The Hindu : BJP to cash in on youth power

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Thursday, Jul 17, 2003

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BJP to cash in on youth power

By Our Staff Correspondent

BHOPAL JULY 16. The Madhya Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to mobilise members of its youth wing, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), for a door-to-door campaign across more than 50,000 villages to convey to the people that "the youth have suffered the most'' in the State during the last ten years.

The BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate, Uma Bharati, national general secretary, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, and the State unit BJYM president, Kamal Patel, at a joint Press conference at the end of a brainstorming session today to discuss the level of the Morcha's involvement in the coming elections, said the focus was on highlighting the role to be played by the youth wing.

While asserting that the younger generation has suffered the most due to severe unemployment, Ms. Bharati told newsmen that the youth would be playing a pivotal role in forming the next Government in the State. The door-to-door campaign over the next three months would be utilised to draw up a village-wise resource map, which would be used to create a blue print for employment generation once the BJP comes to power, she added.

``The people of Madhya Pradesh, particularly the youth, have suffered immensely due to the electricity crisis, bad roads, rampant corruption and drinking water shortage. The younger generation has been the worst affected since there is no social security and the job scenario is utterly bleak,'' Ms. Bharati said.

To a pointed query about the State Government's recent decision to impose a collective fine on OBC residents of five villages on charges of destroying standing crops on land distributed to landless Dalits, Ms. Bharati said, "Collective fine would not serve the Dalits' interest.''

Briefing newsmen on the BJP's "door-to door and village-to-village'' campaign, the party general secretary, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, said that "the BJYM workers are ready to knock at every door in each of the 51000 villages in the State''.

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