loksatta.org Party : Official Website

Party : Loksatta Party
State : Uttar Pradesh
Year of Foundation : 1996

Home Page : http://www.loksatta.org/

Related : Loksatta Party Online Membership Registration : www.electionin.in/264.html

Loksatta Party Differentiators :

** Loksatta Party is the only Emerging Liberal party in India.

Party Symbol : Whistle

** We are the only party with a political think tank, the Foundation for Democratic Reform, which serves as an expert resource centre for the study of India’s social, political, economic and constitutional policies and offers well researched alternatives unbounded by partisan politics.
** While the Loksatta Party is neither able nor ready to form government or wrest opposition, we have mastered the art of applying shear on the system.
** We are able to exert sufficient pressure on the existing government, opposition and key decision makers to drag the pendulum toward the center, force the conversation and accelerate the pace of reforms in the nation.
** This is real politics.
** This is practical.
** This drives better outcomes for the country.
** This advances the country for the better, day by day, everyday, instead of waiting for the messiah to emerge.

How does Loksatta deliver this? :

** The unique stature of being a political entity that puts nation above party even in the government and opposition’s minds.
** This gets us invited to write the initial versions of bills and amendments like the Anti Rape Legislation with the Justice Verma Committee.
** The clout and reputation across the partisan political mainstream as being neutral and sensible.
** This gets both sides of the house seeking our counsel in parliament, as advisers and arbitrators to chart a path out of the mire in contentious issues like the Lokpal Bill.
** Capacity for content & substance derived from the collective intelligence of professions in politics (Lok Satta leaders include IAS officer, bureaucrats, Corporate Executives, technologists, public policy experts, urban governance experts, political scientists, lawyers, economists and bankers etc.) which provides the ability to devise robust policy on behalf of the government.
** This, while holding the position of being economically liberal and for social justice, particularly with food, health and education.
** This gets us ears in the houses, as champions of FDI in retail, against oppressive agricultural pricing while we also lobby to achieve Citizen Charters and Decentralization.
** We are courted by all government commissions, committees and decision makers, regardless of the party in power to formulate and forward the right policies for governance, electoral, economic and judicial reform.
** The authoring of RTI with NAC, Lokpal bill, Anti Defection Law.

Organizational Structure :
The Party shall have a five-tier organizational structure comprising the following units:
** Primary unit at the village panchayat, municipal ward, city corporation division or at all such other levels as the Party may prescribe.
** Intermediate unit at the intermediate panchayat, municipality, municipal corporation, or at such other levels as the Party may prescribe.
** District Unit at the district or at such other levels as the Party may prescribe.
** State Unit at the state, union territory or such other levels as the Party may prescribe.
** National Party at the national level.

Note 1: Party members representing professionals, women, youth, students and other similar categories may form separate groups as part of the primary and intermediate levels and at such other levels as may be prescribed.
Note 2: The party may provide for affiliation of organizations and associations of like-minded citizens from time to time.

About Loksatta Party :
Loksatta Aandolan began as a citizen’s movement in 1996 to help promote electoral and governance reforms. Loksatta Party was born in 2006 out of the realization that the best and brightest of society need to embrace politics. It is the party for the new generation, a generation that is sick and tired of dynastic and vote bank politics, a generation that has no time for politics run by the unholy trinity of corruption, greed and nepotism.

The aims and objectives of Loksatta Party are:
** To establish a new political culture that places the citizen at the centre of governance;
** To protect the unity and integrity of India at all times and create a secular and just republic in which the citizen is the true sovereign;
** To nurture, protect and promote the constitutional values of liberty, justice and equality for all;
** To create a political, economic and social environment that ensures equal opportunities for vertical mobility to all sections of society, irrespective of caste, ethnicity, religion, or gender;
** To eliminate all forms of discrimination by birth and guarantee dignity and opportunity to every citizen irrespective of origin and status; and to promote social equality and justice and fully integrate all disadvantaged sections, including dalits, adivasis, and socially and economically backward classes;
** To ensure that every child, irrespective of origin and socio-economic position, has reasonable access to quality education which provides an opportunity to fulfil her true potential;
** To build a viable and effective health-care system that reaches every man, woman and child and guarantees good health to all irrespective of birth or economic status;
** To promote and implement policies aimed at rejuvenating agriculture, increasing rural incomes and improving the quality of life;
** To ensure that every young person acquires adequate knowledge and skills to make her a productive partner in wealth creation, thereby promoting gainful employment and economic opportunities;
** To ensure that every family, rural or urban, gets access to basic amenities of life, including housing, sanitation, transport and the opportunity to earn a decent livelihood;
** To provide social security to the vast section of underpaid, dispossessed and unorganised sector workers;
** To empower women and provide opportunities for their economic, social and political advancement;
** To promote public awareness about the democratic functioning of all institutions of governance and encourage reasoned debate and healthy public discourse;
** To establish a people-centric democratic polity based on liberty, self-governance, empowerment of citizens, rule of law, and self-correcting institutional mechanisms;