Praja Rajyam to focus on student voters

Approximately 36 lakh students aged over 18 in State ‘Youth should convey their feeling by casting votes’ HYDERABAD: Leaders of Praja Rajyam and its youth wing Yuva Rajyam on Sunday asked party members to go all out and make the drive to help enrol college students as voters, a success. Allu Aravind, Praja Rajyam general secretary, told a gathering of State and district committee members that with elections not far away, their focus was to enrol as many voters as they could of the approximately 36 lakh students aged over 18 in the State. Special effort He said a special effort was required to bring in youth and make them participate in the electoral process. Yuva Rajyam president Pawan Kalyan dwelt at length on why the party needed to motivate youth to enrol as voters and use their ballot as the weapon. He explained how by voting they could register their protest at uncaring governments/political parties, thus teaching them a lesson. Don’t suffer “There is no need for youth to be disillusioned. Neither is there any need for them to resign themselves to the feeling that they had to continue suffering injustice at the hands of unscrupulous leaders belonging to political parties with vested interest. They need to convey their feelings by exercising their franchise,” he said. Working committees At a press conference later Praja Rajyam general secretary P. Mitra announced the names of chairmen and vice-chairmen of seven State Working Committees. They include B. Dileep Chakravarthy and Attili Seetaramaswamy (programmes), Moorthy Srinivasulu, Tagore Madhu (publicity & campaign), T. Seshnarayan, A. Rajkumar (media relations), A. Raja Suresh, T.C. Ashok (communications-Information Technology), Basavaraju Srinivas, Basheer (poll execution), Siddahartha Goud, Lelle Suresh (cultural) and Bade Baburao, vice-chairman, Party Infrastructure Monitoring Committee. 10-25 members Each of the committees, he said, would have 10-25 members, whose names would be announced in a week.