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New party to follow UP experiment

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‘Rajyadhikara Party’ to strengthen base in State

Kakinada: The new political party formed recently under the banner of ‘Rajyadhikara Party’ is keen on strengthening its base in the State following the Utter Pradesh experiment, where all castes were given tickets in the elections proportionate to their strength in population, according to VGR Naragoni, president of the party.

At a press conference here on Wednesday, he said, all these years’ only three major castes were dominating the political scenario and enjoying power and the new party wanted to reverse it.

‘We wanted the political power should be shared by all castes basing on their strength. Till now all the chief ministers were from ruling land lords’ class but not a single person from the backward classes.

Of course a Dalit occupied the chief minister’s chair but it is for a brief period.’ he asserted.

Vote bank

Regretting that all the political parties are using the BCs, SCs, STs and other minorities as the vote banks all these days, Naragoni said that the backward classes’ people were confined to their professions and not allowed to grow.

He said even the communist parties were in no way different from the Congress and the TDP in exploitation of the BCs and other downtrodden and cited how these parties leadership was limited to a single caste people. He said the present land struggle initiated by various parties deserves to be welcomed as even the TDP and BJP were now in forefront in demanding house sites, and lands to the landless poor. However, he said, the Rajyadhikara Party was having its own reservations on the demand for dismissal of the Chief Minister.

‘The demands of house sites and lands to the poor were justified but not the ouster of Chief Minister.

Both the communist parties are now leading the movement of anarchy and TDP in a desperate mood blindly supporting them, he remarked.

Naragoni, who is the State president of the BC’s Ayikya Sangharsha Samithi, said the samithi would also continue as the united forum for BCs championing their cause.

He ridiculed that in West Bengal the CPM government did not provide any reservations to BCs, contrary to our State here where BCs were given 28 per cent reservations. BC leaders Chollangi Venugopal, Vasamsetti Venkata Ramana, SC leader Hams Kumar Phoole attended.

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