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Lok Satta picks holes in policies of other parties

Correspondent

Advises voters not to be carried away by cinema glamour

TDP flayed for promising unemployment allowance
Decision on education bifurcation hailed

VIZIANAGARAM: Lok Satta Party has advised political parties not to deviate from their policies and programmes for the sake of alliances, as it will benefit none. The present day politics are revolving round alliances and cinema glamour, according to party State general secretary D.V.V.S. Verma.

Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Mr. Verma said that the Congress and the TDP, with a view to counter the cinema glamour of Praja Rajyam founder were roping in film actors to meet personal ends. Moreover, leaders of the three parties had reduced the parties to family estate, he said and appealed to voters to watch policies and programmes and vote instead of getting carried away by cinema glamour. The party would tie up with those that support its agenda, if not it would contest alone in the forthcoming elections, he said.

Populist measures

The populist measures such as Rs.2-a-kg rice and unemployment allowance would only promote dependency rather than making people stand on their own. He criticized the TDP for promising unemployment allowance of Rs.1000 to youth instead of jobs and suggested that the government must impart training to at least 10 lakh jobless youths in various technical skills for absorbing them wherever necessary at a later stage.

Welcoming the decision of the government bifurcating the primary and secondary school education, Mr. Verma demanded pre-school education and the medium of instruction must be in Telugu up to standard V. And from classes 6 to 12 the syllabus must be the same for examinations. In order to achieve the target, the government must recruit one lakh teachers and bar them from non-teaching activities except Census and election duties. Party district president B.A. Babji, zonal coordinator I. Ananta Lakshmi, State committee member Ramah Murty and others were present.

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