Mangalore: Sudhatta Jain Shirthadi an RTI worker and a labor union activist in a press statements here today announced his candidature as an Independent for the ensuing Loka Sabha elections around May, 2014. He gave his history and activities in the statement and promise to improve the economic and social conditions of the poor workers in the Mangalore city constituency, if he is elected next MP, defeating Nalin Kumar Katil of BJP or any other party’s candidate.

he said that poor people have been suffering for years in Independent India without economic and social rights and this sorry situation needs to be remedied at any cost he is not confident that he will achieve everything that he promises now but he will do his best to serve the people who voted him as the new MP from the coastal city.

Dinesh J P Padukonaje, Harish Kumar Shetty Jakribettu, Sadashiva Mangalore, Jagadish Maroli, H Ismail Shafi, Parshvanatha Jain and many others were present during the press meet.