Youth Cong polls to begin May-end

According to sources,an extensive scrutiny is required in the state as the form rejection rate has been the highest in UP as compared to other states where Youth Congress has conducted elections according to its new pattern.

Interestingly,the Youth Congress has enrolled the maximum members in Tamil Nadu — close to around 14 lakh — of which around 1 lakh membership forms have been rejected due to missing information.

For the first time,Youth Congress has made it compulsory for each applicant to affix a photograph,give proper proof of age (below 35 years) as well as caste certificate.

In the UP Central zone,of around 5 lakh membership forms submitted during the membership drive in December 2009,just 3.03 lakh forms have been accepted and the rest have been rejected due to missing information.

“I admit that the membership form rejection rate is high here but the final figures are likely to change after the scrutiny as our returning officers would visit each Assembly in the Central zone to correct genuine complaints,” said Prakash Joshi,member of central election authority of Youth Congress.

“In order to make things easy for the members,we have put each and every form on our website http://election.iyc.in where each member after inserting his barcode will know the reason for rejection,” he added.

Varun in Sujanganj tomorrow
LUCKNOW: Bharatiya Janata Party’s national secretary and Pilibhit MP Varun Gandhi will address a public meeting at Sujanganj in the Jaunpur district of eastern UP on Sunday. Sujanganj falls in the assembly constituency of party MLA Seema Dwivedi. Party sources say that requests have been pouring in from Azamgarh,Varanasi,Siddharthnagar,Jaunpur,Mau,Basti,Gorakhpur,Behraich and Sitapur districts for Varun to address rallies after he became part of team Gadkari. Varun has included Jaunpur in the list and will also address the Aligarh public soon,said a party official. “Since there are many requests from eastern UP,he may plan more visits in the area. But that will happen only after June,” said the official.