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Loksatta is an Indian newspaper. It was established on 14 January 1948. It was established on 14 January 1948. Loksatta gained notability through its coverage of Mahatma Gandhi 's assassination and subsequent developments; the founder of the Indian Express Group , Ramnath Goenka , remained dedicated to Loksatta .
Lok Satta started as a citizen movement, Lok Satta Andolana or Lok Satta Movement, in unified Andhra Pradesh and later spread to few other parts of the country, including Mumbai, with the Vote JUHU and Vote Mumbai campaigns. [7]
Jaya Prakash Narayana (born 14 January 1956) is an Indian liberal politician, activist and a former public administrator. [1] He is the founder and president of Lok Satta Party.
Apart from creating India’s largest base for a people’s movement in Andhra Pradesh, Lok Satta is now deeply engaged in building a viable national platform for democratic reforms through building alliances in major states and promoting local initiatives, and building an effective and highly credible coalition at the national level specifically for electoral reforms.
India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies as of 2018. [2] [3] There are publications produced in each of the 22 scheduled languages of India and in many of the other languages spoken throughout the country.
He has also been the editor in chief of Marathi newspaper Loksatta. [1] [2] He has also worked with The Observer and the Maharashtra Times. [3] He is known for being a harsh critic of the BJP, RSS and Shiv Sena. On 12 March 2018 he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha on Congress ticket from Maharashtra. [4]
Patil won from Ahmedpur Assembly constituency representing Nationalist Congress Party in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election. He polled 84,636 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Vinayakrao Kishanrao Jadhav Patil of Bharatiya Janata Party, by a huge margin of 29,191 votes.
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