Blow the whistle and change history: Dr. JP

“Blow the whistle and help transform history”, appealed Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan here today. “You are the heroes in your real life and the power to transform the country lies solely in your hands.”


Releasing the fourth list of party candidates to contest 37 Assembly and seven Lok Sabha seats, Dr. JP disclosed that 95 percent of the party candidates belonged to middle classes and poorer sections. “They are candidates who will never be entertained by traditional parties which think they can swing the voters in their favor with money and liquor”. Dr. JP added most of the Lok Satta candidates cannot spend even the expenditure stipulated by the Election Commission, leave alone exceeding it.


The Lok Satta has so far released the names of 152 candidates to contest the elections to the Assembly and 13 to the Lok Sabha. In addition, it has left 14 seats to be contested by the Backward Classes’ United Front, with which the party has entered into an electoral understanding.


Welcoming the Supreme Court directive to the Election Commission to allot a common symbol to the Lok Satta Party, Dr. JP said the party has chosen whistle as its election symbol deliberately. The common man can now blow the whistle and break his silence. “After all, elections are about the future of our children and us and not about the fortunes of political parties and their leaders. You vote for the Lok Satta Party so that you can hold the reins of power in your hands.”


Dr. JP said that unlike traditional parties, the Lok Satta Party viewed political power only as a means to promote people’s welfare and not as an end to promote the interests of parties and their leaders.


Conveying his greetings to people on the Telugu New Year, Dr. JP hoped that the New Year would witness new blood entering politics and transforming the country. He wished Junior NTR, who was injured in a road accident, speedy recovery.


Vanga Sai Aditya, a nine-year-old student of Class III in Dwaraka St. Peter’s School, Ashok Nagar, donated his kiddy bank collection of Rs.340 to the Lok Satta Party. His mother, Yashoda, is a reporter in Andhra Prabha daily and father, Bhumeshwar, a Gemini News reporter.


The following is the list of candidates released today.

MLA Candidates List

Sl.No.	Name	Constituency	Dist
1	K Chalapathi Rao	Asifabad	Adilabad
2	T Srinivas	Mancherial	Adilabad
3	Ponduri Narsa Reddy	Nirmal	Adilabad
4	Hemanth Kumar Jaiswal	Goshamahal	GHMC
5	Nakkaboina Veerendrababu	YadavYakutpura	GHMC
6	Mohd Ishaq Khan	Nampally	GHMC
7	V R Vijayaramaraju	Cantonment	GHMC
8	K Dharma Reddy	Malkajgiri	GHMC
9	M Vidyasagar Rao	Jagityala	Karimnagar
10	Toeti Babu	Choppadandi	Karimnagar
11	Jaipal Reddy	Husnabad	Karimnagar
12	Tangada Anil Kumar	Ramagundam	Karimnagar
13	Bekkam Ramreddy	Mahaboobnagar	Mahaboobnagar
14	P.Vishnuvardhan Reddy	Kollapur	Mahaboobnagar
15	K Venkateswarlu	Achampet	Mahaboobnagar
16	Kodati Suhasini	Andole	Medak
17	Dr I Pratap Kumar	Zaheerabad	Medak
18	M Venkatreshwarlu	Miryalaguda	Nalgonda
19	Nenavath. Rambabu Nayak	Devarakonda	Nalgonda
20	Arukonda Latchaiah	Munugodu	Nalgonda
21	Ramu	Santanootalapadu	Prakasam
22	Enduri Lakshma Reddy	Pargi	Ranga Reddy
23	Chandrasheker Patnaik	Tekkali	Srikakulam
24	P. Mohan Rao	Pathapatnam	Srikakulam
25	G. Appala Naidu	Echarla	Srikakulam
26	D Adinarayana	Rajam	Srikakulam
27	Rai Padmavathi	Nellimarla	Vijayanagaram
28	S J Mariyamma	Saluru	Vijayanagaram
29	J Sailaja	Visakha (S)	Visakhapatnam
30	Avula Govardhan Reddy	Visakha (W)	Visakhapatnam
31	BVV Satyanarayana Murthy	Pendurthi	Visakhapatnam
32	Nagavenkata Suryanarayana	Narsipatnam	Visakhapatnam
33	G Narayana Murthy	Chodavaram	Visakhapatnam
34	BVVS Ganapathi Rao	Yalamanchili	Visakhapatnam
35	Ravindra Gopal	Narsampet	Warangal
36	K Sujatha Rao	Palakurthy	Warangal
37	Alluri Seetharama Raju	Bheemavaram	West Godavari

MP Candidates List

1	Dr M.T. Venkateshwarlu	Vishaka
2	Mallesh Ravinder Reddy	Zaheerabad
3	Vallepu Venkata Narsinga Rao	Warangal
4	Vidya Sagar	Nagar Kurnool
5	Ramavath Lingaiah Nayak	Nalgonda
6	DSR Chowdary	Nizamabad
7	Racha Subhadra Reddy	Bhongir