‘Government ignoring basic needs’, says JP

Friday, September 15, 2017 
Visakhapatnam

Lok Satta Party founder Jayaprakash Narayan said that the governments at the Centre as well as at the State are ignoring the basic needs such as making education and health affordable to the people.

JP was here to participate party’s four day ‘Janam Kosam JP’ Surajya Yatra’ programme in the city and district. Speaking to media before launching the campaign, he said it was unfortunate that the political debate at both the national and State levels was on who would win the next elections instead of what the ruling parties had done to alleviate the problems of the common people.

Jayaprakash Narayan referring to the 508 km high-speed rail project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai, instead of spending $34,000 million on the project, a fraction of the money could be used to double the speed of the trains by improving the track between important destinations such as Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad and other places in the country. He said that the country ranked 103rd Human Development Index that was calculated based on education, health and government services. This was an indication of the status of health and education sector in the country, he said.

On the populist schemes of Chandrababu Naidu government, he said spending on gifts and publicity campaigns for ‘Jalasiriki Harati’ was nothing but wasting the taxpayers’ money.

JP appealed the people irrespective of their political affiliations to join the movement to strengthen democracy. Interested youth could long on to http://www.youthforbetterindia.com and register themselves by giving their name and phone number.