The National Youth Congress would conduct elections to various posts of the Odisha Pradesh Youth Congress (PYC) here from September 9 to 12.
Addressing a press conference here, Odisha Pradesh Youth Congress election-in-charge Sunnit Khanna said a total of 2,12,464 Youth Congress members would cast their votes in 31, 617 polling booths in the State. Five youth leaders would be elected from every booth. The elected booth leaders would elect 10 youths from among them in each Assembly constituency. The Assembly leaders would elect 10 from among them in each 21 lok Sabha segments. The leaders elected at the lok Sabha levels would then elect five State Youth Congress leaders.
The five seats include one for president, one for vice-president and three for general secretaries (one each reserved under OBC/Minority, SC/ST and Women category). The nominations would be filed for the booth committees on September 5 and 6 till 2 pm and the scrutiny would be conducted on September 6 from 3 pm onwards. Similarly, symbols would be allocated to candidates on September 7.