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Lok Satta to gear up for Municipal elections

The Lok Satta Party has constituted a 14-member committee under the chairmanship of Mr. DVVS Varma to galvanize the party for contesting municipal elections all over the State. The committee will monitor the mass contact program based on peoples’ problems at the municipality level.

Briefing the media today on the decisions taken by the party’s Working Committee yesterday, party spokesmen Katari Srinivasa Rao and V. Laxman Balaji said that the party would appoint a team leader in every municipality and party in-charges in 50-60 identified Assembly constituencies to undertake enrolment of executive members and work for resolution of people’s problems.

The party decided to identify 1000 small towns in the State and launch a movement for the formation of local governments. The problems of the towns and the resources would be displayed on hoardings to educate and mobilize people for a concerted movement.

The party decided to constitute district committees after the top leadership had an exchange of views with the 14 people tentatively chosen for each district by party observers. The committees for Srikakulam, Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, East and West Godavari would be finalized at a meeting at Visakhapatnam on August 29.

The party also decided to train five resource persons from every Assembly constituency in Hyderabad and to strive to open a citizens’ service center in every constituency.

Memo to Human Rights Commission:

Meanwhile, the State Mahila Satta leaders today represented to the Chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Mr. Justice Subhashini Reddy, to take steps for closure of belt shops and toddy outlets both of which are selling adulterated stuff and playing with people’s lives.

The Mahila Satta pointed out that successive Governments had been promoting liquor and toddy consumption by all means treating them as sources of revenue, unmindful of the fact that already 70 lakh families had been ruined by liquor addition.

In response to the people’s agitation against the liquor menace, the Government had formed a committee ostensibly to liberate them from the evil. But the committee remained a mute spectator to the growing consumption of intoxicants.

Friday, August 21, 2009 - 17:54

Lok Satta to reorganize Municipal units

The State Working Committee of the Lok Satta Party today decided to take on the traditional parties in the municipal elections scheduled for September 2010 by strengthening its leadership at the municipality level and launching a mass contact program based on people’s problems.

Giving this information at a media conference, party spokesmen Katari Srinivasa Rao and Mr. V. Laxman Balaji and party Vice President Bhisetty Babji said that the action plan envisaged reorganization of municipal party committees between August 25 and September 15, enrolment of executive members and making the party self-sufficient financially. The party would launch a door-to-door campaign on the corruption that is playing havoc with resolving people’s problems ranging from drinking water, sanitation and pollution to traffic and roads. A State-level leader will be associated with two municipalities each in these efforts. On December 9, World Anti Corruption Day, the party will launch a program throughout the State. Meanwhile, attempts will be made to associate Mahila Satta and Yuva Satta members with the Lok Satta programs.

The Lok Satta leaders disclosed the Working Committee discussed the defections being engineered by the traditional parties in the name of schemes like ‘Aakarsh’ and ‘Vikarsh’. The party felt that the two traditional parties, pursuing power-oriented politics, were mired in a crisis for want of ideological and moral foundations. Since they lacked an agenda that appealed to the public, they were trying to undermine other parties. Those who got elected by splurging money and liquor were turning to traditional parties in their bid to recoup their investments.

The goings on in the traditional parties once again underlined the need for ethics in politics and all people concerned with their future and that of the country rallying behind the Lok Satta.

Mr. DVVS Varma, Vice President, presided over the meeting before party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan took over.

Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 17:36

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