Congress leader Rahul Gandhi press conference in Jaipur (Part 1),25th Nov. 2009

Interacting with the media at Jaipur after his two day Rajasthan visit Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi said that he is in Rajasthan with one focus and that is to strengthen the Youth Congress and NSUI. Elaborating on his role he called himself a 'catalyst' and at the age of 39 found himself old enough to be called youngster. On a question related to reservation he said that more and more focus should be on supply of education which means more and more educational Institutions and facilities for youngsters.

Talking about the organizational elections being held in the Youth Congress, Congress General Secretary said, We started this from Punjab, then Gujarat and then Pondicherry. We also did the same in Tamil Nadu, and now same is going on in Tripura, Rajasthan, UP and other states. There are two thoughts behind this process; first more and more youth should join these organizations and second democratization of these organization which will give them space to raise their voice. For that reason I am here and we are getting good response in Rajasthan. As this process is gearing up, so does its response increasing. . When we started up in Punjab, we had just around 30 thousand members but after elections we jumped to around 3.5 lakhs, getting more than ten fold increase in the membership. After Punjab we did it in Gujarat and added around 7.5 lakhs member. Thereafter, we did it in Pondicherry and in Tamil Nadu; in Tamil Nadu we added up around 14.5 lakhs members. So, this is showing a good progress. It is a matter of happiness to see the youth involved in such a huge number and a new dynamism has entered into the Youth Congress and the NSUI.

Congress General Secretary said that in the Youth Congress and the NSUI there are adequate number of seats reserved for adivasis, Dalits, women and minorities. He said, Our system is not a winner take all system. The system we follow is that; the top 10 persons at Panchayat, block or district level is selected in our system. We have certain number of seats reserved for adivasis, Dalits, women and minorities. Our idea is to send the leaders to assemblies, Loksabha or district bodies having a support base in Youth Congress. We dont think that if one has won, then rest are losers.Googles annual publication, Google Zeitgeist showcasing trends of internet users for its search engine services reveals that Indian internet users searched for Rahul Gandhi as under the politician category.

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