Lok Satta to inject new blood into party

JP criticises Swachh Bharat as it becomes BJP’s PR exercise

Hyderabad: The Lok Satta will focus all its energies on enrolling lakhs of new members and emerge as a mass party for youth and women, “ Lok Satta Party founder president Jayaprakash Narayan said.

Under the chairmanship of national president Surendra Srivastava, the three-day national council meet had discussed the action plan, and organisational strategies to achieve this goal. The conclave was attended by 200 delegates across nine states.“Though Lok Satta Party, with its unmatched ideology and orientation towards sustainable reforms, is influencing the national political discourse, it is so far confined to Telugu-speaking states,” JP said.

Therefore, he felt that there was a need for the party to expand its scope and turf to the entire nation by putting the national interest to the fore. It is therefore imperative that the party national council was convened here in Hyderabad and its plenary conducted for three days, under the chairmanship of party national president Surendra Srivastava. A wide range of issues have been discussed and some important decisions were made in the lines of organisational matters, electoral stances and leadership development etc.

The Party has decided to ensure that youth and women should be inducted into the party and give them leadership by identifying the best talent, to transform this party into an alternative political party that truly represents the aspirations of youth and women of current society. Not only that, but also Lok Satta Party is going to be the natural platform for weaker sections of the society where problems of such sections would be taken and fought head on.

Apart from AP, Telangana, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Delhi, where Lok Satta Party already has its presence, we are now trying to spread our base in states like MP, UP and Bihar,” he said.JP said the BJP government at the Centre lacked a clear national vision in designing policies on health, education, farming and decentralisation of local governments. JP criticised that Swachh Bharat, which is the brain child of BJP, had become a PR campaign rather than a sustainable effort to instill a sense of cleanliness in public and private sector.

He also demanded that the BJP government should not remain content with paying lip service, but convert its intent into action. A mere PR campaign can only catch some eyeballs but the purpose is all lost when the local governments completely fail in implementing it. Therefore, Lok Satta Party would expose this hypocrisy and pressurise the BJP government to take Swachh Bharat campaign seriously.