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LOK
SATTA IN THE NEWS...
Lok
Satta Made History
Celebrating the success
of One Crore Signature Campaign for Local Government Empowerment
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03:00
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Sunday, 19 October
2003Thursday,
Lalitha Kala Thoranam, Hyderabad.
The
Federation for Empowerment of Local Governments (FELG) and
LOK SATTA launched a campaign to collect One Crore (TenMillion)
signatures in support of local government empowerment in Andhra
Pradesh on the 9th of August.( Click
here to know about the formation of FELG) The campaign
concluded on the 2nd of October. Now we are proud to announce
that we have exceeded the target of 1 crore signatures. (Click
here for district wise tally of signatures)
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LOK
SATTA organized a massive public meeting on October 19th in
Hyderabad to celebrate the historic achievement of collecting
one crore signatures. Thousands of activists representing tens
of millions of voices across the state of Andhra Pradesh and
noted activists from other states notably Sri LC Jain, Dr. George
Mathew, Dr PV Shenoi, Sri SV Raju, Sri AK Venkata Subramanian,
Sri Elango Rangaswamy, Smt Shanta Sinha, Dr Bhaskara Rao, Sri
Mayank Gandhi and others participated in the colorful celebrations
and expressed their solidarity in support of the movement. The
celebrations featured inspiring performances by local folk artistes,
songs, ghazals and messages from a few noted leaders. The event
truly captured the spirit of people's empowerment and was broadcast
live by cable channels in Hyderabad.
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The
most significant aspect of the campaign is that it evolved
as a genuine people’s movement, which cannot be ignored
by the political process. Now for the first time in our democracy,
instead of the parties setting agendas through their manifestos
at campaign time, the people have set their own agenda and
could convince the political parties for devolution of powers
to local government. Undoubtedly as an impact of the collective
assertion the AP government has on November 7 in consultation
with the FELG and LOK SATTA representatives took a policy
decision to transfer full powers to local governments as demanded
by the people. (Read the highlights
of the Cabinet Committe meeting with the FELG representatives.)
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Did
you know?
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took only 53 days to mobilise one crore people and collect
their signatures. |
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