UP Youth Cong to reserve posts for women,SC/ST

These posts will be selected by a draw of lots. As many as 25 per cent posts of unit presidents will be reserved,half for SC/STs and half for women. That means three of the presidents in central zone will be SC/STs and three women. At all levels whether panchayat,Assembly and Lok Sabha constituency,and at the state level also,we will have reservation in the committees as well. Out of the 10 committee members at all levels,one post of general secretary would be reserved for SC/STs,one for women and one for OBCs or minorities, informed Prakash Joshi,UP in-charge of the Youth Congress Election Commission.

Former state Youth Congress president Yogesh Dixit informed that in the old structure,when district presidents were appointed by nomination,there was no reservation.

In order to give a boost to the membership drive,AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will visit all 26 districts of the central zone later this month. His three-day visit will focus on the membership drive of the Youth Congress in the central zone of UP, said Jitendra Singh,AICC secretary in-charge of the Indian Youth Congress. He said that about 1,500 persons will be involved in the conduction of elections.

K J Rao,general secretary of the Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections FAME,which has been appointed to conduct NSUI and Youth Congress elections,said that no one convicted in a criminal case would be allowed to contest.

Apart from those who have been convicted,we will not allow those against whom a court has taken cognizance of a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment of more than five years,or where a charge-sheet has been filed for any such offence, said Rao.