Parties' student wings mobilise people at grassroots level
JAIPUR: With the Lok Sabha elections around the corner, student wings have swung into action. Parties are relying on their youth wings to mobilize the people at grassroot level. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the student wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) recently organised a ‘Rath Yatra’ where the members promoted messages of their party amongst people.
In this Rath Yatra, members of ABVP went to college campuses, district and city centres covering almost the entire state.
Rajasthan secretary of ABVP, Hushyaar Meena said, “Student wing has the responsibility of promoting the message of the party among youth and the common people. In our yatra we divided teams in three parts to mobilize people in colleges, city and district centres. We were targeting of going to 100 places in one district and tried to cover almost the entire state. We tried to motivate people to vote and asked them not to waste their vote by pressing NOTA. We conducted street plays, shouted slogans like ‘Parivaarvaad Mitana hai’, went door-to-door for voters’ awareness campaign. The yatra was concluded at Rajasthan University.” ABVP has around 3 lakh members and 30 state secretaries in Rajasthan, most of whom are busy with the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Rajasthan secretary of ABVP, Hushyaar Meena said, “Student wing has the responsibility of promoting the message of the party among youth and the common people. In our yatra we divided teams in three parts to mobilize people in colleges, city and district centres. We were targeting of going to 100 places in one district and tried to cover almost the entire state. We tried to motivate people to vote and asked them not to waste their vote by pressing NOTA. We conducted street plays, shouted slogans like ‘Parivaarvaad Mitana hai’, went door-to-door for voters’ awareness campaign. The yatra was concluded at Rajasthan University.” ABVP has around 3 lakh members and 30 state secretaries in Rajasthan, most of whom are busy with the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
National Students Union of India (NSUI), the students’ wing of Indian National Congress on the other hand has been given the target to focus on 2-5 constituencies in the state by the Congress government during the Lok Sabha elections. This strategy is adopted at the national level in which state NSUI around the country will be given 50 constituencies in total on which the student wing will focus.
Abhimanyu Punia, Rajasthan state president of NSUI said, “We will be targeting all the government and private colleges in the given constituencies where we will spread awareness amongst students and distribute pamphlets of the unfulfilled promises of the Modi government. We recently concluded our ‘Behtar Bharat’ campaign in which we demanded a student council which will identify the economically weaker students and give them scholarships. We even demanded special reservation for youth in panchayat elections.”
NSUI currently has 3.5 lakh members in Rajasthan with 35 state secretaries. In the coming days they are planning to make committees in which university president who is from NUSI like Vinod Jakhad of Rajasthan University and Sunil Chaudhary of Jodhpur University will be made members who will be given task to mobilize the youth of their region which the party feels will have a larger impact.
More such awareness campaigns and rallies will be organised by NSUI and ABVP which will continue till the elections are conducted.
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