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Rahul Gandhi Advocates For Giving a Chance to Youth in Politics
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has got a firm belief in youth and his advocacy for the youth to be given a chance in politics will certainly be seen implemented in the coming state election. To begin with, several of these IYC elected members was given party nomination, even if they are not in a position to win, so that they gain experience in electoral politics in the long run.
In the last Lok Sabha election, Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi had actively lobbied for party nomination for the youth so that they get valuable experience. Several of them won bringing in a new dynamism in the party affairs.
Repeating his style of work, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi dispatched a letter to the city unit Congress telling them to distribute tickets to the youth. Congress icon Rahul Gandhi and the city unit Congress leadership went out of its way to distribute tickets to the youth. For the first time, about six candidates who are not even 30 have been given mandate to fight the civic elections. Former NSUI leaders, who till now were regular participants in the agitations in the university, can hope to become corporators. The Congress has tried to bring in the change which may alter political equations in the city politics.
A look at Congress and BJP lists makes it clear that the former is ahead of its rival in giving tickets to youth and freshers. Congress has given tickets to 63 youngsters below 40 years of age. As many as 19 candidates are below 50 years and only 32 seniors above 50 years of age have been favoured with party tickets. Of the 114 candidates selected, about 75 have never fought civic body elections.
Rahul Gandhi Scripting A New Political Era Of Hope, Development For People
NEW DELHI: August 26, 2010. Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi came, addressed and in many ways (most importantly, politically) further scripted a new era last week, for the entire spectrum of politics in UP.
His visit to Aligarh on Saturday (August 20), to address the farmers agitating against the Mayawati government on the issue of Yamuna Expressway project and the compensation package offered, has scored a major political triumph of ever-growing acceptance of Rahul Gandhi and thus, a solid road-map for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
In fact, for the past few months, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has been seen in this northern state as the politician who means real business, for overall development of one and all, with everyone’s rights protected.
In April, he held a rally in Ambedkar Nagar to commemorate the 119th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar and on the occasion, also launched the ‘Chetna Yatra’ to mark the 125 years of the Congress, in all 403 Assembly segments in the state for spearheading the Congress’s political view points.
He triumphed over all odds in the background of the state government not keen to permit him to hold a rally in Ambedkar Nagar, as being slated to be a stronghold of UP chief minister Mayawati but also the occasion being the birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, for politically vested designs by Mayawati.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi was not deterred with the state government’s diktats in regard to holding a rally here. He amply scored a point as the turnout in the rally being huge with about a lakh people in attendance.
Youth Can Help India to Get Rid of Corruption
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today made Haryana his latest stop in his ongoing effort to strengthen the Youth Congress and National Students Union of India (NSUI) membership drive.
Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi today came in Haryana to hold an interactive session with the students of Haryana. He went as scheduled to three districts namely Hisar, Kurukshetra and Karnal of Haryana. It was a hectic day for him as he went along the three districts on a “youth connect” mission. In his first interactive session at Chaudhary Charan Singh Agricultural University in Hisar, he met a large number of students who had a lot of questions for the young MP.
In Kurukshetra, he held an interactive session with the students of Kurukshetra University and answered all the questions asked by the students. He asked students to join NSUI as a means to represent the youth and serve the nation as well. Rahul Gandhi gave emphasis on the joining of youth with the politics.
On being asked about why he joined politics, he replied “I have joined politics because of my family. But, I do not want this tradition to go on further. I sincerely want educated youth like you to come forward and join politics, so that the change could take place in the system.”
Countrywide talent hunt has been the objective of Rahul Gandhi ever since he has plunged into politics. He initiated this programme keeping in view that the reluctant youth would join the programme once they become assured that they can also get space in political parties without having any political godfathers. To drive it home, he has roped in the Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections (FAME), an NGO headed by former chief election commissioner J M Lyngdoh. To cpnduct the elections.
Rahul Gandhi: A System Being Put in Place to Ensure Free And Fair Organizational Elections in Nsui.
NEW DELHI: August 26, 2010. Conducting organizational elections for the frontal set-ups National Students Union of India (NSUI) and the Youth Congress (YC), is complex but then a system has been evolved to overcome it by Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.
“To ensure free and fair process with no space for any kind of discrimination, we have introduced a system to this effect, so that those keen to join politics and have clean backgrounds, get inducted in NSUI and YC,” elaborates Congress General Secretary.
“We have opened the doors of both NSUI and YC, for all those keen to enter politics and have no criminal past. Also, by doing so, we are providing an opportunity to all those who are having no connections or friends in political corridors, which till recently has been the major factor for entry,” remarks Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Delving further on the system for the process to strengthen the organizational structures of both NSUI and YC, he says that an NGO has been formed which is being managed by former election commissioner J.M. Lyngdoh and K. J. Rao. Only after due certification from these two former election commissioners about candidature, a person is allowed to contest the organizational election of NSUI and YC, said Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.
To a question sometimes posed to him by some students that distance between the politics and the youth in the country is widening, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi says that it is not true. He cites the case of Tamil Nadu and says before membership drive there were only about 30,000 to 40,000 members of YC in the state and now, the same has gone up to around 15 lakhs.
Rahul Gandhi Visits
Ramnagar (Uttarakhand)
Rahul Gandhi on Monday called himself a “symptom” of the ills of Indian politics — dynasty, patronage, money — even as his stance on OBC quota in Central educational institutions as also safety of women in Delhi betrayed his unease with the functioning of two family loyalists, Union Human Resource Minister Arjun Singh and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
In an interaction with girl students at a resort adjoining Jim Corbett National Park here, he termed politics as a “closed system” and said, “If I had not come from my family, I wouldn’t be here. You can enter the system either through family or friends or money. Without family, friends or money, you cannot enter the system. My father was in politics. My grandmother and great grandfather were in politics. So, it was easy for me to enter politics. This is a problem. I am a symptom of this problem. I want to change it,” said the AICC general secretary referring to his decision to introduce internal democracy and elections in the Indian Youth Congress and the NSUI.
Bundelkhand visit :
For the first time after the Gujarat debacle, Rahul Gandhi will find himself in the thick of political action on January 17 in the much tougher terrain of Bundelkhand. The demand for a separate state of Bundelkhand, which falls in Uttar Pradesh and some parts of Madhya Pradesh, is soon going to become a new divisive issue in the nation. The Congress has decided to back the demand for a separate state of Bundelkhand.
Young Hope Of India ‘rahul’ Turns 40
With Congress General secretary turning 40 on 19th June 2010 , the future of Indian politics turns 40.
What makes Rahul even more younger are his ideas for the future politics, Education system, developmental schemes, Unity and of course the fact that he is still a bachelor.
Rahul Gandhi became the youngest member of the Nehru-Gandhi family to enter active politics when he contested and won a seat in the lower house of the Parliament of India in 2004.
The name Rahul Gandhi has become synonymous with the new face of Indian politics; a young brand of highly motivated and influential politicians, aiming to highlight India’s position as a global frontrunner.
To mark the occasion of his 40th birthday, the state unit of the Congress will take out padyatras or marches in every district of Uttar Pradesh Saturday and also organise blood donation camps to mark the birthday of party general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
The NSUI and the Youth Congress activists have organized several programmes to celebrate Rahul’s birthday throughout the country.
Today Rahul Gandhi inspires not only common youth(by the way he doesn’t believe in the concept of Common man/Uncommon man) , but also the young actors like Ranbir Kapoor who say that Rahul’s mannerisms help him to prepare for his role and also that Rahul Gandhi has been a change in the sense that earlier no body could imagine having a politician moving around freely leaving his Z security behind.
Other praises –