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CBI should inquire into nexus between politicians And mining leases: Lok Satta

The CBI should be asked to inquire into the nexus between politicians and grant of mining leases, the Lok Satta Party demanded here today.

Commenting on Chief Minister K. Rosaiah’s offer to resign if the TDP got a single seat more than the Congress in the GHMC elections, Lok Satta Party spokesmen Mr. YD Ramarao, Katari Srinivasarao, V. Lakshman Balaji said the challenge was irrelevant. The controversy over the Obulapuram Mining Company should not be reduced to a slanging match between the Congress and the TDP. It involved the exploitation of precious but depleting natural resources costing thousands of crores of rupees.

The Lok Satta demanded that the Government straightway cancel all the mining leases and call for competitive international bidding in the interests of the State and the nation.

The CBI, the party hoped, would naturally look into the Central Empowered Committee’s findings on the OMC.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 20:40

Your future lies in your vote, say NRIs

The NRI wing of the Lok Satta Party, ‘People for Lok Satta,’ has appealed to voters in Hyderabad to exercise their franchise in the GHMC elections on Monday, November 23, without fail as their voting determines their living conditions in the city for the next five years.

‘People for Lok Satta’ in an open letter to the voters of Hyderabad said, “Although we live in alien lands, our hearts beat for people in our motherland. We are distressed at the state of affairs in Andhra Pradesh where criminal elements and land grabbers have been coming to power by squandering ill-gotten money and preventing good elements from making a mark by launching a campaign of calumny. The voters have now the opportunity to change the situation for better by deploying the vote weapon in their hands.”

The NRIs appealed to the people of Hyderabad to vote only for those with character, integrity and competence and save their city from awful governance.

Lok Satta Party leaders Y. D. Rama Rao, Katari Srinivasa Rao and V. Laxman Balaji released the NRI’s letter from New Jersey to the media. The letter was signed by Prasad Gattu, Manasa Mahati, Mahesh, Putta Ratnakar, Dandeboyina Nagaraju, Suresh Yediga, Ramanaidu, Prasanna, Srinivas Ranabothula, Solipuram Raghava and Vijay Reddy.

Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan will be casting his vote at 10-00 a.m. in the polling station at Shiekhpet Tahsildar’s office on Road No. 2, Banjara Hills.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 20:39

Invisible force behind charges Against Lok Satta

The Lok Satta Party today charged that an invisible force has been using expelled party members as pawns in its conspiracy to dent the growing popularity of the Lok Satta in the GHMC elections.

Talking to the media, the Lok Satta leaders recalled that Mrs. Akula Maharani who had filed a defamation case against TDP Chandrababu Naidu for his baseless allegations against Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan a few months ago had now chosen to mount similar false charges against Dr. JP.

Mr. Y. D. Rama Rao, Mr. Katari Srinivasa Rao and Mr. V. Laxman Balaji pointed out that parties which had no credible agenda are trying their best to discredit the Lok Satta Party by deploying members expelled from the party. They had been holding media conferences to spew venom on Dr. JP. And on Sunday, pamphlets deriding Dr. JP were distributed along with newspapers in Chandanagar division. The party is registering a case against the anonymous people who brought out the pamphlets.

They disclosed that the party leadership, in tune with its democratic functioning, had delayed announcing its mayoral candidate for a week so as to arrive at a consensus.

Sunday, November 22, 2009 - 20:37

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