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‘PR will strive to end political corruption’

Staff Reporter

Kakinada: The Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) would strive to eliminate political corruption which had been India’s bane so much that many members of Parliament and Legislative Assemblies were getting commissions in the constituency development funds. Massive allocations were made in the budget but only a negligible portion of that was reaching the beneficiaries because of corruption which had taken deeper roots in recent times, said PRP advisor and manifesto committee co-convener KSR Murthy.

Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, Mr. Murthy said political corruption had become such a menace that even Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee had sought the scrapping of MPLADS to stem the rot but no member of Parliament agreed with his view. There could be no better evidence of this sordid state of affairs than the fact that the members of Parliament were not prepared to forfeit their share of the pie, he said.

The MLAs were no exception to thistrend.PRP would set an example by promoting persons with clean track record and, challenged that even a booth level worker of it could not be bought by those seeking to subvert the electoral process.

The PRP leader said the party’s membership drive was intensified and each person who aspired for ticket was asked to enrol at least 10,000 people. District presidents and other executive members would be appointed soon, Mr. Murthy said.

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