People For Lok Satta elects its second Executive board

People For Lok Satta elects its second Executive board

People for Lok Satta (PFL)(www.peopleforloksatta.org) , the political nonprofit organization of overseas supporters of the Lok Satta Party, elected its second Executive Board at the international level and is in the process of conducting several chapter-level boards.

Election Commissioners Ms. Sarvani Piratla (NJ-USA), Mr. Chaitanya Kalapala (Houston-USA) and Mr. Kiran Telukunta(Germany), conducted the internal elections. The elections were conducted under the preferential system of voting in line with Lok Satta Party’s philosophy, instead of the traditional first-past-the-post majority system.

Ms. Rajani Karuturi from New Jersey, who was organizer of several ground level activities and election campaigns in last year, is elected for President, She announced that she would give her full energies in ensuring that the trend of team spirit, teamwork, leadership building, open communication and coordination to be taken forward and strengthened further.

Mr. Raghuveer Mukkamalla, who has been handling finances for Washington Chapter and who has also been part of central finance team, is elected as Vice President (Finance).

Mr. Krishna Burugapalli, who has been handling memberships for Washington chapter and who was instrumental in setting up membership infrastructure along with current Vice President Kiran Indukuri, is elected as Vice President (Membership).

Mr. Prakash Kapila from New Jersey, who is coordinating constituency promotion projects for Vizag and Rayadurgam, is elected as Vice President (Projects). He vouched to give laser focus to win four constituencies adopted by PFL.

Mr. Pradeep Chukkapalli, who coordinated constituency promotion project for Sanathnagar and activities of Boston chapter, was elected Vice President (Events).

Mr. Dinesh Pagadala from Nashville,Tennesse who is handling PFL media activities from past 3 years, re-elected again as Vice President (Media).

Mr. Prasanna Meda, outgoing President, said he is hopeful of the new executive comprising young and energetic leaders would take PFL to new heights and by electing Rajani Karuturi as PFL President PFL NRI’s gave a gift to NRI Women world . Mr. Jawahar Kambhampati, outgoing Vice President of Projects, said he is happy to see new leaders coming forward and taking lead in challenging times before 2014 elections.

Dinesh Pagadala, Media VP said that from past 3 years PFL has organized events and campaigns like “Rejuvenate India”, “Kill Corruption”, “NRI absentee voting rights” and 240 Miles walk “Dandi March II” against corruption in the U. S. and several other countries. PFL has been concentrating on ground campaigns in India in last two years and supported Lok satta party with activities and phone banks in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka elections. PFL Adopted 4 constituencies under CPP Project and PFL had also provided capable leaders like Dilip Sankarreddy, Hyma Sagi and Padma Bhupatiraju, who were members of PFL but moved to India to directly work with Lok Satta.He said that he entered the executive board at the age of 26 and there were 2 people past and currently in the e-board who are youth below 30 years ,giving a Real importance to youth and Women is only possible for Lok Satta and he gave a call to all youth that if you want to serve country beyond Caste, Race, Religion then PFL Welcomes and Supports you .NRIs all over world the who wanted to Volunteer, Join PFL Can send an email to info@peopleforloksatta.org and NRIs in USA can simply give a missed call to 510-MY-SATTA(510-697-2882).

Mr. Kiran Telukunta, one of the election officials, said that PFL voters and candidates felt fairness because of the preferential voting system. The system had been followed in several other organisations like wikimedia and Debian all over the world. Kiran said that it would result in leaders to work harder to appeal to more people than the first-past-the-post majority system used by Indian Election commission could.

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People for Lok Satta