Lok Satta Party and BC Front join hands
The Lok Satta Party and the Backward Classes’ United Front today entered into an electoral alliance and decided to contest on a common symbol.
Announcing this at a media conference, Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan and Mr. P. Ramakrishnaiah, President of the BC United Front, said that the Front would contest from 14 seats.
The Lok Satta President disclosed that his party was also working closely with the Muslim United Front.
Dr. JP said that both the old and the new parties pursuing traditional politics, reciting the social justice mantra, are fielding only candidates who can spend lavishly in elections. There could be real social justice only when every child irrespective of caste, religion and family has equal opportunities for growth, rule of law applies equally to all and when all classes and castes have proportional representation in legislative bodies.
Dr. JP said that the Lok Satta entered into an alliance with the BC United Front because of their shared ideals and objectives. The Lok Satta had offered its hand of friendship to all parties which committed themselves against inducing voters with money and liquor and against turning people into beggars. But none of the parties had made an unequivocal commitment. In contrast, the BC United Front, a party registered in 2004, has come forward to enter into an alliance with the Lok Satta Party because it too believed in proportional representation and opposed to offering inducements to voters.
Dr. JP asserted that a silent revolution fuelled by word of mouth is under way in Andhra Pradesh. The middle classes, youth, and women victims of the liquor menace are today determined to vote for the Lok Satta which alone could usher in new politics.
Mr. Ramakrishnaiah, quoting Dr. Ambedkar, said that the key to rendering social justice lay in acquiring political power. He said that the BC United Front and the Lok Satta Party would win a respectable number of seats in the coming elections. Mr. Jupally Satayanarayana, Vice President of the Lok Satta Party, spoke.
The following are the constituencies and candidates contestent on behalf the BC United Front:
District - Constituency - Candidate
1. Chittoor - Chittoor - Krishna Yadav
2. Chittoor - Kuppam - Chengaiah Lakshmi
3. Anantapur - Kalyanadurgam - Krishnamurthy
4. Anantapur - Uravakonda - Rudrananda
5. Anantapur - Raptadu - G. Sanjeev kumar
6. Kadapa - Mydukur - Gampa Tirupati
7. Kadapa - Badvel - Dr. Danam
8. Kadapa - Proddutur - Paluru Ramakrishnaiah
9. Kurnool - Allagadda -
10. Kurnool - Nandikotkuru -
11. Kurnool - Kodumuru - Sanjeeva Rao
12. Nalgonda - Nagarjuna Sagar - C.H. Mallikarjuna Goud
13. Mahaboobnagar - Shadnagar - K. Venugopal
14. Mahaboobnagar - Maktal - J. Suryanarayana