The Hindu : Youth brigade asks Sonia for seat

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Thursday, Mar 18, 2004

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Youth brigade asks Sonia for seat

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, MARCH 17. Former Delhi Pradesh Youth Congress presidents and the present incumbent, Rajesh Lilothia, have written to the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, to allot at least one Lok Sabha seat in Delhi to one of them for contesting the May 10 elections here.

In the representation to Ms. Gandhi, former presidents Brahm Yadav, Jagdish Yadav, Kamal Kant Sharma and Jaiveer Naggar along with Mr. Lilothia have stressed the need to give an opportunity to the youth in order to send a positive signal across the country. Stating that they have served the party in various capacities from 1980 onwards, these youth leaders have stated that the young leaders should be encouraged to take on the communal forces and strengthen the secular forces. In their representation, the names of Mr. Brahm Yadav and Mr. Jagdish Yadav have been suggested from the Outer Delhi seat, Mr. Kamal Kant and Mr. Jaiveer Naggar from East Delhi and Mr. Lilothia from the Karol Bagh (SC) seat.

In fact, these leaders have suggested that they would be happy if only one of them is given the party ticket and the others would work for the success of that candidate. They said in the changing political profile of the nation and Delhi, the young voters had a very important role to play in who rules at the Centre.

These leaders have already raised this issue at the State level within the party and even made a representation to the AICC leader in-charge Delhi, Ahmed Patel.

"The purpose of the whole exercise is to draw the attention of the party leadership to the fact that it was important to incorporate young blood in the Parliamentary team and therefore the issue of representation to them should be taken up and decided at the highest level,'' they said.

The party and the State leadership had overlooked a number of these leaders during the recent Assembly polls in Delhi.

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