NON RESIDENT Indian (NRI) professionals are attracted to the ideologies of Loksatta (which means people power) Party, a two and half year old political party of India based out of southern state of Andhra Pradesh which questions government’s inefficiencies and inadequacies while advocating for comprehensive reforms in Indian governance.
The NRI group said that they are all inspired by Dr Jayapura Narayan, the party’s president who is well known for his fearlessness, pragmatic idealism and straight talk. Dr Narayan a doctor by profession, an IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer by choice and a democrat by conviction, quit his career after realising that faulty governance processes are the biggest hurdle in India’s path of progress.
Dr Narayan contested and won from the Kukatpally constituency of Ranga Reddy District for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The NRI group termed the win as “historic and a new political awakening”. The Los Angeles chapter of the group conducted a rally in Artesia on May 16 soon after getting to know about the party president’s win .They handed flyers and explained party’s ideology to the shoppers.
The NRI group has close to 300 passionate working professionals who work through internet and weekly conference calls to communicate among the groups various chapters and volunteers across United States.
The group formally started their activities in January 2009 on the advent of general elections in India where some 714 million voters chose their representatives by democratic means .The group focused on advocacy, awareness, publicizing the ideology of LSP in and around India through emails, blogs, videos and phone messages. Some of the group members conducted fund raising and phone campaigns for the contestants of LSP.
Vamshi Kongara, a software engineer based in Bay Area, and Vijay Borra, a software engineer from Dayton, Ohio spearheaded and participated in an automated phone message campaign which reached 40,000 NRI households. Mr.Other Articles by merinews network
Kongara’s idea of joining the local chapter of the group stemmed from his desire of seeing a corruption free India which is widely shared among the NRI community who often lament on the corrosive nature of corruption and its unholy nexus with politics. In July 2008, Washington Times reported that nearly a fourth of the 543 elected Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, "including human trafficking,immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder.
"Loksatta is the only party which aligns its goals with India’s development through empowering citizens by raising political awareness”, felt Raghava Reddy Solipuram, another software engineer based in Houston and one of the lead coordinators of the group.
The group’s website PeopleForLoksatta.org has been instrumental in gaining supporters and volunteers across USA. The group is planning to support Citizen Help Centers (for obtaining government services) in India, campaign for NRI voting rights, streamline the functioning of various LSP support groups outside India and engage the disenchanted NRI community into mainstream political process.
The NRI group said that they are all inspired by Dr Jayapura Narayan, the party’s president who is well known for his fearlessness, pragmatic idealism and straight talk. Dr Narayan a doctor by profession, an IAS (Indian Administrative Service) officer by choice and a democrat by conviction, quit his career after realising that faulty governance processes are the biggest hurdle in India’s path of progress.
Dr Narayan contested and won from the Kukatpally constituency of Ranga Reddy District for the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly. The NRI group termed the win as “historic and a new political awakening”. The Los Angeles chapter of the group conducted a rally in Artesia on May 16 soon after getting to know about the party president’s win .They handed flyers and explained party’s ideology to the shoppers.
The NRI group has close to 300 passionate working professionals who work through internet and weekly conference calls to communicate among the groups various chapters and volunteers across United States.
The group formally started their activities in January 2009 on the advent of general elections in India where some 714 million voters chose their representatives by democratic means .The group focused on advocacy, awareness, publicizing the ideology of LSP in and around India through emails, blogs, videos and phone messages. Some of the group members conducted fund raising and phone campaigns for the contestants of LSP.
Vamshi Kongara, a software engineer based in Bay Area, and Vijay Borra, a software engineer from Dayton, Ohio spearheaded and participated in an automated phone message campaign which reached 40,000 NRI households. Mr.Other Articles by merinews network
Kongara’s idea of joining the local chapter of the group stemmed from his desire of seeing a corruption free India which is widely shared among the NRI community who often lament on the corrosive nature of corruption and its unholy nexus with politics. In July 2008, Washington Times reported that nearly a fourth of the 543 elected Indian Parliament members faced criminal charges, "including human trafficking,immigration rackets, embezzlement, rape and even murder.
"Loksatta is the only party which aligns its goals with India’s development through empowering citizens by raising political awareness”, felt Raghava Reddy Solipuram, another software engineer based in Houston and one of the lead coordinators of the group.
The group’s website PeopleForLoksatta.org has been instrumental in gaining supporters and volunteers across USA. The group is planning to support Citizen Help Centers (for obtaining government services) in India, campaign for NRI voting rights, streamline the functioning of various LSP support groups outside India and engage the disenchanted NRI community into mainstream political process.
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