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Indian Youth Congress

Youth wing of the Indian National Congress

Youth wing of the Indian National Congress

FieldValue
colorcodeDeepSkyBlue
nameIndian Youth Congress (IYC)
logo[[File:Indian Youth Congress Logo.jpg200px]]
captionLogo of the IYC
presidentUday Bhanu Chib
general secretaryRahul Gandhi
founded
membership50 million
headquarters5, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, Delhi, India
internationalProgressive Alliance,
Socialist International
website

| regionalvice-chair = Socialist International The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress, with the objective of doing social work. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was the first elected president of the Indian Youth Congress who later became Minister of Broadcasting and Parliamentary Affairs in the Indian cabinet; Narayan Dutt Tiwari was the President from 1969 to 1971. Jitin Prasada was also the president of the Indian Youth Congress.

During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi, the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning, and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths. After the death of Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi took over in charge of the Youth Congress. After he became prime minister in 1984, Rajiv Gandhi reduced the voting age to 18. Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 and was given charge of the Indian Youth Congress along with the National Students Union of India.

The Indian Youth Congress has its headquarters in New Delhi and is headed by Uday Bhanu Chib. There are 39 office bearers at the national level, followed by the state, Lok Sabha, Assembly and Booth level. In all, 174,000 committees have been formed at the Booth level.

History

In the early 1970s, the Youth Congress was mostly the work of Saiyid Nurul Hasan, who served as the education minister from 1972 to 1977. The organisation's most effective unit was the West Bengal Youth Congress, where its first elected president, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who transformed the unit into a full-time cadre, made it a body not to be ignored.

During the Emergency, the organisation became an important body in the use of Sanjay Gandhi. The banning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh helped with adding members from the banned organisation.

Role in India

UTI Scam rally protest

In 2001, several Youth Congress workers held Lalkar Rally around Parliament of India to protest against UTI Scam under National Democratic Alliance government and asked for resignation of then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Protest against violent attacks

In 2011, 2,500 Youth Congress activists rallied and protested in Calcutta against the violent attacks on its supporters by the All India Trinamool Congress party.

Tripura civil disobedience movement

In 2012, Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress organized civil disobedience movement in all 23 sub-divisions in Tripura as part of agitation to protest against the Left Front government's failure to provide employment, nepotism, rise of crime and atrocities against women in the state. This saw procession of 4,000 Congress workers and detainment about 25,000 Youth Congress activists across the state.

Madhya Pradesh memorandum

Kunal Choudhary is the President of Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress. In 2012, Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress president submitted a memorandum to the Governor of Madhya Pradesh demanding dismissal of the State Government run by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not able to protect teenager girls and murders.

Karnataka drought failure

In 2012, Youth Congress workers of Karnataka took out a procession in protest against the failure of the Government of Karnataka under BJP to tackle drought in 123 taluks and staged a mass protest in front of all taluk offices and locked the offices. A memorandum was submitted to Deputy Commissioner.

In January 2013, a 17 kilometer rally was held in Kannur demanding the dissolution of BJP government for 'failing' to provide good administration and losing the support of the majority.

India-Pakistan border protest for Indian soldiers

On 14 January 2013 more than hundred Youth Congress activists staged protests across India against Pakistan and its army outside the old customs gate at the Attari border over the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani forces.

Implementation of 73rd and 74th Amendments in Jammu and Kashmir

In August, 2012 the Pradesh Youth Congress Jammu and Kashmir launched a statewide protest against the Government led by National Conference for the implementation of the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution of India relating to Panchayti Raj in Jammu and Kashmir. The protests were led by J&K youth Congress president Mohammad Shahnawaz Choudhary.

Kisaan Satyagrah against Land Acquisition Ordinance

In January 2015, Indian National Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi directed nationwide protest against Land Acquisition Ordinance brought in by Indian Central government. The protest took place in various part of country. On 18 February, Indian Youth Congress protested against Vyapam Scam and Land Acquisition Ordinance near Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha where they were charged with water canon in which several youth congress volunteers were hurt and arrested along with Indian Youth Congress National President Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.

Kerala Youth Congress Members Who Publicly Slaughtered A Calf

Days after Youth Congress members in Kerala publicly slaughtered a calf to protest against beef ban, Kerala Police on Thursday arrested eight people who were involved in the incident.

List of previous presidents

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date=2015-04-11title=Youth Congress emerges as a motivating political force in national eventsurl=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/19760915-youth-congress-emerges-as-a-motivating-political-force-in-national-events-819329-2015-04-11access-date=2025-07-24website=India Todaylanguage=en}}1962-
Puran Singh Azad--
N. D. Tiwari[[File:Shri Narayan Dutt Tiwari.jpg100px]]19691971Uttarakhand
Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi[[File:Priyaranjan Dasmunsi addressing at the inauguration of a workshop on Gender Equality in Indian Media being organized by the Ministry of women and child Development on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day.jpg100px]]19711975West Bengal
Ambika Soni[[File:Ambika Soni.jpg75px]]19751977Lahore, British India
Ramchandra Rath19781980Odisha
Ghulam Nabi Azad[[File:Ghulam Nabi Azad-cropped.JPG75px]]19801982Jammu and Kashmir
Tariq Anwar[[File:Tariq Anwar assuming office as Minister of State for Agriculture in 2012 (cropped).jpg100px]]19821985Bihar
Anand Sharma[[File:Anand Sharma - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012.jpg100px]]19851987Himachal Pradesh
Gurudas Kamat[[File:Gurudas Kamat.jpg100px]]19871988Karnataka
Mukul Wasnik[[File:Mukul_Wasnik_in_January_2010.jpg100px]]19881990Maharashtra
Ramesh Chennithala[[File:Ramesh chennithala.JPG100px]]19901993Kerala
Maninderjeet Singh Bitta[[File:Maninderjeet Singh Bitta (cropped).jpg100px]]19931996Punjab
Jitin Prasada[[File:The Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shri Jitin Prasada addressing at the International Literacy Day celebrations, in New Delhi on September 08, 2013.jpg100px]]19961998Uttar Pradesh
Manish Tewari[[File:Manish Tewari 2014.jpg100px]]19982000Punjab
Randeep Surjewala[[File:Randeep Surjewala.jpg100px]]March 2000February 2005Chandigarh
Ashok TanwarFebruary 2005February 2010Haryana
Rajeev SatavFebruary 2010December 2014Maharashtra
Amrinder Singh Raja Warring[[File:IYC President.JPG100px]]December 2014May 2018Punjab
Keshav Chand YadavMay 2018July 2019Uttar Pradesh
Srinivas BV[[File:Sriniavas BV adressing a meeting.jpg75px]]August 201922 September 2024Karnataka
Uday Bhanu Chib[[File:Uday Bhanu Chib.jpg100px]]22 September 2024IncumbentJammu and Kashmir

List of Current State Presidents

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Andhra PradeshRamarao Lakkaraju
Arunachal PradeshTarh Johnny
AssamZubair Anam
Biharसम्राट रिक्कू
ChhattisgarhAkash Sharma
GoaJoel Andred
GujaratShri Pravinsinh Vanol
HaryanaNishit Kataria
Himachal PradeshChhater Singh
JharkhandKeshav Mahto Kamlesh
KarnatakaH. S. Manjunath
KeralaO. J. Janeesh
Madhya PradeshMitender Singh
MaharashtraShivraj More
ManipurNingthoujam Popilal
MeghalayaAdrian L Chyne Mylliem
MizoramLalmalswama Nghaka
NagalandLima lemtur
OdishaRanjit Patra
PunjabMohit Mohindra
RajasthanAbhimanyu Poonia
Sikkim
Tamil NaduSurya Prakash
TelanganaJakkidi Shiva Charan Reddy
TripuraRakhi Das
UttarakhandSumit Bhullar
Uttar PradeshDipak shivhare
West BengalRajesh Sinha Sunny (State Incharge)
Andaman and Nicobar IslandsDiksha Dular
ChandigarhDeepak Lubana
Dadra Nagar Haveli
Daman and Diu
DelhiAkshay Lakra
Jammu and KashmirAkash Bhart
LadakhAamir Hussain lone
LakshadweepAjas Akber Puthiya Illam
MumbaiAkhilesh Yadav
PuducherryAnandhbabu Natarajan

References

References

  1. "Reform School: Can the Youth Congress expunge the sins of its fathers before it inherits their wicked ways?". [[The Caravan]].
  2. (25 September 2007). "Rahul Gandhi gets Youth Congress Charge". [[The Hindu]].
  3. (2013-11-28). "Booth committees in IYC". www.iyc.in.
  4. Jaffrelot, Christophe, and Pratinav Anil, 'An Era of Sultans: sanjay's emergency', India's First Dictatorship (2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 17 June 2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197577820.003.0005 , accessed 11 Mar. 2024.
  5. "IYC demands cases against Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on UTI scam". [[The Tribune (Chandigarh).
  6. "NDA Government's achievement, a litany of scams: Sorake". [[The Hindu]].
  7. "Youth Cong call to unseat NDA Government at Center". [[The Times of India]].
  8. "Youth Congress protest rally chokes south Calcutta". [[The Telegraph (Calcutta)]].
  9. "Congress holds silent rally in Kolkata against Trinamool". [[NDTV]].
  10. "Youth Congress rally to protest against Left Front apathy". [[The Times of India]].
  11. (28 August 2013). "सीहोर के कुणाल चौधरी युवा कांग्रेस प्रदेशाध्यक्ष बने".
  12. "Youth Cong demands ouster of State Government". [[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)]].
  13. "Youth Congress slams government's failure to tackle drought". [[The Hindu]].
  14. "Youth Congress stages protest in Karnataka". [[The Hindu]].
  15. "Mangalore: Youth Congress Launches Protest Rally Against BJP Govt". [[Daijiworld Media]].
  16. "Youth Cong takes up cudgels against BJP govt; organizes vehicle rally". [[Mangalore Today]].
  17. "Youth Congress rally on Jan 15 against misrule of BJP govty". [[Mangalore Today]].
  18. "Indian Youth Congress stages protest against Pakistan". [[Hindustan Times]].
  19. "YCC protests against killing of two Indian soldiers in Kashmir". State Times.
  20. "Youth Cong's 7-day ultimatum to Omar". [[The Kashmir Times]].
  21. [http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/rahul-asks-youth-congress-to-launch-kisan-satyagraha-meet-each-mp-mla/ Rahul asks Youth Congress to launch ‘Kisan Satyagraha’; meet each MP, MLA], 16 January 2015.
  22. "Youth congress protest at CM house in Haryana".
  23. (20 January 2015). "Youth congress protest at Deputy Commissioner's office in Shivamogga Karnataka".
  24. "Youth Congress workers protest at MP Vidhansabha".
  25. (June 2017). "8 Kerala Youth Congress Members Who Publicly Slaughtered a Calf as A 'Protest' Arrested".
  26. (2015-04-11). "Youth Congress emerges as a motivating political force in national events".
  27. (21 February 2024). "Zeeshan Siddique removed from Mumbai Youth Congress President post following father's defection to NCP". The Economic Times.
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