Indian Youth Congress - IYC



Indian Youth Congress - IYC



A.K. Antony, P. Chidambaram, Ambika Soni, Anand Sharma, Manish Tewari, Rajiv Satav, Randeep Surjewala, Maninderjeet Bitta, Narayan Dutt Tiwari, Suresh Kalmadi, Ramesh Chennithala, Vijay Inder Singla and Ashok Tanwar. The common between all these leaders is the ogranization called INDIAN YOUTH CONGRESS.

The Indian Youth Congress is school for many young, energetic, educated and dedicated youth of India, who want to serve the nation by playing the active & vital role in grass root level of constrictive, democratic political system.

The Indian Youth Congress is the official youth wing of the Indian National Congress Party. It was founded in 1947 so making it the oldest standing and functioning youth political organisation in the Republic of India. The first national president was Narayan Dutt Tiwari. It is currently the largest youth organisation in the world.

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress Party, with the objective of doing social work and arguing against right-wing parties. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was the first elected governor of the Indian Youth Congress; he later became Minister of Information and Broadcasting and Parliamentary affairs in the Indian cabinet.

During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi, the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning, and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths. After the death of Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi took over in charge of the Youth Congress. After he became Prime Minister in 1984, Rajiv Gandhi took a great decision for youth of india by reducing the voting age to 18.

Indian Youth Congress believes in the all core vision, function and all core ideologies of the Indian National Congress. The purpose of IYC is to see and focus concerns of the youth of India. The IYC attracts the youth to be future leaders in the main stream politics of India through Indian National Congress.

Youth Congress office bearers perform various program across nation for youth upliftment and awareness program. Recently the Punjab Youth Congress protested against the failure of the State Government to check the increase in sale of synthetic drugs and drug peddling in the state. There was an indefinite hunger strike for drug-free Punjab at Ludhiana. Earlier year, the Youth Congress had launched a massive campaign against chemists selling synthetic drugs all across the state.

The Indian Youth Congress has its headquarters in Delhi, after Ashok Tanwar, presently the organization is by Rajiv Satav. Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 and was given charge of the Indian Youth Congress along with the National Students Union of India.

The elections of the IYC are conducted by an organisation named Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections (FAME) which is headed by former election commissioner K. J. Rao who is assisted by former Chief Election Commissioners of India namely J. M. Lyngdoh and N. Gopalaswami to conduct transparent polls in the IYC.

Today members of IYC are the synonyms of ambition, commitment, dedication, energy, honesty, integrity, transparency and unity across the nation. In last assembly elections of 5 states, many IYC officer bearers were given an opportunity to contest an election and many of them emerged as a winner. Its not the candidate who are emerging as a new political leaders but it’s the new thought process that is emerging as the indian youth congress.