Rahul Gandhi, who has often talked about going and doing it alone in key states like, Uttar pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, is a Prominent member of Draft Committee of the All India Congress Committee. Which Will finalize the political future of the congress at the plenary being held from December 18.
The young Congress General Secretary is among the twenty two members of the high level committee headed by senior leader Pranab Mukherjee, Which has been tasked to prepare the draft political, economical and foreign policy resolutions.
This is a second plenary after the UPA came to power in 2004 and first after 2009 Lok Sabha elections, in which the coalition retained power with congress crossing the 200 mark in the 543 -member Lok Sabha after a gap of over 15 years.
Prominent among those in the draft committee are senior leader like Arjun Singh, A K Antony, Digvijay Singh, P. Chidambaram and Jairam Ramesh.
However, the sub-committee which will finalize the draft resolution on political situations is headed by A K Antony.
The sub Committee on economic resolution is headed by Pranab Mukherjee and the another one on foreign affairs is headed by Commerce Minister Anand Sharma with External Affairs Minister S M Krishna being prominent member.
After the Sub-Committees finalize the draft resolutions, The Draft Committee will pass them.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Reach out to villages: Rahul tells Tamil Nadu Youth Congress
Chennai, Dec 23 (IANS) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Thursday urged cadres of the Youth Congress to reach out to villages and strengthen the party at the grassroots level so that the Congress can come to power in Tamil Nadu at a future date. Gandhi, on a two-day Tamil Nadu tour, met officials of the state Youth Congress at Tirunelvelli and Tirupur.
On Thursday morning, he reached Tirunelvelli from Madurai where he had spent the previous night.
Addressing the youth wing officials at Tirunelvelli, he urged them to focus their energies at the panchayat level so that the party can grow in strength.
He said the party’s youth wing cadres should meet the rural people and take remedial measures to alleviate their sufferings and ask them to follow only the Congress party’s ideals and policies and not of any other party.
Gandhi later reached Tirupur and met the Youth Congress officials there.
On Thursday morning, he reached Tirunelvelli from Madurai where he had spent the previous night.
Addressing the youth wing officials at Tirunelvelli, he urged them to focus their energies at the panchayat level so that the party can grow in strength.
He said the party’s youth wing cadres should meet the rural people and take remedial measures to alleviate their sufferings and ask them to follow only the Congress party’s ideals and policies and not of any other party.
Gandhi later reached Tirupur and met the Youth Congress officials there.
Rahul Gandhi A New Ray of Hope to 13 year old Rohit Dubey
Rohit Dubey, 13, an orphan and a school dropout making a living selling hair clips on local trains, can’t believe his luck. He is going back to school, and guess who will receive his annual progress report Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
The Gandhi scion spotted Rohit in a crowd of around 2,000 people on Sunday in Palghar, where he addressed a group of Youth Congress workers.
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Upon learning that the boy dropped out of school two years back after his parents passed away within two months of each other, Rahul asked Minister of State for Tribal Development Rajendra Gavit to not only have the boy readmitted to a school, but also left instructions that he be kept updated on the boy’s annual progress.
For Rohit, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hop onto a Virar-Dahanu shuttle after he saw a poster announcing Rahul’s Palghar visit (Saturday isn’t a great day for business on Mumbai locals anyway).
That decision has changed the course of his life.
It was almost like the universe was conspiring to put Rohit in the right place at the right time. At Aryan School ground, where Rahul was meeting party workers, Rohit was denied entry because he was not carrying a pass. He was disappointed, but decided to wait hoping he would get a glimpse of Rahul or at least his chopper when he left. But fate had more in store for him.
After the meeting got over, Rahul was walking towards his chopper when he suddenly turned around, broke security cordon and walked straight up to Rohit in the crowd. Touching the boy’s face gently, Rahul asked him his name and whether he went to school.
When Rohit told him he can’t afford school because he is an orphan, Rahul told his security officer he would like to talk to the boy alone and that he should be escorted to the pandal inside.
Rahul spoke to Rohit one-on-one for a minute or so. That one minute could well turn out be a very significant moment of his life.
Rohit’s Struggles
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His parents’ deaths were a big blow to Rohit. His father, a daily-wage construction worker, died of malaria in August 2009. There was no money to get him treatment.
His mom, who continued to fund Rohit’s education by working as a housemaid, succumbed to tuberculosis in October the same year. She too could not get any medical attention because the family had no money.
Though shattered by the turn of events, Rohit hardly had any time to mourn. Survival was the priority.
In November, he quit school and began looking for employment. Some friends told him that hair clips sell well on local trains. He checked with a trader in Dharavi, who asked for a deposit of Rs 500 before he could trust the boy with a few boxes of clips.
Rohit contacted one of his mother’s employers in Vasai. Since he would sometimes accompany his mother to the households where she worked, this particular Gujarati family knew him. They gave him Rs 500 and told him he need not bother repaying the sum.
Rohit began selling hair clips. He would do brisk business from morning to late noon the peak hours. On good days, he would make Rs 150. With four of his friends, Rohit shared a small room in a chawl in Nalla Sopara (east) for which they paid Rs 2,000 per month to the owner.
The cramped chawl room and sweaty ladies’ train compartments could now be in the past. Rohit is going back to school.
The minister has asked Rohit to meet him on February 2 with all school testimonials. “I hope to rejoin the Hindi-medium school I was studying in before my parents passed away,” he says, and then adds shyly, “If I make some money someday, I would like to visit my grandparents in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. They are poor farm labourers.”
The Gandhi scion spotted Rohit in a crowd of around 2,000 people on Sunday in Palghar, where he addressed a group of Youth Congress workers.
rahul gandhi
Upon learning that the boy dropped out of school two years back after his parents passed away within two months of each other, Rahul asked Minister of State for Tribal Development Rajendra Gavit to not only have the boy readmitted to a school, but also left instructions that he be kept updated on the boy’s annual progress.
For Rohit, it was a spur-of-the-moment decision to hop onto a Virar-Dahanu shuttle after he saw a poster announcing Rahul’s Palghar visit (Saturday isn’t a great day for business on Mumbai locals anyway).
That decision has changed the course of his life.
It was almost like the universe was conspiring to put Rohit in the right place at the right time. At Aryan School ground, where Rahul was meeting party workers, Rohit was denied entry because he was not carrying a pass. He was disappointed, but decided to wait hoping he would get a glimpse of Rahul or at least his chopper when he left. But fate had more in store for him.
After the meeting got over, Rahul was walking towards his chopper when he suddenly turned around, broke security cordon and walked straight up to Rohit in the crowd. Touching the boy’s face gently, Rahul asked him his name and whether he went to school.
When Rohit told him he can’t afford school because he is an orphan, Rahul told his security officer he would like to talk to the boy alone and that he should be escorted to the pandal inside.
Rahul spoke to Rohit one-on-one for a minute or so. That one minute could well turn out be a very significant moment of his life.
Rohit’s Struggles
rahul gandhi
His parents’ deaths were a big blow to Rohit. His father, a daily-wage construction worker, died of malaria in August 2009. There was no money to get him treatment.
His mom, who continued to fund Rohit’s education by working as a housemaid, succumbed to tuberculosis in October the same year. She too could not get any medical attention because the family had no money.
Though shattered by the turn of events, Rohit hardly had any time to mourn. Survival was the priority.
In November, he quit school and began looking for employment. Some friends told him that hair clips sell well on local trains. He checked with a trader in Dharavi, who asked for a deposit of Rs 500 before he could trust the boy with a few boxes of clips.
Rohit contacted one of his mother’s employers in Vasai. Since he would sometimes accompany his mother to the households where she worked, this particular Gujarati family knew him. They gave him Rs 500 and told him he need not bother repaying the sum.
Rohit began selling hair clips. He would do brisk business from morning to late noon the peak hours. On good days, he would make Rs 150. With four of his friends, Rohit shared a small room in a chawl in Nalla Sopara (east) for which they paid Rs 2,000 per month to the owner.
The cramped chawl room and sweaty ladies’ train compartments could now be in the past. Rohit is going back to school.
The minister has asked Rohit to meet him on February 2 with all school testimonials. “I hope to rejoin the Hindi-medium school I was studying in before my parents passed away,” he says, and then adds shyly, “If I make some money someday, I would like to visit my grandparents in Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh. They are poor farm labourers.”
Our focus primarily is to build leaders and not the organization.
In his address Shri Rahul Gandhi said “Our focus primarily is to build leaders and not the organization. If we are successful in developing you people as real leaders, the organization will automatically grow strong.”
UPCC Spokesperson Dwijendra Tripathi Told that In this two day meeting the NSUI leaders had a review of their work that they have done in the past few months. Every State President presented a review of the work that they had undertaken in their respective states. They also discussed and formulated their action plan for the next 3 months. These plans will be discussed when the team meets for the next National Executive.
Spokesperson Dwijendra Tripathi Told that The Uttar Pradesh Unit of NSUI had done a state wise survey on the condition of hostels meant for SC/ST students. The report made by the U.P NSUI states that the condition of SC/ST students is really bad because of apathy by the state government. Decision was taken in the National Executive meeting to take this programme nationally. The survey will now be done in every state and a massive agitation would be launched in states where government has turned a blind eye towards SC/ST students. National agitation launch will be done in Uttar Pradesh.
NSUI will hold its National Executive once in every three months in different cities across the country.
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