We need a free and fare election system within the parties : Rahul Gandhi

We need a free and fare election system within the parties : Rahul Gandhi

Jan 19, 2010

While interacting with media persons on 19th January 2010 Congress General secretary Rahul Gandhi on the concluding day of his two-day tour of Madhya Pradesh, said 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.

"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," elaborated Congress General Secretary.Citing the case of Tamil Nadu, he said in the organizational election for YC, about 1,000 activists, enrolled after fair scrutiny, are taking part.

"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," remarked Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.

Delving further on the system for the process to strengthen the organizational structures of both NSUI and YC, he said 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.

To a question that distance between the politics and the youth in the country is widening, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said that it was not true. He cited the case of Tamil Nadu and said 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.

"For the past one-and- half year, we are in the process of introducing a system for free and fair elections for our frontal organizations, NSUI and YC. It has been a complex exercise as we experienced in Punjab, Gujarat and Puducherry and Tamil Nadu but we have put forward our best efforts to eliminate those flaws, to ensure free and fair process of induction of members into these two frontal outfits of our party," added Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who remarked no

other political parties are doing so.

Sometime ago, there was a viewpoint that in three months' time, organizational election for the YC in the country could be managed, he said. "I said no, as it would entail corruption, as it requires a

proper system for the process to take place," remarked Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi to the media persons.

" So, if someone asks me for an organizational election for the Congress party, I would say no, as the need first is to put in place a system for conducting such exercise, with planning and proper

management," elaborated Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.

Every five years, we have elections in the country but no political parties, have any elections for their respective organizational set-ups, he said, adding that only NSUI and YC of the Congress conduct

free and fair organizational elections.

"Truth is that my father, grand father and grand mother were in politics and if they were not in politics, I would not have been in politics as well, so I am also a product of the system," he said. "We

have to democratize the process and we are not just talking about this change', but actually doing the same," he remarked. Elected leaders in NSUI and YC in Punjab, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, were earlier hardly known to him but now they have been inducted, he said.

To a question that Bundelkhand should be made a separate state, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said that he never said so but had said that Bundelkhand was a backward region, which has been handled badly by the state governments in UP and MP. Opposition parties are running these state governments and both are responsible for sorry state of affairs in Bundelkhand, he said.

"In the last year of NDA regime, Rs 1,000 crore was given from the Centre to MP but we have allocated Rs 6,000 crore and if the MP government is complaining of lack of funds from New Delhi, it is not correct," he said, questioning as why over Rs 1,000 crore have been left un-utilised by MP.

"Our dilemma in Delhi is that money sent by the Centre is not reaching common man in MP. It pains me immensely when I see huge migration from Bundelkhand region to places like Delhi and other regions in the country for livelihood," said Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.

When asked about soaring prices and high rate of inflation causing hardships for common man in the country, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said that not something had gone wrong but there has been a cyclic change. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had been apprised of the situation by him and shortly, the problem would be solved, assured Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi.

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