41-579: Youth Congress may refer to: Indian Youth Congress , the youth wing of the Indian National Congress World Youth Congress Movement , (1936-1940) American Youth Congress Canadian Youth Congress Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Youth Congress . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
82-456: A calf to protest against beef ban, Kerala Police on Thursday arrested eight people who were involved in the incident. Sanjay Gandhi Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 – 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician. He was a member of the Lok Sabha and was the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi . During his lifetime, he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of
123-625: A combined twenty-five point programme. Out of the five points, Sanjay is now chiefly remembered for the family planning initiative that attracted much notoriety and caused longterm harm to population control in India. Although he had not been elected and held no office, Sanjay began exercising his newfound influence with Cabinet ministers, high-level government officials and police officers. While many Cabinet ministers and officials resigned in protest, Sanjay reportedly appointed their successors. In one famous example, Inder Kumar Gujral resigned from
164-457: A couple could have without incurring punishment at the ballot box. But with democracy suspended, the IMF and World Bank encouraged Indira to pursue the programme with renewed vigour. Indira and Sanjay, the self-styled socialists, inflicting on Indians the humiliation of forced sterilisation in order to appease western loan sharks: the irony was lost on them. Socialism, like much else, had been reduced to
205-462: A significant exodus from Janata party to Charan Singh faction, Morarji Desai resigned as prime minister in July 1979. Charan Singh was appointed prime minister, by President Reddy, after Indira and Sanjay promised Singh that Congress(I) would support his government from outside on certain conditions. The conditions included dropping all charges against Indira and Sanjay. Since Charan Singh refused to drop
246-656: A slogan. Sanjay Gandhi escaped an assassination attempt in March 1977. Unknown gunmen fired at his car about 300 metres south-east of New Delhi during his election campaign. After losing the 1977 general election, the Congress party split again with Indira Gandhi floating her own Congress(I) faction. She won a by-election from the Chikmagalur Constituency to the Lok Sabha in November 1978. However,
287-406: A widespread compulsory sterilisation programme to limit population growth. The exact extent of Sanjay Gandhi's role in the implementation of the programme is somewhat disputed, with some writers holding Gandhi directly responsible for his authoritarianism, and other writers blaming the officials who implemented the programme rather than Gandhi himself. David Frum and Vinod Mehta state that
328-700: Is headed by Uday Bhanu Chib. There are 39 office bearers at the national level, followed by the state, Loksabha, Assembly and Booth level. In all, 174,000 committees have been formed at the Booth level. In the early seventies, the Youth Congress was mostly the work of Saiyid Nurul Hasan , who served as the education minister from 1972 to 1977. The organisation's most effective unit was the West Bengal Youth Congress, where its first elected president, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi , who transformed
369-700: Is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While prime minister, Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress Party, with the objective of doing social work . Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi
410-590: The Congress(I) in the next general election held in January 1980. Just one month before his death, he was appointed secretary general of the Congress Party in May 1980. Sanjay Gandhi and Brij Vardhan, accompanied by Jagmohan the vice-chairman of Delhi Development Authority (DDA), was reportedly irked during his visit to Turkman Gate in old Delhi area that he couldn't see the grand old Jama Masjid because of
451-552: The Indian National Congress and Prime Minister of India , but following his death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India and President of the party after her assassination . His wife Maneka Gandhi and son Varun Gandhi are politicians in the Bharatiya Janata Party . Gandhi was born in New Delhi , on 14 December 1946, as
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#1732772655301492-596: The Indian Youth Congress , his songs were banned on All India Radio upon Gandhi's insistence. Sanjay stood for his first election to the Indian parliament following the lifting of the Emergency in March 1977. This election saw the crushing defeat of not only Sanjay in his constituency of Amethi but also the wiping out of Indira's Congress party throughout Northern India. However, Sanjay won Amethi for
533-460: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting when Sanjay attempted to direct the affairs of his ministry and give him orders. Gujral is reported to have angrily rebuked Sanjay and refused to take orders from an unelected person. Gujral was replaced by Vidya Charan Shukla , a Sanjay Gandhi acolyte. In another incident, after popular Bollywood singer Kishore Kumar refused to sing at a function of
574-412: The Emergency were arrested. In the extremely hostile political environment just before and soon after the Emergency, Gandhi rose in importance as Indira's adviser. With the defections of former loyalists, Gandhi's influence with Indira and the government increased dramatically, although he was never in an official or elected position. According to Mark Tully , "His inexperience did not stop him from using
615-564: The Government of India had contacted Volkswagen as well, it did everything to pip the German company in the race to produce India's first People's Car ( Maruti 800 ). It provided the government a feasible Design of their 'Model 796', which was also successful in Japan and East Asian countries. In 1974, the opposition-led protests and strikes had caused a widespread disturbance in many parts of
656-695: The Indian version of the "People's Car", to emulate Volkswagen's worldwide success with the Beetle . During the emergency, Gandhi became active in politics and the Maruti project went on the back burner. There were accusations of nepotism and corruption. Finally, the Janata Government came to power in 1977 and "Maruti Limited" was liquidated. A commission was set up by the new government headed by Justice Alak Chandra Gupta which gave very critical report of
697-546: The Janata government's Home Minister, Charan Singh , ordered her and Sanjay arrested on several charges, none of which would be easy to prove in an Indian court. The arrest meant that Indira Gandhi was automatically expelled from Parliament. However, this strategy backfired disastrously. Her arrest and long-running trial gained her great sympathy from many people. Kissa Kursi Ka is a satirical film directed by Amrit Nahata that lampooned Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi. The film
738-491: The Janata party led Government of India, to enquire into excesses committed in the Indian Emergency found Sanjay guilty of burning the negative, along with V. C. Shukla , Information and Broadcasting minister during the emergency. The legal case ran for 11 months, and the court gave its judgment on 27 February 1979. Both Sanjay Gandhi and Shukla were sentenced to a two-year plus a month prison sentence. Sanjay Gandhi
779-541: The Maruti affair. A year after his death in 1980, and at the behest of Indira, the Union government salvaged Maruti Limited and started looking for an active collaborator for a new company. Maruti Udyog Ltd. was incorporated in the same year through the efforts of Nehru Gandhi family friend and industrial doyen V. Krishnamurthy . The Japanese company Suzuki was also contacted to present the design and feasibility of their car to be manufactured in India. When Suzuki learned that
820-600: The Morarji Desai government was bogged down by infighting. In 1979, the government started to unravel over the issue of dual loyalties of some members to Janata and the RSS . The ambitious Union Finance minister, Charan Singh , who as the Union Home Minister during the previous year had ordered arrest of Gandhi, took advantage of this and started courting different Congress factions including Congress (I). After
861-838: The charges, Congress withdrew its support and President Reddy dissolved Parliament in August 1979. Before the 1980 elections Gandhi approached the then Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid , Syed Abdullah Bukhari and entered into an agreement with him on the basis of 10-point programme to secure the support of the Muslim votes. In the elections held in January, Congress returned to power with a landslide majority. The Congress(I) under Gandhi swept to power in January 1980. Elections soon after to legislative assemblies in States ruled by opposition parties brought back Congress ministries to those states. Sanjay Gandhi at that time selected his own loyalists to head
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#1732772655301902-480: The country and badly affected the government and the economy. On 25 June 1975 following an adverse court decision against her, Indira Gandhi declared a national emergency , delayed elections, censored the press and suspended some constitutional freedoms for national security purpose. Non-Congress governments throughout the country were dismissed. Thousands of people, including several freedom fighters like Jaya Prakash Narayan and Jivatram Kripalani who were against
943-732: The death of Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi took over in charge of the Youth Congress. After he became prime minister in 1984, Rajiv Gandhi reduced the voting age to 18. Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 and was given charge of the Indian Youth Congress along with the National Students Union of India . The Indian Youth Congress has its headquarters in New Delhi and
984-653: The failure of the Government of Karnataka under BJP to tackle drought in 123 taluks and staged a mass protest in front of all taluk offices and locked the offices. A memorandum was submitted to Deputy Commissioner. In January 2013, a 17 kilometer rally was held in Kannur demanding the dissolution of BJP government for 'failing' to provide good administration and losing the support of the majority. On 14 January 2013 more than hundred Youth Congress activists staged protests across India against Pakistan and its army outside
1025-565: The governments in these states. Gandhi married Maneka Anand , who was 10 years his junior, in New Delhi on 24 September 1974. Their son, Varun , was born shortly before Gandhi's death. According to Maneka, Sanjay wanted to raise his children in the Zoroastrian faith of his family. At 8:10 a.m. on 23 June 1980, Gandhi lost control of his aeroplane while performing an aerobatic manoeuvre and crashed. Captain Subhash Saxena,
1066-404: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Youth_Congress&oldid=1243541356 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Indian Youth Congress The Indian Youth Congress
1107-502: The maze of tenements. On 13 April 1976, the DDA team bulldozed the tenements. Police resorted to firing to quell the demonstrations opposing the destruction. The firing resulted in at least 150 deaths. Over 70,000 people were displaced during this episode. The displaced inhabitants were moved to a new undeveloped housing site across the Yamuna river. In September 1976, Sanjay Gandhi initiated
1148-1391: The old customs gate at the Attari border over the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani forces. In August, 2012 the Pradesh Youth Congress Jammu and Kashmir launched a statewide protest against the Government led by National Conference for the implementation of the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution of India relating to Panchayti Raj in Jammu and Kashmir. The protests were led by J&K youth Congress president Mohammad Shahnawaz Choudhary. In January 2015, Indian National Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi directed nationwide protest against Land Acquisition Ordinance brought in by Indian Central government. The protest took place in various part of country. On 18 February, Indian Youth Congress protested against Vyapam Scam and Land Acquisition Ordinance near Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha where they were charged with water canon in which several youth congress volunteers were hurt and arrested along with Indian Youth Congress National President Amrinder Singh Raja Warring . Days after Youth Congress members in Kerala publicly slaughtered
1189-408: The party thousands of younger people, who used threats and force to intimidate rivals and those who opposed Mrs Gandhi's authority or his own." During the emergency, Indira declared a 20-point economic programme for development. Sanjay also declared his own much shorter five points programme promoting: Later during the emergency Sanjay's programme was merged with Indira's 20-point programme to make
1230-531: The power his mother, Indira, had taken to terrorise the administration, setting up what was in effect a police state." It was said that during the Emergency, he virtually ran India along with his friends, especially Bansi Lal . It was also quipped that Gandhi had total control over his mother and that the government was run by the PMH (Prime Minister House) rather than the PMO (Prime Minister Office). He "recruited into
1271-594: The state. Kunal Choudhary is the President of Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress. In 2012, Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress president submitted a memorandum to the Governor of Madhya Pradesh demanding dismissal of the State Government run by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not able to protect teenager girls and murders. In 2012, Youth Congress workers of Karnataka took out a procession in protest against
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1312-523: The sterilisation programmes were initiated at the behest of the IMF and the World Bank : Forced sterilisation was by far the most calamitous exercise undertaken during the Emergency. The IMF and World Bank had periodically shared their fears with New Delhi about the uncontrolled rise in population levels. India’s democracy was a hurdle: no government could possibly enact laws limiting the number of children
1353-734: The unit into a fulltime cadre, made it a body not to be ignored. During the Emergency , the organisation became an important body in the use of Sanjay Gandhi . The banning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh helped with adding members from the banned organisation. In 2001, several Youth Congress workers held Lalkar Rally around Parliament of India to protest against UTI Scam under National Democratic Alliance government and asked for resignation of then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee . In 2011, 2,500 Youth Congress activists rallied and protested in Calcutta against
1394-454: The victory over Pakistan in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War shifted public focus. The company did not produce any vehicles during his lifetime. A test model put out as a showpiece to demonstrate progress was criticised. Public perception turned against Gandhi, and many began to speculate about growing corruption. Gandhi then contacted Volkswagen AG from West Germany for a possible collaboration, transfer of technology and joint production of
1435-668: The violent attacks on its supporters by the All India Trinamool Congress party. In 2012, Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress organized civil disobedience movement in all 23 sub-divisions in Tripura as part of agitation to protest against the Left Front government's failure to provide employment, nepotism, rise of crime and atrocities against women in the state. This saw procession of 4,000 Congress workers and detainment about 25,000 Youth Congress activists across
1476-720: The younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi . Like his elder brother Rajiv , Gandhi was educated at St. Columba's School, Delhi , Welham Boys' School , Dehra Dun and then at the Doon School , Dehra Dun . Gandhi was also educated at the Ecole D'Humanité , an international boarding school in Switzerland. Gandhi did not attend university, but took up automotive engineering as a career and underwent an apprenticeship with Rolls-Royce in Crewe , England for three years. He
1517-589: Was denied bail. In his judgment, District Judge, O. N. Vohra at Tis Hazari in Delhi, found the accused guilty of " criminal conspiracy , breach of trust, mischief by fire, dishonestly receiving criminal property, concealing stolen property and disappearance of evidence". The verdict was later overturned. The Janata coalition under prime minister Morarji Desai was only united by its hatred of Indira Gandhi.The party included right wing Hindu Nationalists, Socialists and former Congress party members. With little in common,
1558-610: Was sent to the producer by the Information and Broadcasting ministry. In his reply submitted on 11 July 1975, Nahata stated that the characters were "imaginary and do not refer to any political party or persons". By the time, the Emergency had already been declared. Subsequently, all the prints and the master-print of the film at Censor Board office were picked up and brought to Maruti factory in Gurgaon where they were burned. The subsequent Shah Commission , established in 1977 by
1599-541: Was submitted to the Censor Board for certification in April 1975. The film had lampooned Sanjay Gandhi's car manufacturing plans, besides Congress supporters like Swami Dhirendra Brahmachari , private secretary to Indira Gandhi R.K. Dhawan , and Rukhsana Sultana . The board sent the film to a seven-member revising committee, which further sent it to the Government. Subsequently, a show-cause notice raising 51 objections
1640-526: Was the first president of the Indian Youth Congress who later became Minister of Broadcasting and Parliamentary affairs in the Indian cabinet ; Narayan Dutt Tiwari was the first President. Jitin Prasada was also the president of the Indian youth congress. During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi , the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning , and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths . After
1681-597: Was very interested in sports cars. In 1976, he obtained a pilot's licence and won several prizes in aerobatics. In 1971, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 's cabinet proposed producing an affordable, locally made car for India's middle class. In June 1971, a company known as Maruti Motors Limited (now Maruti Suzuki ) was incorporated under the Companies Act, and Sanjay Gandhi became its managing director despite having no previous experience, design proposals, or links with any corporation. Indira Gandhi faced criticism, but