The Youth Congress president was on a mission to Kerala: talent search. The youth wing of the national party is practically inactive in several States. Hence was the need for the national leaders to visit the States in search of identifying suitable leaders for the State units.
In the olden days, youth congress leaders used to be elected from the lower levels and many an eminent leaders had come up that. This is no more the order of the day. The Youth Congress president and other office bearers being the nominees of Congress President Sonia Gandhi, they cannot think of elections. So, they decided to take a leaf from those organising scholarship examinations for students and from the corporates who hold interviews to recruit employees.
However, as soon as the interview team landed in Trivandrum, some youth congressmen themselves asked what was the qualification of the Youth Congress president, who got his position by nomination, to be the interviewer not to speak of the others. At least someone like Mani Sankar Iyer should have been included in the interview board.
The Senior Congress leaders in the State too were not happy with the proceedings of the Youth Congress president. They were going lose the chances of influencing the nominations if Youth Congress president selects people on merit. Opposition Leader Oommen Chandy just avoided a critical comment by stating that the Youth Congress was an independent organisation capable of decided its course!
February 2, 2009 at 2:35 am |
My name is Ash Kumar. I am ward secretary. Name of my panchayat is Thirupuram in Thiruvananthapuram. Here, the functioning of panchayat causes much sadness to me. Its working should be corrected.
February 2, 2009 at 5:57 pm |
Ash, I suppose, is talking about the party committee in the panchayat. The post has been edited for clarity to the extent possible.
July 10, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
That people can just write tests and get interviewed to be ministers and the like is laughable. This kind of thing might temporarily work in a feudal society like India when princes try to corporatise politics. Before long, the Prince would advertise globally to attract better talent from Italy etc into the Congress.
July 11, 2009 at 3:54 pm |
An interesting observation. The princely State of Travancore used to bring ‘Paradesi Brahmins’ for important posts such as that of Diwan.