The breakaway group of Loksatta Party headed by its national president Katari Srinivasa Rao has made it clear that the party activities will continue as usual.
Mr. Srinivasa Rao was a close associate of party founder-president Jayaprakash Narayan as party general secretary in the united Andhra Pradesh. He parted ways later with the Loksatta leader over organisational matters and formed a parallel Loksatta Party.
Reacting to party founder Jayaprakash Narayan’s announcement on Tuesday that Loksatta would cease to take part in electoral politics and would go back to being a political movement, Mr. Rao and his State unit president D.V.V.S. Varma made it clear that Loksatta Party came into existence to transform politics.
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It would continue to strive for an alternative political system. Dr. Narayan and his team were free to confine their activities to Loksatta movement, they said.