RAHUL GANDHI

New Delhi, Sep 30,The Congress Wednesday hailed party general secretary Rahul Gandhi for his efforts to introduce internal democracy in the student and youth wing of the party. “The efforts of Rahul Gandhi to introduce internal democracy by holding organisational election in the Youth Congress and National Students Union of India (NSUI) can be called as revolutionary from political point of view,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi told reporters. He was referring to a meeting of Rahul Gandhi with the newly elected body of NSUI in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) late Wednesday night. Singhvi said such efforts were the “part of the vision of the Congress party” and its president Sonia Gandhi to democratise the organisation. Rahul Gandhi, who is also in-charge of the youth wing, has introduced organisational elections party’s youth wing and student wings. Internal elections have already been conducted for different posts in youth wings in the states of Punjab, Gujarat...

New Delhi, Sep 30, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi late Tuesday visited the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus here and addressed a public meeting organised by the students wing of Congress party. Rahul Gandhi spoke at length on various issues including economy and education and said it would take some time before growth could trickle down and energise the economy. Responding to a query from the audience, he said, the industrial sector growth needs to be channelised for reforms in education and there is no point in industrial growth if its benefits do not reach the masses and resolve the common man’s plight. He also called for subsidising the education at all the levels. The meeting, held in the Kendriya Vidyalaya grounds in the university campus was organised by National Students Union of India (NSUI), the students wing of Congress party. Speaking to IANS, Manoranjan Mahapatra, a leader of NSUI’s JNU unit, said the recent efforts by Rahul Gandhi towards bringing more transparency in...