Prakash Belawadi - Manifesto for BBMP elections 2010

1. Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike Elections – 28 March 2010 Vote for Loksatta, Power to you

4. LOKSATTA Loksatta provides a political platform to take electoral politics head on, a platform which millions of Indian people have been looking for! Every time they look at the options before them, they wonder which one of them is the worst! This is where Loksatta Party comes in - giving them a choice they can be proud of. Political parties are the only way of engaging with the Government. We cannot shun Politics. NGOs make an impact in specific areas, and independents make a short-term impact. But, a successful political party full of moral, upright, efficient, intelligent statesmen Leaders can make a huge impact across the Nation. Loksatta is proud to present distinguished citizens of the city as its candidates for Bengaluru’s local government. Candidates who do not view politics as a business proposition but as an opportunity to give something back to society. Vote for Loksatta, Power to You www.loksattakarnataka.org

5. Prakash Belawadi Sunkenahalli I am a journalist and a theatre enthusiast. I have also directed a feature film, Stumble which won a National Award in 2003, besides directing several plays, documentary films and TV serials - Garva and Illiruvudu Summane . My parents too were Kannada theatre personalities - Makeup Nani and Bhargavi Narayan. I was awarded the Pratibha Bhushan by the Karnataka government in 2003. I have deep roots in the area surrounding Gandhi Bazaar. I was born here and grew up on Puttanna Road. I did my early education at Mahila Seva Samaja and later joined National High School and National College. I learned to swim at the well in Maratha Hostel on Bull Temple Road and went to rallies at the National College Grounds to listen to the greatest political orators of the age. For me and many others of my generation, the area is as much a center of the world as is New York or London. This was the area that created Dr HN's Bangalore Science Forum, YNK, Lankesh, that inspired Nisar Ahmed to write a poem on it and moved Gopalakrishna Adiga to contest a Lok Sabha election. I ask for your vote, and I promise you the very best public service in return. Vote for Loksatta, Power to you