March 17: The Praja Rajyam took birth from the urge for change in society. It makes me proud that people want me to be their servant in their quest for a better tomorrow.
Andhra Pradesh is a rich state, but people are made poor. With our vast resources we should be in a land of prosperity. But, for the last six decades, only a thin layer of our society has prospered. Lack of political will and unbridled corruption made universal prosperity a very distant dream.
Politics has degenerated. Rather than being a calling to serve our people, politics has become a vocation to plunder and loot the public.
Democratic governments ought to be the trustees — dharmadhikaris — of the people, shepherding them on to the path of progress. Instead, our governments are destroying our present and squelching the hopes of our children. Corruption engulfs us in every manner. Even those whose daily survival is a struggle are not spared from its rapacious claws. This has to stop.
At the top, the leaders have come to believe that it is their right to embezzle and extort; and that it is also right and proper for their kith, kin and crooked friends in the business communities to defraud us.
The Congress and the Telugu Desam vied with each other in looting the public money.
While the Telugu Desam government headed by Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu encouraged corruption in an organised manner, the government headed by Mr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy opened the floodgates for corruption.
In the run-up to the polls, Mr Reddy and Mr Naidu are once again vying with each other to hoodwink people with false promises.
For over 60 years we have been ruled by a few families belonging to a few communities; and they have, over and over, betrayed our trust.
They can be stopped if the hitherto excluded segments come together — the SC, the ST, the OBC, the poor, the minorities, the disabled and women — to take power back to where it belongs: with the
people.
We need to infuse our politics with the moral urgency to serve our people. We cannot continue to remain as silent spectators. We can join hands and bring about the change that is needed.
The Praja Rajyam is committed to this in true spirit.
Andhra Pradesh is a rich state, but people are made poor. With our vast resources we should be in a land of prosperity. But, for the last six decades, only a thin layer of our society has prospered. Lack of political will and unbridled corruption made universal prosperity a very distant dream.
Politics has degenerated. Rather than being a calling to serve our people, politics has become a vocation to plunder and loot the public.
Democratic governments ought to be the trustees — dharmadhikaris — of the people, shepherding them on to the path of progress. Instead, our governments are destroying our present and squelching the hopes of our children. Corruption engulfs us in every manner. Even those whose daily survival is a struggle are not spared from its rapacious claws. This has to stop.
At the top, the leaders have come to believe that it is their right to embezzle and extort; and that it is also right and proper for their kith, kin and crooked friends in the business communities to defraud us.
The Congress and the Telugu Desam vied with each other in looting the public money.
While the Telugu Desam government headed by Mr N. Chandrababu Naidu encouraged corruption in an organised manner, the government headed by Mr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy opened the floodgates for corruption.
In the run-up to the polls, Mr Reddy and Mr Naidu are once again vying with each other to hoodwink people with false promises.
For over 60 years we have been ruled by a few families belonging to a few communities; and they have, over and over, betrayed our trust.
They can be stopped if the hitherto excluded segments come together — the SC, the ST, the OBC, the poor, the minorities, the disabled and women — to take power back to where it belongs: with the
people.
We need to infuse our politics with the moral urgency to serve our people. We cannot continue to remain as silent spectators. We can join hands and bring about the change that is needed.
The Praja Rajyam is committed to this in true spirit.
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