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Lok Satta forms Legal Cell

The Lok Satta Party has formed a legal cell to help people avail themselves of Government services legally and provide them free legal assistance especially in matters involving public interest.

Announcing this at a media meet, party spokesman V. Laxman Balaji said that noted lawyer CVL Narasimha Rao would be the State convener of the Legal Cell. The party also named some district legal cell conveners.

Mr. Narasimha Rao said that apart from filing public interest litigation in cases of injustice to public, the legal cell would strive for the conduct of ‘lok adalats’ in Government offices and promotion of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. Those who require legal assistance are welcome to contact party offices or send an email to info@loksattaparty.com.

The following have been named district legal cell conveners: Krishna – Ch. Krishna Rao, Warangal – V. Shyam Krishna, Adilabad – S. Bhujanga Rao, Kurnool – M. Anjaneyulu, Anantapur – M. Manohar Naidu, Medak – M. Sridhar Rao, Renuka, S. Karunakar, Visakhapatnam – Mrs. Rani, Imandi Srinivasa Rao, Chittoor – V. Jayakumar Reddy, Nellore – K. Ravi Kumar, Vizianagaram – G. Appala Naidu, Srikakulam – Kuna Mohana Rao, Secunderabad (GHMC) – G. Nandagopal and Khammam – Vannala Srinivas.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 16:28

NRI campaign for Lok Satta

Around 30 Lok Satta supporters in the U. S. made calls to 3000 households in the Tekkali Assembly constituency appealing to them to vote for the Lok Satta in the by-elections.

Their message is that while traditional parties are trying to influence voters with short-term benefits or benefit from the sympathy wave, they are utilizing the opportunity to spread Lok Satta policies as in the 2009 general elections.

Mr. Sai Tej Kambampati, an industrial Engineer, who spent six hours tele-campaiging one night, says that everything is not about winning elections. Their aim is to take the Lok Satta closer to people.

Mr. Ramgopal Madarapu, a software engineer, who has been calling twenty people a day, says that calling a few thousand people of the one lakh voters took them around 200 man hours.

Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 14:32

Take swine flu seriously, urges Lok Satta

The State Government has not woken up to the threat of swine flu sweeping Andhra Pradesh as a pandemic, the Lok Satta Party charged today.

Talking to the media, party spokesmen Katari Srinivasa Rao and V. Laxman Balaji referred to the warning from the Union Health Minister that one-third of India’s people were likely to be affected by the virus, and from the World Health Organization that lakhs of people were likely to die and said our efforts at meeting the threat were highly inadequate, to say the least. An increase of a mere 10 beds in intensive care units of Government hospitals in districts was hardly sufficient.

The spokesmen underlined the need for massive procurement of drugs which are indigenously produced and import of anti swine flu vaccines from abroad to take the threat head on. The Government should prioritize the distribution of drugs so that the most vulnerable were attended to first.

The Lok Satta leaders said that the flu had resulted in more than 2800 deaths world wide and 100 in India. WHO in its recent statement warned that there had been a steep hike in the number of swine flu deaths. Health experts held out the possibility of the virus mutating and swine flu breaking out in a more virulent form.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 16:48

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