HYDERABAD: In a bid to strengthen the party across the state, the state Congress leadership has taken up the exercise of attracting youth and to promote youth leadership in each of the district for consolidating the party by next general elections which are due in 2014. “Members of the families of ruling party leaders who include ministers, MPs and MLAs and who are interesated in politics will be invited to work for the party in their respective Assembly constituencies and the PCC would lend them support in order to further strengthen the party. In each district, up to 1,000 youths aged between 25 and 30 years will be identified and given importance in the party,” Pradesh Congress Committee president Botcha Satyanarayana has said.Talking to newsmen at Gandhi Bhavan here on Tuesday, the PCC chief, in reply to a query, asserted that there could be no heirs to a leader in politics as there were to property. Even those interested in politics would grow politically on the strength of their character and performance, and people’s support. They would get ‘positions’ only if they strove for strengthening the party in their respective areas, he said. Botcha had held a meeting with sons of state ministers and MLAs at Gandhi Bhavan on Monday and counselled them to resist the temptation to bite the bait thrown by others (referring to YSR Congress party of Kadapa MP Jagan Mohan Reddy).Asked about Jagan’s criticism of Congress government for the farmers’ woes, Botcha said there was no need for him to respond to such criticism since the government was sincere in its efforts to protect the farming community. He said the Congress would organise a workshop on farmers’ issues in Hyderabad shortly and invite agricultural scientists, experts, senior officials and ministers concerned.
Comments
0 comment