Loksatta Timely Help To Fire Victims

Political parties with their leaders generally make their appearance at the spot of good & bad happenings, just to receive media attention. But for Loksatta -the newly emerged political party in Andhra Pradesh, India led by Dr Jayaprakash Narain it is a different approach. It was surprising to see this party workers going round in our locality even after elections were over, to show their concern to the fire victims to collect donations in cash and kind. Recently dozens of thatched houses in a slum near our locality [Gudimalkapur-Mehdipatnam] were destroyed in a fire. The fire that broke out in one of the houses during mid-night immediately spread to adjoining houses rendering the poor people loosing their houses and belongings in the fire though the fire tenders rushed to the spot and doused the flames. We came to know about this only when the Loksatta volunteers knocked our doors for some help to the fire victims. We have offered our contributions in kind. What touched us more is that the service minded political party jumped into action to collect contributions and give some relief to the victims instead of making a name-sake-visit to the spot. We congratulated the yeoman service of Loksatta and wish to be emulated by others. Click here http://www.suryanarayana.com/media/Vaartha7Jun2009.pdf to read the Vaartha Telugu Newspaper coverage with photo as appended in this blog.