Lok Satta Party nominates Pratibha Rao

The Lok Satta Party (LSP) has nominated G Pratibha Rao for the newly- created Jubilee Hills Assembly seat. The US-returned Pratibha Rao helped establish the LV Prasad Eye Institute and also served as executive editor of the `Indian Journal of Ophthalmology’ before plunging into politics. A founding member of the LSP, Pratibha Rao said her focus would be mainly on the fundamental issues affecting the day-to-day life of the residents in the constituency. Announcing her future plan of action a...
Published about 06-03-2009 | Rated +1

Complaints against Bribe

If any employee of central government dept/Nationalsised Banks/PSU demands bribe or idulging in curruption plz inform CBI office HYD -- 040-24732768 CBI office Vizag --0891-2783333...
Submitted by Jagan | Rated +1

Lok Satta against ban on live coverage Of Assembly proceedings

The Lok Satta today opposed the move to put an end to the live TV coverage of Assembly proceedings taking the incidents in the Assembly on Wednesday as a pretext. Briefing the media, Lok Satta Party Vice President Iramamurthy and Secretary J. Geeta Murthy said that notwithstanding the abuse of the proceedings to promote partisan political interests by different parties, live coverage would help people evaluate their representatives’ performance. The Lok Satta pointed out that the issue...
Published about 16-02-2009 | Rated +3

Committee on Telangana an Eye-wash: Lok Satta

The Chief Minister’s statement in the Assembly on constituting a committee on Telangana is aimed at reaping electoral advantage and not at respecting people’s sentiments, said the Lok Satta Party here today. The Congress, which had contested the 2004 elections on the Telangana plank in alliance with the TRS, is now forced to go it alone because it did not bother to fulfill its promises on Telangana. Unable to answer the people in Telangana, the party is seeking a face-saver, party Vice P...
Published about 16-02-2009 | Rated +1

Railway investments in infrastructure Inadequate: Dr. JP

Railway investments in infrastructure have not been growing in tune with the growth in the economy, said Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan here today. As a result 80% of the freight is being moved by roads and only 20% by rail. Road traffic is expensive, pollutes the environment and results in innumerable accidents and heavy damage to roads. Commenting on the railway budget, Dr. JP said that successive Governments have added only some 10,000 km of railway track since the co...
Published about 16-02-2009 | Rated +1

Lok Satta movement to work for political change

The Lok Satta movement will be enlightening the people on the need for changing the nature of politics during its second phase. Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan, the founder of the Lok Satta movement, and now President of the Lok Satta Party recalled that the NGO accomplished a number of reforms ranging from voter registration at post offices to disclosure of poll contestants’ criminal antecedents and from the Right to Information Act to the Gram Nayalaya Act. “But people’s living conditions ...
Published about 16-02-2009 | Rated +2

Contact information of Lok Satta Karnataka Office bearers

The silent majority of people who are fed up with the present day political culture and yearning for change will have a platform of their own with the formal launching of the Karnataka unit of the Lok Satta Party on Thursday, February 5. Traditional political parties and politicians have turned the once noble profession of politics into a privately or family-owned lucrative business. Acquiring power at any cost has become the single point program of most politicians as it facilitates per...
Submitted by Krishna | Rated +2

Corporate Employees Behind Lok Satta

The word Lok Satta refers to the one and only Jayaprakash Narayan and when it is JP then it has got to be the educated and the urban folks. It is now being said that for the forthcoming elections there are many corporate employees who are said to be joining hands to give support to Jayaprakash. Apparently, a corporate employee union is said to have been formed for promoting the Lok Satta party and the agenda is to get the employees to come and vote. While such unions do not really have any fo...
Submitted by Krishna | Rated +7

Government to blame for High School drop-outs

The Lok Satta Party said today that the number of school dropouts in Andhra Pradesh has gone up because of Government’s attempts to withdraw from the field and encourage the private sector. “The Government is guilty of criminal negligence”, charged Lok Satta Party’s Organizational Affairs Convener B. Ramamohana Rao and Working Committee member Laxman Balaji referring to the increase in the percentage of dropouts from 5.42 to 6.88. Pointing out that education played a key role in eradi...
Published about 26-01-2009 | Rated +2

Lok Satta to unveil district governments on Jan. 23

The Lok Satta Party will be unveiling district governments on January 23, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhashchandra Bose, who had served as Calcutta Mayor and underlined the importance of local governments. Disclosing this to the media here today, party Working Committee members Laxman Balaji and V. Vijayender Reddy said that on that day the party would organize a function at district headquarters and announce a district cabinet comprising a premier and 11 ministers. Apart from hoisting ...
Published about 26-01-2009 | Rated +2