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| Youth Congress eats a humble pie at PYC show | | | Kunal Shrivatsa
JAMMU, Dec 23: Nothing seems to be working in favour of Congress these days as the fortunes of the grand old political party of the country have nose-dived to such a level that getting into one trouble after the other has sort of become a permanent fixture for it. The intensity of the public anger against Congress could be gauged from the fact that even a programme organized by Pradesh Youth Congress (PYC) for elucidating opinion to formulate a separate youth manifesto for Lok Sabha poll- 2014 drew lot of criticism for the party on several issues.
The PYC show 'Open Discussion on Youth Manifesto Lok Sabha election-2014' was held on Jammu University campus with a purpose to generate a feedback of issues concerning the young generation of the state, however, the Youth Congress leaders had to eat a humble pie as they were almost unanswerable when various contentious issues including J&K Recruitment Policy, Lokpal Bill, 2G scam and Coalgate were raised during the debate by the participating students.
The panel of Youth Congress leaders including Incharge J&K PYC and Secretary Indian Youth Congress (IYC) Chetan Chouhan, President PYC Shahnawaz Choudhary, Vice President PYC Pranav Shagotra, General Secretaries PYC RS Pathania, Manjeet Singh Jatt and Abid Kashmiri, Jammu-Poonch Lok Sabha Youth Congress Presidents Satish Sharma had to face a volley of 'uncomfortable' questions and 'unpleasant' views.
Though the programme was conceptualized with an honest intention to gather youth's thoughts on drafting a special manifesto for them for the next general elections, it proved out to be a platform where one speaker after the other minced no words in taking a dig at Congress which reflected that youth are in no mood to take or consider party's programmes, ideas and policies kindly.
It was Rakesh Kumar, a MA Urdu student, of Jammu University, who stirred a hornet's nest by raising the recruitment policy of the state government. Rakesh was quite vocal in flaying the recruitment policy adopted by the state government as he termed it as a stumbling block for the highly qualified unemployed youth to seek government job since they are being offered salaries even less than what a present day peon in a government department is getting.
The views expressed by Rakesh and a thunderous applause he received from the students gathered there stunned the Youth Congress leaders, who had sensed the amount of outrage youth have for the recruitment policy and the state government, of which Congress is a part.
In a bid to convince the youth, Secretary IYC Chetan Chouhan asked General Secretary PYC, RS Pathania to clear party's stand on the issue. Pathania tried his best to satisfy the gathering over the issue but he was constantly booed by the students.
"I share your sentiments over recruitment policy… I am also against the policy but Youth Congress is neither a policy making body nor it governs the working of NC-Congress state coalition government… We express our fullest solidarity with the concerns of the youth and we will take a categorical stand before the Manifesto Drafting Committee that a clear stipulation reflecting revocation of recruitment policy should be mentioned in the manifesto for youth," Pathania said. It is pertinent to mention here that the State Government had drafted a new recruitment policy in 2011 for non-gazetted posts under which the appointees would be paid a stipend instead of salary for the first five years. The Government decision to implement the recruitment policy had evoked widespread criticism among the educated youth. |
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