July 25, 2012
Today was a busy day: Amongst a lot of things, protested against the unsustainable and incorrect electricity policies of the government and then went to meet Rama Rao garu, an ardent Lok Satta leader from Malkajgiri, who is fasting along with others in India Against Corruption team to fight corruption.

August 1, 2012
LSP leaders visit to Malkajgiri office on July 31, 2012
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July 19, 2012

Jalayagnam: A HUGE scam since 2004 due to which Andhra Pradesh incurred a liability of Rs 1,27,084 crore-87 per cent of the state’s budget for 2012-13!!! Projects were started to utilize water that was non-existent-water required for successful implementation of the projects on the Krishna and the Pennar is far more than the water ( Read more... )

Caste politics increases the inefficiencies of governance. Political parties end up giving seats not to the best candidate in the constituency but to the best candidate within a particular caste in that constituency. If elected, it is in the self-interest of that candidate to serve his caste and not everyone. The loser: India

Compared to other major nations, a huge proportion of our population is young, as shown in the image popular as "population pyramid". We are calling it "demographic dividend" as it is good for the economy if the population is young. But many forget that unless we educate and ensure that jobs are created for these young people, we will suffer from a ( Read more... )

I believe that one of the key metrics to judge the status of our country is "Human Development Index". India ranks a pathetic 134 out of 187 countries. As I keep saying, the best solution is to improve our productivity. And that can be done by focusing on education and building an ecosystem of good governance.
Link: http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/ ( Read more... )

June 28, 2012

Attended the State-level LSP leadership meeting to analyze the AP by-election verdict. Voters did not favor both the ruling party Congress and the main opposition party TDP. They want change and LSP is excited to go to the people to provide exactly that -- an alternative to both Congress and TDP.

June 26, 2012

Today's anti-liquor demonstration by Lok Satta, CPI and CPM, protesting against the new lottery system for liquor licenses is a success. JP and the rest of us ended up in Punjagutta police station in Hyderabad for few hours. The fight-cum-awareness initiative will continue.

Update: Immediately I got couple of phone calls. Before I get ( Read more... )

The current Finance Minister messed up Indian economy. Big time. And he is being proposed by his alliance to become the next President. I agree that decades of a person's work needs to be looked at while assessing the candidature for the President's post, but messing up the economy is too big a failure to ignore.

Many people think that corrupt politicians stash their ill-gotten wealth outside India in Swiss banks. That is not completely true. Amusingly people deify those politicians when those politicians are caught with illegal investments in India, with the incorrect logic "after all, he has built factories within the country instead of taking the money ( Read more... )