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A vote to Congress/TDP will go waste, Lok Satta warns GHMC voters

“A vote to the Congress is tantamount to a vote for the TDP, and a vote for the TDP is tantamount to a vote for the Congress.”

It is with this aggressive slogan the Lok Satta Party is plunging into the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections. The party will also make it clear to voters that failure to exercise their franchise will amount to silent endorsement of traditional parties, all of whom have let them down. The Lok Satta alone is committed to ushering in new politics in which the voter is empowered.

It may be recalled that certain traditional parties had tried to kill the infant Lok Satta Party in the 2009 general elections by maliciously propagating that a vote to the Lok Satta would be a wasted vote since it had no winning chances. After all, a party would win only when voters opted for it.

The Lok Satta Party is, therefore, focusing on rebutting the likely bad-mouthing to be indulged in by the traditional parties.

Unlike in a general election which involved the fate of a government, the voters in the GHMC election are concerned about their immediate problems like sanitation, drainage, water supply, traffic etc. The Lok Satta Party has come up with a credible and practicable agenda which envisages time-bound redressal of people’s grievances and all-round development of divisions by devolving powers, responsibilities and resources on division committees elected by people.

The party finalized its election campaign strategy at a meeting of the GHMC Committee and party workers who contested the general elections from the GHMC area. Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, party President, was in the chair.

Briefing the media on the decisions taken at the meeting, party spokesmen Katari Srinivasa Rao and V. Laxman Balaji said the party aimed at bagging at least one-third of the total votes polled. The party candidates would dispel the image that a corporator is one who goes about in white dress and dark glasses, displaying his muscle power. They would make it plain to the people that a corporator is a public servant and not their master.

The party which has already announced its candidates for 78 seats came out with the names of candidates for six more divisions. They are:

Sithapahlmandi – Naveen Kumar Gayar
Habsiguda – Hemant Vilas Mule
Patancheru – N. Sivakumar
Gowlipura – K. Bhaskara Rao
Punjagutta – M. Durga Kumar
Lalithabagh – P. Saireddy

Friday, October 30, 2009 - 18:06

Lok Satta gets 'whistle'

The State Election Commission has allotted the whistle symbol to the Lok Satta Party for contesting the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections.

Disclosing this to the media, party spokesmen Katari Srinivasa Rao and V. Laxman Balaji thanked the Election Commission for acting as an impartial facilitator in political parties’ efforts to reach the people. The party had contested the general elections earlier with the whistle symbol.

The party also released the third list of nine candidates contesting the GHMC elections. The divisions and the candidates are:

Mallapur – I. Sriramulu
Yousufguda – Md. Hasan
Borabanda – Swaroop Rani
Erragadda – A. Sankar Gowd
Ghansi Bazar – Renu Agarwal
Jiaguda – J. Sukanya
Langar Houz – Ramakanth
Kanchanbagh – B. Naveenkumar Sarma
Mehdipatnam – R. Manik Prabhu

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 18:00

Karnataka developments a threat To democracy: Dr. JP

Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today warned that attempts of money bags to dictate politics in Karnataka portended a threat to democracy and political parties. He wanted the two national parties – the Congress and the BJP – not to play with fire by succumbing to money power since it is a game that could be played all over India.

Addressing the media, Dr. JP said that Karnataka was witnessing unabashed and naked use of money power to destabilize the Government. Those who had enriched themselves as clients of the State were now emboldened to take reins of the Government into their hands. Those who create Frankenstein monsters should realize they would be gobbled up by them one day or the other.

Dr. JP wanted the two mainstream national parties to put an end to kleptocracy which had no place in democracy.

Describing the spectrum allocation by the Union Telecom Ministry as the biggest scam in India’s history, Dr. JP demanded that the concerned Minister be immediately sacked, the spectrum allocation revoked and fresh allocation made through international competitive bidding. The first come first serve policy followed by the Union Minister by arbitrarily changing the cutoff date had resulted in a loss of Rs.50000 crore to the Government of India and a couple of companies raking in Rs.15000 crore without providing evem a single mobile connection.

In reply to a question, Dr. JP said the Lok Satta Party was committed to honoring the six-point formula, the Presidential Order of 1975 and GO No. 610. He appealed to politicians not to fan flames of hatred by dividing people on regional lines. He welcomed the announcement of elections to the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation by pointing out that his party had filed a writ in the High Court seeking early elections. He took exception to the Chief Minister going on a spree of laying foundation stones while scores of schemes for which foundation stones had been laid languished for want of funds.

He described Telangana Telugu as picturesque and meaningful, and as the language of poet Pothana. To characterize it in any other way was an insult to Telangana people.

Party senior leader Katari Srinivasa Rao took part in the media meet.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 23:18

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