Bangalore: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will arrive here this weekend to exchange notes with youngsters, techies and scientists on an apolitical platform on what they expect from parties as part of strategizing for the Lok Sabha polls.
Rahul Gandhi has invited more than 200 delegates, all of whom do not ascribe to any ideology or belong to any political outfit, from all the five southern states for the day-long discussion on SatÂurday. He has chosen Bangalore because of its sobriquet as the country’s IT hub, and because Karnataka is the biggest state after Andhra Pradesh in South India where the party is in power.
“Of late, youngsters are attacking every government on the social network.
This is a worldwide phenomenon. Be it welfare schemes, subsidies or politicians’ behaviour, they come under intense scrutiny on these platform.
So, he actually, wants to know, what the party should do to meet their expectations?
Therefore, this time he seems to have come up with this idea of interacting with every section before the party finalises its manifesto ahead of general elections,” sources in Congress said, refusing to accept this had anything to do with the rise of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Youth centric manifesto high on Rahul Gandhi
In an effort to gauge the minds of youngsters, scientists and IT and BT employees, AICC vice president, Rahul Gandhi is arriving later this week to interact with them in Bangalore in a preliminary exercise ahead of the preparation of the party manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls.
Rahul Gandhi has invited more than 200 delegates from all five southern states— Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
These delegates do not ‘ascribe’ to any ideology or belong to any party. This is an apolitical forum where he will discuss what youngsters want from parties in the country.
Revenure minister Srinivas Prasad interacts with department officials in Bangalore on Tuesday.
Speaking to Deccan Chronicle, a highly placed source in Delhi said, "Rahul Gandhi is leaving no stone unturned to know what is going on in the minds of youngsters. He knows that young voters will be the key to bringing the party to power in 2014. He will be holding a day-long discussion with these delegates on Saturday at Palace Grounds."
The source added that Rahul Gandhi has intentionally chosen Bangalore, for two reasons: first, this is the IT hub and secondly, this is the biggest state after AP in South India, where his party is in power.
"Of late, youngsters are attacking every government on the social network. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Be it welfare schemes, subsidies or politicians' behaviour, they come under intense scrutiny on these platform. So, he actually, wants to know, what the party should do to meet their expectation? Therefore, this time he seems to have come up with this idea of interacting with every section before the party finalises its manifesto ahead of the general elections," the source explained.
"Rahul Gandhi also feels the ‘non-involvement of people’ in policy making could be the major reason for the growing resentment and that is what he apparently wants to address," the source claimed.
