For each Lok Sabha seat, there will be a district level head who will be designated as a ‘Lok Sabha returning Officer’. This person will be assited by many ‘Assembly Enrolment Officers’ who will in turn be assisted by ‘officers at
each block’. These ‘officers’ will have two primary tasks. The first will be to try their best to ensure that money spent on social welfare and poverty eradication schemes actually reach the poor. Second, these officers will provide critical inputs on the character and prospects of potential Congress candidates for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. In Amethi, for instance, there are about 9,000 workers or ‘officers’ who are performing the dual tasks. Multiply that with 543 Lok Sabha constituencies and you are talking about half a million such officers spread across the length and breadth of India.
Rahul Gandhi has already insisted that posts will not be filled unless the right candidates are found. And – in typical Congress style – the ‘wrong’ candidates have been selected and appointed thanks to the coteries that swamp the Congress. For example, in January 2009, Chandan Yadav was selected the State Chief of the Youth Congress in Bihar. Within days of his appointment, it was discovered that he is ‘overage’. Yadav was asked to vacate the post within five days. Something similar happened even in Uttar Pradesh. Yet, this tortuous process has thrown up people who have no powerful family antecedents or other ‘credentials’ to their name. One such is Ashok Tanwar, the president of the Youth Congress. From out of the blue, Tanwar was given the ticket for the Sirsa seat of Haryana during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Surprise, surprise: he won by a handsome margin. Says Tanwar, “Hamen aur kaun mauka deta. Rahulji played a major role in getting a ticket for me. In the coming byelections in Bihar also, two members of Youth Congress have been given tickets.”
In fact, one such Congress nominated candidate Mukund Kumar for Kalyanpur describes how tough it is. He has been a ‘loyal’ Congress worker for a while in Samastipur district and was 12-year-old when the Congress was swept out of power in 1989 in Bihar. Mukund was an eager participant during the talent hunt programmes that Rahul Gandhi had launched a while ago. Out of thousands, 14 from Bihar were short listed for the post of Bihar Youth Congress president and summoned to Delhi. Mukund was one of these chosen 14. He was rejected. But thanks to a few good words from Ashok Tanwar, Mukund is finally an electoral aspirant under the new Rahul regime.
each block’. These ‘officers’ will have two primary tasks. The first will be to try their best to ensure that money spent on social welfare and poverty eradication schemes actually reach the poor. Second, these officers will provide critical inputs on the character and prospects of potential Congress candidates for Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. In Amethi, for instance, there are about 9,000 workers or ‘officers’ who are performing the dual tasks. Multiply that with 543 Lok Sabha constituencies and you are talking about half a million such officers spread across the length and breadth of India.Rahul Gandhi has already insisted that posts will not be filled unless the right candidates are found. And – in typical Congress style – the ‘wrong’ candidates have been selected and appointed thanks to the coteries that swamp the Congress. For example, in January 2009, Chandan Yadav was selected the State Chief of the Youth Congress in Bihar. Within days of his appointment, it was discovered that he is ‘overage’. Yadav was asked to vacate the post within five days. Something similar happened even in Uttar Pradesh. Yet, this tortuous process has thrown up people who have no powerful family antecedents or other ‘credentials’ to their name. One such is Ashok Tanwar, the president of the Youth Congress. From out of the blue, Tanwar was given the ticket for the Sirsa seat of Haryana during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. Surprise, surprise: he won by a handsome margin. Says Tanwar, “Hamen aur kaun mauka deta. Rahulji played a major role in getting a ticket for me. In the coming byelections in Bihar also, two members of Youth Congress have been given tickets.”
In fact, one such Congress nominated candidate Mukund Kumar for Kalyanpur describes how tough it is. He has been a ‘loyal’ Congress worker for a while in Samastipur district and was 12-year-old when the Congress was swept out of power in 1989 in Bihar. Mukund was an eager participant during the talent hunt programmes that Rahul Gandhi had launched a while ago. Out of thousands, 14 from Bihar were short listed for the post of Bihar Youth Congress president and summoned to Delhi. Mukund was one of these chosen 14. He was rejected. But thanks to a few good words from Ashok Tanwar, Mukund is finally an electoral aspirant under the new Rahul regime.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
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