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Sunday, Oct 03, 2004

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Andhra Pradesh

Govindacharya to make people `hunger-free'

By Our Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD, OCT. 2. The former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) organising secretary, K.N. Govindacharya, has embarked on a `national reconstruction programme' aimed at ensuring that no one will be hungry because of lack of work.

The programme is operated by a charitable trust with which he is associated since quitting active politics in April last year. He told reporters at a meeting organised by Citizens' Forum for Democracy here on Saturday that he continued his association with RSS while carrying on social service and pursuing intellectual activity.

Mr. Govindacharya said resources, manpower and talent available in districts were being used as inputs for the programme. The trust would organise a national convention at Varanasi to promote the programme in November.

`Integral humanism'

Addressing a separate press conference in Nellore, he announced that he would faithfully follow the ideology of late Deendayal Upadhyaya, former president of the then Jan Sangh and his ideology of `Integral humanism'.

Besides, he would continue to be active in mainstream through constructive and agitational approach. About the agitational part, Mr. Govindacharya pointed that he would be present wherever there was an agitation against the emergence of soft drink majors, Pepsi and Coca-Cola. He was present when there was an agitation against Coca-Cola plant in Kerala and recently in Bhopal.

Mr. Govindacharya informed that he had been in public life since 1960, having been associated with RSS, ABVP and BJP. In 2000, he had concentrated on preparing a project report on `Implementation of globalisation and need for alternative'.

His conclusions had revealed increasing levels of rural and urban poverty, besides disparities in economic parameters. Even employment opportunities had decreased, whereas travails of women had increased. On the other hand, the consumerist style had damaged society.

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