Lok Satta Party

Lok Satta Party invites Young Professionals and Students

Over the past few decades, Indian youth has shown signs of strong disenchantment with contemporary politics. For a young nation such as India, where 75 % of the population is less than 37 years old, this trend can be allowed to continue only at great risk to our collective future. It is high time ownership of the political space is shifted to the poor, disempowered, marginalized communities, and especially the young and educated citizens of India. It is time politics shows the way towards eliminating corruption in public life, and provide quality and meaningful public healthcare, education, and employable skills among youth. It is time we moved away from the culture of money-and-muscle power politics and bring to fruition, a new political culture that the new generation of Indians truly deserves.

With this vision, Lok Satta Party was launched on 2nd October, 2006. It is a national party in its goals, outlook, and functioning, but is presently focusing on Andhra Pradesh State for practical organizational reasons.

'1-crore People Outreach Programme'
An immediate and important challenge is to redirect political debate to real issues that shape the future of the society, namely healthcare, education, agriculture, rule of law, employment generation etc. Lok Satta has taken up this challenge by undertaking a massive outreach programme across all districts of Andhra Pradesh. This outreach effort is in the form of a survey capturing people's core issues - the issues that politics ought to really focus on. The goal of this survey is to generate and channelize the demand for a better culture of politics that leads the way towards solving these critical public issues.

This outreach programme aims to reach one crore citizens or 20 lakh families (one in every seven persons in the state!) by the end of this year. In each district, about 1000 volunteers are reaching out to one lakh families. These activities are being taken up in the Hyderabad region also.

Membership Enrolment and Voters' List corrections:
Volunteers are also helping interested citizens enroll as members of Lok Satta Party. Since November 6th, when enrolment began, 59,839 citizens across the State (as on 23rd November) became members of Lok Satta Party. Another 30,000 had contacted the Party office through email, phone calls, SMS and letters/notes expressing interest. Volunteers for the above Survey will also be assisting interested people enroll as party members.

Simultaneously, volunteers are also guiding eligible citizens, irrespective of their political sympathies, on getting enrolled as voters and on eliminating bogus names in the local voters' lists. As a direct result of Lok Satta's diligent advocacy, research and awareness efforts, Post Offices have now become the nearest and most convenient nodal centers for voter enrolment. You might have seen the related news in the media already (for more details, visit www.loksattaparty.com).

How can you and your friends participate?

You and your friends living in and around Hyderabad can easily participate in Lok Satta Party's activities locally. Just turn up at the weekly Orientation Programmes!

When?	2nd and 3rd December, 2006 (Saturday and Sunday). There will be two batches on each day: 10 AM - 1 PM and 2 PM - 5 PM.

Where?	LOK SATTA Party Office H.No:5-10-180/A&A1 (in the lane next to Aayakar Bhavan, Basheerbagh) Band Lanes, Adarshnagar, Hyderabad -500 001.

RSVP:	Please call 040 - 2335-8100 (between 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM) to confirm your participation. Our telephone volunteer will be glad to provide you with further details. There is another number 040-2329-9227, just in case. You can also send a confirmation to info@loksattaparty.com.

Please e-mail/circulate this note among your friends, colleagues at your workplace, neighborhood, online groups, etc.