Press Releases Archive

Lok Satta Party names candidates for Tirupati and Anantapur

The Lok Satta Party today announced that Mr. Maddipatla Siddaiah Naidu (47), a former defense employee, will contest the by-election to the Assembly from Tirupati and Dr. Kondeti Kondaiah (48) from Anantapur.

Announcing this at a media conference, Lok Satta Party leaders Katari Srinivasa Rao, V. Laxman Balaji and P. Bhaskara Rao criticized the Chief Minister sharply for allocating public resources to boost Congress party prospects in by-elections. The State funding the Congress election campaign is blatant abuse of power, they added. Adding insult to injury, the Government is nominating party workers to execute e works without calling for tenders.

The Lok Satta leaders appealed to the electorate to ponder whether they should vote for parties which instead of addressing people's problems in legislatures sought to disrupt them. By voting for the Lok Satta, people should demonstrate they are thirsting for a change in political culture.

They pointed out that the by-elections have been foisted upon people by parties merely to serve their leaders' personal agenda.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 20:04

Lok Satta tribute to Satyamurthy

The Lok Satta Party expressed its condolences over the death of Mr. K. G. Satyamurthy, one of the founders of the People's War Group.

Mr. Katari Srinivasa Rao, Lok Satta Party General Secretary, said in a media statement today that Mr. Satyamurthy was reputed not merely as a revolutionary leader but also as a poet who inspired party workers.

A Dalit by birth who endured untouchability, he sought to address the caste factor in Indian polity unto his last.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 19:35

Building a casteless society is real Tribute to Ambedkar: Dr.JP

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary should be an occasion for everyone to pledge himself or herself for a building a casteless society in which all children, irrespective of the accident of birth in a certain caste, can realize their true potential and compete with the son of a collector or the daughter of a minister, said Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan here today.

Addressing a gathering after garlanding Ambedkar’s statue nearTank Bund, Dr. JP said that regarding Dr. Ambedkar as only a Dalit leader amounts to doing great injustice to a national leader who strove to preserve national unity and eradicate caste.

Dr. JP congratulated the State Government on constituting a Cabinet sub-committee on implementation of the sub-plan for SCs and STs and hoped the Government would create mechanisms necessary for productively utilizing the funds meant for downtrodden sections.

At the Lok Satta Party headquarters, party leaders Eeda Chennayya, V. Laxman Balaji, Katari Srinivasa Rao, Bandaru Ramamohana Rao, M. Satyanarayana, P. Sivaji and J. Krishna Rao paid floral tributes to Ambedkar. They said that paying a real tribute to Ambedkar lies in fighting against social evils and not merely in installing statues and garlanding them. It is to empower Dalits politically that the Lok Satta has been demanding proportional representation in elected bodies, they said.

Saturday, April 14, 2012 - 17:09

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