Puducherry: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi
will have an interaction with Puducherry University students
here on Friday during a brief visit, seen as part of the Congress
efforts to strengthen party's youth base in the Union
Territory.
He is also scheduled to inaugurate a Rs two crore stadium
named after his father, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, on
the University premises.
The meeting with students is a closed door affair and the
press will be kept at bay, university sources said.
Gandhi will also greet newly elected office bearers of the
Puducherry State Youth Congress committee, party sources said.
“We want to ensure that the party's youth wing is
strengthened as they are the determining factor in any poll,”
Congress sources said.
Puducherry was the first State where the Youth Congress
committees were put in place through process of election from
the grassroot level.Each of around 70,000 members has been
issued the identity cards when the AIYC conducted the polls
here in July last year.
Rahul Gandhi will be on a second visit to Puducherry as he
had visited the Union Territory in March last setting the
roadmap then for the polls to set up youth congress
committees.
The Congress government in Puducherry is supported from
outside by DMK and three Independents.
PTI
First Published: Friday, February 05, 2010, 11:42