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| Type | Daily |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
| Publisher | Prajasakti Printers & Publishers Private Ltd. |
| Editor | Mallajosyula Venkata Subrahmanya Sarma |
| Founded | 1981 |
| Political alignment | Far Left |
| Language | Telugu |
| Website | http://www.prajasakti.com/ |
Prajasakti (also spelled asPrajashakti) is aTelugu newspaper that is published inAndhra Pradesh,India by theCommunist Party of India (Marxist). It started as a daily newspaper in 1981 withVijayawada as the centre. Currently it is being published with nine centres (or editions) atHyderabad, Vijayawada,Visakhapatnam,Tirupati,Khammam,Kurnool,Ananthapur,Rajahmundry,Srikakulam,Karimnagar andOngole. It has a wide network of over 100 primary news-gathering centers across the state.
Prajasakti was a borne child of the freedom struggle. It had its inception in 1942 and was published as a daily from 1945. No sooner it was subjected to repression by the British and was banned in 1948. It started again as a weekly journal in 1969 and took the form of a daily in 1981 with Vijayawada as the edition centre. It had grown very fast in the last decade and won the hearts of the toiling masses, workers and the middle class.Prajasakti forged ahead in an atmosphere when all progressive and democratic forces were facing an uphill task of struggling the onslaughts byimperialism.[citation needed] The second edition started in 1997 fromHyderabad, the third edition in 1997 atVisakhapatnam and the fourth edition in 2001 atTirupati, the fifth edition in July 2003 and the sixth edition atKurnool in November 2003, the seventh edition atRajamahendravaram in May 2005, eighth edition in September 2005, the ninth edition atSrikakulam in 2006, and the tenth edition atOngole in 2012.
Prajasakti is committed to the cause of oppressed people. At its very inception it was with the peasants' struggle in 1981.Prajasakti has always spearheaded the propaganda forsecular andprogressive values in thesociety.[citation needed] It strives for democratic values, and upholds the ardent struggle fordemocracy and a just living waged against the one-sided imperialistglobalization. It comes out with a scientific analysis on all contemporary, national and international issues.[citation needed]Prajasakti stands for the projection of all the just values and relentlessly fights anti-peoples policies,corruption,communalism and many issues that make the life of poor and middle class worse.[citation needed]
Prajasakti daily is a part of thePrajasakti Sahithee Samastha with its headquarters atHyderabad. It has a team with hundreds of journalists and professionals from the advertisement team, circulation department, software department and technical department and the editorial board headed byMallajosyula Venkata Subrahmanya Sarma as editor andY.Acthyutarao as chief general manager.Prajasakti daily is published at the Prajasakti daily printing press that caters the print requirement.Prajasakti daily extends its support to thePrajasakti Book House and thePrajasakti Publishing House, which are the centers for progressive literature inAndhra Pradesh.
