Loksatta Party national president Dr Jayaprakash Narayan has appointed Ad-hoc committees to run party affairs in residual Andhra Pradesh and Telangana States and expanded the party’s Greater Hyderabad unit.
In a media statement here on Wednesday, Dr JP has stated Ad-hoc committee for Telangana State comprises Dr P. Bhaskar Rao, Gajanani, G. Gattaiah, K. Geeta Murthy, Mohd Ghouse Moinuddin, Govinda Rao, Dr GV Rao, Jagan Kurma, P. Kodanda Rama Rao, Lakshman Balaji, Laxmi Datla, Dr GR Linga Murthy, Dr Panduranga Rao, V. Ramachandraiah, LV Rama Raju, Dr Rami Reddy, Bandaru Rammohan Rao, Ramu Dosapati, Ravi Bollam, Ravi Kumar Jatti, Saroja Devi, Shivaji Raju, K. Sivaramakrishna, Srinivas Tummanapalli and Srinivasa Reddy.
P. Kodanda Rama Rao, chairman of the Disciplinary Committee, will convene and chair the first meeting of the Telangana State Committee which will choose its office-bearers in the first meeting and send the list to the party’s national president for ratification.
The party supremo also expanded the GHMC Loksatta Party committee with the induction of all the candidates who contested the 2014 Assembly elections and a few key leaders. The new committee comprises Ramu Dosapati as president, Venugopal as general secretary, Srinivas Gorthi, P. Bhavani and Siva Rama Krishna as vice-presidents; Satyanarayana and Babu Anand as secretaries; Babu Rao (Malakpet), Devi Prasad (Maheshwaram), Dilip Shankar Reddy (Malkajgiri); Hyma Praveen (Sanathnagar); Jagan Mohan Metla (Amberpet); Kantimati Kannan (Nampally); Dr Lingamurthy (Medchal); Rajeswara Rao (Serilingampally); Ramachander Rao (Khairatabad); Ratnam Dasari (Cantonment); Rohit Kumar (Musheerabad); Sai Baba (Karwan); Sambi Reddy (Jubilee Hills); Sivaji Raju (Qutbullapur); Solkar Reddy (Rajendranagar); Srinivasan (Kukatpally); Sunitha (Secunderabad); Venkat Reddy (Uppal) are members of the committee.
Seshagiri Rao, Saroja, K. Srinivasa Varma (Malkajgiri); Srinivasa Reddy (LB Nagar) and K. Sivaramakrishna will be special invitees. K. Sivarama Krishna of the State committee will coordinate with the GHMC committee. It will take steps to strengthen the party and organize activities in Greater Hyderabad.
Loksatta Party AP Ad-hoc committee
Similarly, Dr Jayaprakash Narayan named DVVS Varma as president and AS Ramesh Reddy as general secretary of Andhra Pradesh unit. He also appointed YD Rama Rao, K Omkar, Beeshetti A Babji (BC), Narra Sridhar, Chennupati Vazeer, Panchadi Rambabu (BC) and Venkateswarlu (SC) as vice-presidents. Similarly, J. Iramurthy (BC), TR Jagannatha Reddy, S Janakirama Raju, Sunitha Chowdary, M Siddaiah Naidu, PV Ramana (SC) and Mohd Ismail (minority) as secretaries. Dr Kondaiah has been appointed chairman and D Vishnumurthy secretary of AP Disciplinary committee. Other members are: Dr K. Pattabhi Ramaiah, G Janaki Rama Raju, Dr P Chandra Mouli and Dr Radha Devi.
Dr Jayaprakash Narayan said Katari Srinivasa Rao and Ravi Maruth (elected president and general secretary of the party in united Andhra Pradesh) will be members of the national council. Both of them would be special invitees in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Committees and have full voting rights in both the committees. The Andhra Pradesh State Committee will be in office until further orders or until elections are held in the State party whichever is earlier, he added.
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