With Congress already announcing to give prominence to young and fresh faces in the Assembly elections, the party has handed over the responsibility of managing the elections in 35 constituencies to the State youth Congress. The State Congress with an aim to have larger participation of youths in election so that active youth Congress contest election on Friday carried out a training session of youth Congress members.
The training session was attended by Krishna Allavaru, Youth Congress president and Joint Secretary, Indian National Congress and leaders from state youth Congress.
Allavaru said, “We have decided to give adequate representation to youth Congress in this Assembly election. We have discovered several youth Congress leaders having potential to win the election in ten to eleven seats. If there are chances of their winnability they will defiantly be given tickets.” Allavaru, who is lawyer by profession and associated with student politics since his days at the University of Delhi said, “The INC this time has given tickets to many youth Congress leaders in Haryana and Maharashtra, based on their potential and winnability. Same formula will be adopted in ticket distribution in Jharkhand too as the Congress believes in giving more representation to youths.” Krishna Allavaru, an LLM from Georgetown University lends his logical brain to IYC and points out the lacunae in the policies adopted by Modi Government. He said, “To attract youngsters the Youth Congress in July launched a campaign under which leaders from youth Congress were given task Assembly wise. The task is monitored at monthly basis as the first assessment was done in July followed by August, September and October.” Echoing the views of Allavaru, State Congress vice president, Kumar Raja said, “The youth Congress has given three task which is ways of interaction and attract youngsters to Congress fold. The three tasks are renewal of new voters, use of social media and constitution of booth committee and zone sector.”
Raja said under the renewal of new voters, the youth Congress are targeting such voters who are enrolled in voter list this time and the task is to bring these voters in Congress fold.Raja further said, “As the social media has emerged as biggest tool of mass communication in election, youth Congress has been asked to give much importance to social media.