Dimapur, November 13 (MExN): Indian Youth Congress membership drive is going on full-swing in Mokokchung district with Shuja Gandhi, Youth Congress Returning Officer camping in Mokokchung since November 1 last. Gandhi is also in-charge for the membership drive in Wokha and Longleng districts along with Mokokchung. Gandhi while interacting with Youth Congress workers of 23 Impur Assembly Constituency under Mokokchung district announced that the membership drive will be followed by “full organizational elections in the state of Nagaland.”
Gandhi also announced that all Youth Congress bodies in the state have been dissolved and that elections will be held for the Youth Congress leadership in the entire Booths’ in Nagaland. “It is an attempt to build the youth Congress organization at the grassroots level in every corner of the country,” he said. In the new set up, there will be a ‘Booth Committee’ at the grassroots level, above which will be the Assembly Committee and the State Committee of the Youth Congress.
The Youth Congress membership drive will go on until November 30, 2011 after which a voters list will be created and the election process for the ‘Booth’ level will commence. This will be followed by elections for office-bearers at the Assembly Constituency levels and the State level. All offices will be for a term of two years. Shuja Gandhi during the discussion with youth Congress workers also clarified that the candidate securing the highest votes during the ‘committee election’ will be elected president and the next highest vote garnering candidate elected as vice-president and so on. He also mentioned that a General Secretary post each will be reserved for members of SC/ST, OBC, Minority groups, Women and SC/ST Women.
It was also notified that only members enrolled by the last date of membership drive will be eligible to vote to elect the Youth Congress leadership, making elections the only route to leadership positions. Further, there will be ‘no nominations’ in the future for posts that remain vacant after the elections.
Gandhi also disclosed that the Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections (FAME) will independently audit the membership and election process, ensuring that it is impartial and open to participation for all.
This new model is portrayed as “the only way to galvanize the youth of the country to serve the nation, to represent the aspirations of a new generation of people that want to break away from the old and chart out a new course and a new destiny for themselves and for the nation.”
There will be a membership fee of Rs.5 SC/ST and OBC categories while the membership fee has been fixed at Rs.15 for general category. Interested members are to fill up a membership form to be submitted along with a recent passport-sized photograph, an Address Proof and a document as proof of age. Each member will be given a unique barcode.
Shuja Gandhi further made it clear that the aspiring members should be between the ages of 18 and 35. The cut-off date for membership is between November 3, 1976 and November 29, 1993. Further, he also mentioned that two Enrolment Coordinators (ECs) will be appointed for each assembly constituency by the 15th of October to assist the Returning Officer during the membership drive. For Impur Constituency, Repjen Mollier and Supongmeren were appointed as the ECs.
Gandhi also announced that all Youth Congress bodies in the state have been dissolved and that elections will be held for the Youth Congress leadership in the entire Booths’ in Nagaland. “It is an attempt to build the youth Congress organization at the grassroots level in every corner of the country,” he said. In the new set up, there will be a ‘Booth Committee’ at the grassroots level, above which will be the Assembly Committee and the State Committee of the Youth Congress.
The Youth Congress membership drive will go on until November 30, 2011 after which a voters list will be created and the election process for the ‘Booth’ level will commence. This will be followed by elections for office-bearers at the Assembly Constituency levels and the State level. All offices will be for a term of two years. Shuja Gandhi during the discussion with youth Congress workers also clarified that the candidate securing the highest votes during the ‘committee election’ will be elected president and the next highest vote garnering candidate elected as vice-president and so on. He also mentioned that a General Secretary post each will be reserved for members of SC/ST, OBC, Minority groups, Women and SC/ST Women.
It was also notified that only members enrolled by the last date of membership drive will be eligible to vote to elect the Youth Congress leadership, making elections the only route to leadership positions. Further, there will be ‘no nominations’ in the future for posts that remain vacant after the elections.
Gandhi also disclosed that the Foundation for Advanced Management of Elections (FAME) will independently audit the membership and election process, ensuring that it is impartial and open to participation for all.
This new model is portrayed as “the only way to galvanize the youth of the country to serve the nation, to represent the aspirations of a new generation of people that want to break away from the old and chart out a new course and a new destiny for themselves and for the nation.”
There will be a membership fee of Rs.5 SC/ST and OBC categories while the membership fee has been fixed at Rs.15 for general category. Interested members are to fill up a membership form to be submitted along with a recent passport-sized photograph, an Address Proof and a document as proof of age. Each member will be given a unique barcode.
Shuja Gandhi further made it clear that the aspiring members should be between the ages of 18 and 35. The cut-off date for membership is between November 3, 1976 and November 29, 1993. Further, he also mentioned that two Enrolment Coordinators (ECs) will be appointed for each assembly constituency by the 15th of October to assist the Returning Officer during the membership drive. For Impur Constituency, Repjen Mollier and Supongmeren were appointed as the ECs.
