The Hindu : YC leaders 'armed' to face polls

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Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003

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YC leaders 'armed' to face polls

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL JULY 15. A three-day training programme of the Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress began here on Monday with both the national president, Randeep Singh Surjewala, and the State unit chief, Meenakshi Natrajan, emphasising the need for inner-party discipline and unity keeping in view the coming Assembly elections in the State.

More than 400 district and block Youth Congress presidents have converged here to participate in the programme which will end tomorrow.

The significance of this event can be gauged from the fact that besides Mr. Surjewala, the inaugural session was addressed by the AICC secretary in-charge of Madhya Pradesh, Daljit Singh, State Congress president Radhakishan Malviya, Deputy Chief Minister Subhash Yadav, and Rajya Sabha member Suresh Pachouri.

The AICC spokesman, Satyavrat Chaturvedi, addressed the Youth Congress leaders on the failures of the Central Government. Also present at the session to recount the achievements of the Madhya Pradesh Government was the State Minister for Housing and Environment, Rakesh Singh Chaudhary. The mood appears to be upbeat in the Youth Congress camp after Mr. Surjewala's call to the Youth leaders on Monday that they should work to uproot the NDA Government at the Centre by telling the people about its "failure to meet the promise of creating one crore jobs annually''.

The Youth Congress strategy appears to be simple: instead of going on the defensive on the "development debate'' initiated by the Union Minister for Law, Industry and Commerce, Arun Jaitley, they should go into the "attack mode''.

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