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Cong`s young brigade toast Rahul for party`s stunning show
New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) As Congress savoured the stunning
win in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) elections,
Rahul Gandhi was Sunday the toast of its young leaders who
crediting the party's best showing in 18 years to his strategy
of playing the youth and development card.
Significantly, several young Congress candidates picked
by the 39-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family tasted
victory with some of them making a debut in Parliament.
The success of Rahul's strategy in Congress going alone
in northern state of Uttar Pradesh even triggered calls by
former chief minister of western state of Maharashtra Vilasrao
Deshmukh that the party should follow this pattern in the
coming Assembly elections in the state where it is in alliance
with Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Young Congress Member of Parliaments (MP) took the lead
in paying handsome praise to Rahul for successfully taking the
battle into rival camps, especially in Uttar Pradesh, to help
the party become a serious player in the crucial state where
it has remained in the sidelines for two decades.
Congress bagged 21 seats in Uttar Pradesh in a House of
80 ahead of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) as against nine in the 2004 polls.
"People have appreciated Rahul Gandhi's leadership...
Many youth leaders have been elected from across the country.
Credit goes to Congress Party for bringing the youths to the
forefront,"Congress leader Sachin Pilot said.
Another young MP Jiten Prasad also gave credit to
Rahul's leadership.
Former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal's grand daughter
Shruti Choudhry, who humbled Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD)
senior leader Ajay Chautala and Punjab's Youth Congress
president Ravneet Singh Bittu who won from Anandpur Sahib,
said Rahul's "dynamic leadership" in giving prominence to the
youth in the elections made the "difference."
"I think my victory and that of other young Congress
candidates has a lot to do with the dynamic leadership of
Rahulji, which has made the difference," said 33-year-old
Shruti, a first-timer who won from the Bhiwani-Mahendergarh
seat in northern state of Haryana.
"People have shown great faith in the young leaders and it
is now our turn to deliver," said Shruti, daughter of
Haryana's Tourism Minister Kiran Choudhry.
Bittu, grandson of former Punjab chief minister late
Beant Singh, who was Rahul's choice, attributed his success to
the Congress general secretary's leadership qualities.
"It was his vision to have elected Youth Congress bodies,
which has paid dividends. For the first time the youth which
comprise a major chunk of country's population felt that they
were being given their due for their hard work".
Another young candidate who was Rahul's choice and won the
Lok Sabha elections this time is Indian Youth Congress
president Ashok Tanwar, a first-timer who won from the Sirsa
(SC) parliamentary seat in Haryana.
He said the young leadership of Rahul Gandhi has been
fancied by the youths, who have voted for him in large
numbers.
Taking note of Rahul's major role in shaping Congress
campaign in UP, a senior party leader said "Rahul Gandhi has a
clear cut plan for the party in the state on which he has
moved on without wasting any time on the euphoria over
winning 21 seats.
Unfazed by the dismal showing by the Congress in the 2007
UP assembly elections, Rahul led the campaign from the front
addressing election meetings in 14 constituencies of which
Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Gonda, Pratapgarh, Jhansi, Barabanki,
Dhaurara, Bareilly and Moradabad have been won by the
Congress. He had campaigned extensively in UP.
In central state of Madhya Pradesh, young Congress
leaders helped the party in improving its political fortunes
defeating BJP's veterans. The Congress increased its tally
from four in 2004 to 12.
Even before the Lok Sabha polls were announced, analysts
had a doubt whether Congress will win more than four seats.
But the party played smart and sensed that there was
resentment among the BJP cadres over the nomination of the
party's sitting MPs from a number of seats and therefore
fielded relatively young candidates specially in the Malwa
region.
This resulted in the defeat of BJP veterans like
eight-time MP Dr Laxmi Narayan Pandey from Mandsaur by
Rahul Gandhi's trusted youth leader, Meenakshi Natrajan.
It was Natrajan's maiden attempt in the electoral field.
PTI
win in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) elections,
Rahul Gandhi was Sunday the toast of its young leaders who
crediting the party's best showing in 18 years to his strategy
of playing the youth and development card.
Significantly, several young Congress candidates picked
by the 39-year-old scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family tasted
victory with some of them making a debut in Parliament.
The success of Rahul's strategy in Congress going alone
in northern state of Uttar Pradesh even triggered calls by
former chief minister of western state of Maharashtra Vilasrao
Deshmukh that the party should follow this pattern in the
coming Assembly elections in the state where it is in alliance
with Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
Young Congress Member of Parliaments (MP) took the lead
in paying handsome praise to Rahul for successfully taking the
battle into rival camps, especially in Uttar Pradesh, to help
the party become a serious player in the crucial state where
it has remained in the sidelines for two decades.
Congress bagged 21 seats in Uttar Pradesh in a House of
80 ahead of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) as against nine in the 2004 polls.
"People have appreciated Rahul Gandhi's leadership...
Many youth leaders have been elected from across the country.
Credit goes to Congress Party for bringing the youths to the
forefront,"Congress leader Sachin Pilot said.
Another young MP Jiten Prasad also gave credit to
Rahul's leadership.
Former Haryana chief minister Bansi Lal's grand daughter
Shruti Choudhry, who humbled Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD)
senior leader Ajay Chautala and Punjab's Youth Congress
president Ravneet Singh Bittu who won from Anandpur Sahib,
said Rahul's "dynamic leadership" in giving prominence to the
youth in the elections made the "difference."
"I think my victory and that of other young Congress
candidates has a lot to do with the dynamic leadership of
Rahulji, which has made the difference," said 33-year-old
Shruti, a first-timer who won from the Bhiwani-Mahendergarh
seat in northern state of Haryana.
"People have shown great faith in the young leaders and it
is now our turn to deliver," said Shruti, daughter of
Haryana's Tourism Minister Kiran Choudhry.
Bittu, grandson of former Punjab chief minister late
Beant Singh, who was Rahul's choice, attributed his success to
the Congress general secretary's leadership qualities.
"It was his vision to have elected Youth Congress bodies,
which has paid dividends. For the first time the youth which
comprise a major chunk of country's population felt that they
were being given their due for their hard work".
Another young candidate who was Rahul's choice and won the
Lok Sabha elections this time is Indian Youth Congress
president Ashok Tanwar, a first-timer who won from the Sirsa
(SC) parliamentary seat in Haryana.
He said the young leadership of Rahul Gandhi has been
fancied by the youths, who have voted for him in large
numbers.
Taking note of Rahul's major role in shaping Congress
campaign in UP, a senior party leader said "Rahul Gandhi has a
clear cut plan for the party in the state on which he has
moved on without wasting any time on the euphoria over
winning 21 seats.
Unfazed by the dismal showing by the Congress in the 2007
UP assembly elections, Rahul led the campaign from the front
addressing election meetings in 14 constituencies of which
Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Gonda, Pratapgarh, Jhansi, Barabanki,
Dhaurara, Bareilly and Moradabad have been won by the
Congress. He had campaigned extensively in UP.
In central state of Madhya Pradesh, young Congress
leaders helped the party in improving its political fortunes
defeating BJP's veterans. The Congress increased its tally
from four in 2004 to 12.
Even before the Lok Sabha polls were announced, analysts
had a doubt whether Congress will win more than four seats.
But the party played smart and sensed that there was
resentment among the BJP cadres over the nomination of the
party's sitting MPs from a number of seats and therefore
fielded relatively young candidates specially in the Malwa
region.
This resulted in the defeat of BJP veterans like
eight-time MP Dr Laxmi Narayan Pandey from Mandsaur by
Rahul Gandhi's trusted youth leader, Meenakshi Natrajan.
It was Natrajan's maiden attempt in the electoral field.
PTI
