People are thirsting for change in Nature of politics: Dr.JP

Loksatta Party national President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today asserted that people in urban areas of both Telangana and residuary Andhra Pradesh who are seething with indignation over traditional parties will vote for the Loksatta Party in the upcoming general elections.

Addressing a media conference at which he released the names of candidates contesting for 45 Assembly seats in Telangana, Dr. JP said the party is concentrating on urban areas where it enjoys considerable support. The party will release the list of candidates contesting from residuary Andhra Pradesh on April 12. The party is contesting only from Malkajgiri for the Lok Sabha.

Dr. JP recalled that the movement to transform the nature of politics and cleanse democracy began at Kukatpally in 2009 when he was elected to the Assembly. The democratic revolution manifested subsequently in Delhi and is now about to be repeated in urban areas, especially in Hyderabad.

Dr. JP said that traditional parties have converted politics into business. They sell seats and buy votes, both involving astronomical amounts. They are bent on coming to power by offering temporary sops or monetary inducements or by exploiting loyalties to caste, region, religion and language. The people, he said, are fed up with such tactics of traditional parties.

Dr. JP appealed to voters to reject unequivocally all those who flaunt their money bags or lineage, those who are steeped in corruption or have criminal antecedents and those who offer inducement or seek to divide them on the basis of caste, religion, region and language. They should vote for candidates who will work for a better future for the two States now coming up. He pointed out that the Loksatta Party is fielding educated candidates known for their integrity and commitment to service. A majority of them are young, most of them being in their 20s and 30s. Of the 45 Loksatta candidates 19 are BCs, six SCs, two STs and four women.

Dr. JP said in reply to a question that traditional parties have not responded to the Loksatta initiative for electoral adjustments because they perceive the party as threat to their very existence.

Dr. JP who filed his nomination for the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha seat yesterday said that the Lok Satta has decided to support the NDA in national interest. The country’s economy is in doldrums and polity in disarray. The need of the hour is employment generation and good governance. If a crore of jobs are not created every year for the next ten years, the very survival of India will be doubtful. Against such a backdrop, the BJP and its prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi have been laying emphasis on reviving the economy by focusing on manufacturing and providing corruption-free governance. Although the Loksatta has differences with one or two aspects of the BJP manifesto, it has decided to support it in national interest.

Loksatta Party leaders Katari Srinivasa Rao, Bandaru Ramamohan Rao, Y. D. Rama Rao and Ramachandraiah took part in the media conference.

The following is the list of candidates for the general elections in Telangana:

Lok Satta Party Candidates (Telangana Region)

 

Constituency / District	Sl.No	Constituency	Name of the Candidate	Gender/Age	Qualification	Community
Malkajigiri	1	Malkajigiri Parliament	Dr.Jayaprakash Narayan	M	IAS, MBBS	OC
	2	Malkajigiri	Dilip Sankarreddy	M/32	MBA (Unv.of Chicago)	OC
	3	Uppal	Venkateshwar Reddy Kallu	M/39	MBA (London)	OC
	4	LB Nagar	Ramu Dosapati	M/41	MBA	BC
	5	Qutubullapur	Shivaji Raju Pothuri	M/31	B.Com	OC
	6	Kukatpalli	Katari Srinivasa Rao	M/44	MCA	BC
	7	Cantonment	D.Ratnam	M		SC
	8	Medchal	Dr.G.R.Lingamurthy	M	MBBS
Secunderabad	9	Sanathnagar	Hymavati Sagi	F/39	MS (USA)	OC
	10	Jubilee Hills	B.Sambi Reddy	M/35	B.Tech	OC
	11	Musheerabad	P.Rohit Kumar	M/40	B.A., L.L.B., (LLM)	BC
	12	Khairatabad	Durga Ramachandra Rao	M/41	PG Diploma in Fashion Tech	OC
	13	Amberpet	Metla Jaganmohan	M/43	Degree	BC
	14	Nampalli	Kanthimathi	F/56	B.Sc., M.B.A., B.Ed.	OC
	15	Secunderabad	Pulla Sunitha Rani	F	B.Pharm (USA)
Chevella	16	Maheshwaram	Devi Prasad Samudrala	M/28	Diploma	BC
	17	Rajendranagar	K.Solkar Reddy	M/32	MCA	OC
	18	Serlingampalli	Gorthi Srinivas	M/47	Intermediate	OC
Nizamabad	19	Yella Reddy	Dr.Ram REddy Marri	M	M.B.B.S., L.L.M	OC
	20	Nizamabad Urban	Dodle Shekhar	M/40	B.Sc	BC
	21	Kamareddy	Bharthwaja Veda Shree	M	9th Class	BC
	22	Balkonda	Ananth Bandari	M/31	Intermediate	BC
Medak	23	Patancheru	Satyanarayana	M
	24	Siddipet	Thummalapally Srinivas	M/42	B.A.L.L.B, PG Diploma in IRPM	BC
Mahabubnagar	25	Kalwakurthy	Nandi Sashidhar Reddy	M/39	Diploma in Fashion Design	OC
Nalgonda	26	Miryalaguda	Marepally Srinivas Reddy	M/40	B.A	OC
	27	Kodad	Sathuluri Govinda Rao	M/40	B.Com	OC
	28	Tungaturthy	Puduri Srinivasa Rao	M/35	B.Sc	SC
	29	Huzurnagar	Krishna Nayak Bhukya	M/31	L.L.M	ST
Warangal	30	Warangal West	Chidara Chandra Shekar	M/35	M.Sc	OC
	31	Warangal East	Jagdishwar R Perala	M/54	B.Sc	BC
	32	Vardhannapet	Jatti Ravi Kumar	M/35	M.A	ST
	33	Janagaon	Varaprasad Rao Yerra	M/36	M.C.A	BC
	34	Bupalapalli	Maheshwarapu Gattaiah	M/40	L.L.B.	BC
Karimnagar	35	Siricilla	Kyadaveni Nagaraju	M/30	M.B.A.	BC
	36	Korutla	Vasam Bhumanandam	M/72	PUC	BC
	37	Karimnagar	Mamindla Sandeep Kumar	M/30	SSC	BC
	38	Husnabad	Bollam Ravi	M/29	BA	BC
Adilabad	39	Bellampalli	Dandu Ravinder	M/44	M.A., L.L.B	SC
	40	Chennur	Mekala Saroja	F/41	SSC	SC
	41	Macheriyal	Sunil Ravikanti	M/25	B.Tech	OC
Khammam	42	Khammam	Ravi Maruth	M/50	MA	OC
	43	Kothagudem	K.Anjaneyulu	M/40	Advocate	BC
Hyderabad	44	Ibrahimpatnam	Malla Reddy P
	45	Karawan	Meesala Gopal Saibaba			SC
	46	Malakpet	Alleni Babu Rao