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Youth Congress gets ready for polls

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, FEB. 18. The Chandigarh unit of the Youth Congress has stepped up its activities in view of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Recently, a Workers' Conference was organised here in which senior Congress leaders exhorted the youth to expose the acts of omission and commission of the NDA regime and gear up to take on the BJP in the City Beautiful. According to the president of the local unit of the Youth Congress, H.S.Lucky, the gathering at the conference was impressive.

And yesterday the activists descended on the busy Sector 17-Sector 18 traffic light crossing to express their displeasure at the Vajpayee Government's "failure" to provide jobs to the youth. Interestingly, they expressed their protest in a unique way by cleaning the windscreens of cars and selling newspapers to the people.

Mr.Lucky ridiculed the latest slogans of the BJP and asserted that the youth were feeling demoralised instead of feeling good. While dubbing the "India shine'' as mere propaganda by the BJP, he charged that Mr.Vajpayee had failed to generate the promised one crore jobs annually. He sharply flayed the present dispensation for abolishing old jobs.

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