Cong to back youth in polls

THE CONGRESS State in-charge and former Rajasthan chief minister, Ashok Gehlot, has said the party would go into the forthcoming Assembly elections with young leaders in the forefront of the battle. This is the party formula to fight the caste and religion-based politics prevalent in Uttar Pradesh, he said. While talking to newsmen on Tuesday, Gehlot said the party was not weak at all in the State and results in the Assembly elections would prove this point.

THE CONGRESS State in-charge and former Rajasthan chief minister, Ashok Gehlot, has said the party would go into the forthcoming Assembly elections with young leaders in the forefront of the battle.

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This is the party formula to fight the caste and religion-based politics prevalent in Uttar Pradesh, he said. While talking to newsmen on Tuesday, Gehlot said the party was not weak at all in the State and results in the Assembly elections would prove this point.

“The party tends to encourage the young leadership in the Assembly elections and most of the candidates would be young. The party wants to present entirely a new breed of leaders before the masses,” he said. He was here to attend a party function organised at Rajiv Gandhi Nagar where leaders held long deliberations on party strategy.

Meanwhile, UPCC chief Salman Khurshid said over 60 per cent of the district unit heads would be changed before the State Assembly elections.
The decision, he said, was to infuse new blood in the leadership. This was for the first time that Khurshid had given clear indication for a total revamp of the district units.

Majority of district presidents likely to be axed are those who have been capturing the chair for more than two years.