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A Lok Satta Party team from the headquarters is leaving for Prakasam district tomorrow to study the havoc caused by Cyclone Laila and evaluate how it could go to the rescue of victims.

Announcing this at a media conference, party leaders Katari Srinivasa Rao, V. Laxman Balaji and V. Vijayender Reddy said that the party leaders planned to visit Addanki, Chirala and Ongole. A local Lok Satta Party is already engaged in distributing food packets and medicines in Ongole and coordinating with officials in ensuring that relief reached all sufferers.

The Lok Satta leaders congratulated the State Government on the alacrity with which it took precautionary measures and wanted it to display the same alacrity in extending relief and attending to rehabilitation. It should go to the assistance of farmers who had lost their produce, and fishermen who had lost their fishing gear. It should take steps for the purchase of paddy damaged by rain and floods.

The Lok Satta leaders hoped that the Government of India, unlike in the past, would extend liberal assistance promptly.

Lok Satta Party President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today appealed to all parties and organizations to extend moral, material and human support to the Government in undertaking rescue and relief operations and mitigating people’s suffering in the wake of the cyclone.

Dr. JP, now on a tour of the U.S., said in a message that Andhra Pradesh has unfortunately been battered by one natural calamity or the other beginning with prolonged drought to unprecedented floods and severe cyclone now in the last one year. It is time that every one transcended politics and went to the rescue of people threatened by the cyclone.

Dr. JP congratulated the State and Union Governments on working closely and effectively in addressing the cyclone threat.

Dr. JP recalled that successive Governments have mostly focused on short-term measures in the wake of a natural calamity and asked the Rosaiah Government to give up ad hocism and take up long-term measures to preempt losses in future.