even one lakh jobs were created in the manufacturing sector in India in the last ten years of UPA rule. “We are exporting jobs and enriching China by importing everything ranging from mobile phones to crackers even as Indian youth languished for want of jobs. The day is not far off when we import even our national flags made in China. If God were to appear before me and ask me to name a wish, I will say jobs, jobs and jobs for youth.”
Dr. JP said the present electoral system needed a drastic overhaul since it enables only the moneyed to enter legislatures and denies an opportunity to those with competence, integrity and vision.
Again, in the wake of the bifurcation of united Andhra Pradesh, the Union Government had given a number of assurances based on Loksatta’s road map to ensure a bright future for people of both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Unlike other parties which indulged in double speak and fanned regional animosities in their pursuit of vote banks, the Loksatta fought for an amicable solution and succeeded in wresting a number of assurance from the Government of India. He would ensure that the Government of India honoured all its commitments if elected to the Lok Sabha.
Dr. JP recalled that the Loksatta both as a movement and political party has been the driving force behind a number of reforms although it does not have a single member in Parliament. The reforms relate to voter enrolment, disclosure of criminal antecedents of contestants in elections, curbs on defection of legislators, a ceiling on the size of ministries, and disclosure of election expenditure by parties and candidates and political donations. The Lok Satta is largely responsible for the launching of the National Rural Health Mission, enactment of laws on right to information, establishment of village courts and autonomy for cooperatives, and lifting of the ban on food grain exports. Its initiatives on judicial appointments, amendments to the anti corruption law and guaranteeing services to citizens are all in the pipeline. The Lokpal Act enacted by Parliament is on the lines suggested by the Loksatta.
The Loksatta could achieve so much in so short a time because it enjoyed credibility among leaders cutting across party lines. If elected to the Loksatta he would fight with redoubled vigour for changing the very grammar of politics and ensuring a bright future for all Indians. He pledged to fight for a per capita grant of Rs.1000 to every village panchayat and ward in urban areas in the entire country so that local elected officials can address people’s needs without depending on the mercy of MLAs, MPs and Ministers. He pointed out that as an MLA from Kukatpally he could get works worth a record Rs.1550 crore launched in his constituency.
Dr. JP underlined that he had taken a pledge early in life to devote all his energy and talent for bright a future for the country and never strayed from it as an IAS officer or founder of the Loksatta movement and the Loksatta Party. If given an opportunity as a Member of Parliament, he would devote the last stage of his active life to ensure a bright future for all Indians. “I had never urged even my mother to serve me food; but I am seeking your votes now so that I can be your voice in Parliament.”
Earlier, Lok Satta Party State President Katari Srinivasa Rao said that electing Dr. JP to the Lok Sabha is a historic necessity at the present juncture of the country’s development. Movie director S. S. Rajamouli pointed out that Dr. JP who lent dignity to Assembly proceedings will earn recognition and reputation for Telugu speaking people. Mr. Bandaru Ramamohan Rao, Convener of the party’s Telangana Coordination Committee, spoke.
Party workers lustily cheered Dr. JP with claps, whistles and slogans as he made his impassionate speech.