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Youth was one of the trump cards of the Congress party which paid huge dividends in its unexpected victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls and also returning the Party to power with stronger mandate.
A year ago when Rahul Gandhi embarked on his mission to democratize the Youth Congress and National Students Union Of India (NSUI) with the idea of attracting youth to politics, hardly anyone believed that he would be successful.
But, after the recent turnaround in Congress political fortunes , the youth power has become flavour of the season . According to an estimate, India is going to become the biggest hub of the youth force . In 2009, 71.4 crores voters cast their votes as compared to 67.1 crores in 2004. The additional 4.3 crores new voters consisted mainly of youth.
Emboldened by the fact that youth force could play decisive role in future elections, Rahul Gandhi would begin youth drive in other states also. Uttar Pradesh is particularly important as Rahul Gandhi wants to put in place a youthful party cadre before the assembly polls in 2012 as the Congress hopes to take on Mayawati's BSP in a big way.
Youth factor of Rahul Gandhi worked nicely in the country with more than 200 millions electorates aged between 18 to 35. He proposed his idea in Congress meeting to give more tickets to young leaders in last election .
Its effect could be seen in the results having more victorious young MPs like RPN Singh, Jyoti Mirdha, Ravneet Singh Bittu ,Prateek Patil ,Sachin Piolt,Naveen Jindal,Jitin Prasad,Milind Deora ,Meenakshi Natrajan. Having missed ministerial berths in the Union council of ministers,young turks (mostly first time parliamentarian) in the Congress are hoping for meatier roles in the All India Congress Committee .
Rahul's laboratory is fully ready and youth experiment is in full swing , but it could be seen as fruitful only after the experiment culminates into come back of the Congress party with full majority based on youthful mandate.
