# Indian Youth Congress

The Indian Youth Congress 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 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 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 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.

## History

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 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.

## Role in India
### UTI Scam rally protest

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.

### Protest against violent attacks

In 2011, 2,500 Youth Congress activists rallied and protested in Calcutta against the violent attacks on its supporters by the All India Trinamool Congress party.

### Tripura civil disobedience movement

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 the state.

### Madhya Pradesh memorandum

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.

### Karnataka drought failure

In 2012, Youth Congress workers of Karnataka took out a procession in protest against 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.

### India-Pakistan border protest for Indian soldiers

On 14 January 2013 more than hundred Youth Congress activists staged protests across India against Pakistan and its army outside the old customs gate at the Attari border over the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani forces.

### Implementation of 73rd and 74th Amendments in Jammu and Kashmir

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.

### Kisaan Satyagrah against Land Acquisition Ordinance

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.

### Kerala Youth Congress Members Who Publicly Slaughtered A Calf

Days after Youth Congress members in Kerala publicly slaughtered a calf to protest against beef ban, Kerala Police on Thursday arrested eight people who were involved in the incident.

## List of previous presidents

| S.no | President | Term | Term | Place |
| 1 | N. D. Tiwari | 1969 | 1971 | Uttarakhand |
| 2 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 1971 | 1975 | West Bengal |
| 3 | Ambika Soni | 1975 | 1977 | Lahore, British India |
| 4 | Ramchandra Rath | 1978 | 1980 | Odisha |
| 5 | Ghulam Nabi Azad | 1980 | 1982 | Jammu and Kashmir |
| 6 | Tariq Anwar | 1982 | 1985 | Bihar |
| 7 | Anand Sharma | 1985 | 1987 | Himachal Pradesh |
| 8 | Gurudas Kamat | 1987 | 1988 | Karnataka |
| 9 | Mukul Wasnik | 1988 | 1990 | Maharashtra |
| 10 | Ramesh Chennithala | 1990 | 1993 | Kerala |
| 11 | Maninderjeet Singh Bitta | 1993 | 1996 | Punjab |
| 12 | Jitin Prasada | 1996 | 1998 | Uttar Pradesh |
| 13 | Manish Tewari | 1998 | 2000 | Punjab |
| 14 | Randeep Surjewala | March 2000 | February 2005 | Chandigarh |
| 15 | Ashok Tanwar | February 2005 | February 2010 | Haryana |
| 16 | Rajeev Satav | February 2010 | December 2014 | Maharashtra |
| 17 | Amrinder Singh Raja Warring | December 2014 | May 2018 | Punjab |
| 18 | Keshav Chand Yadav | May 2018 | July 2019 | Uttar Pradesh |
| 19 | Srinivas BV | August 2019 | 22 September 2024 | Karnataka |
| 20 | Uday Bhanu Chib | 22 September 2024 | Incumbent | Jammu and Kashmir |

## List of State Presidents

| S.no | State | President |
| 1 | Andhra Pradesh | Ramarao Lakkaraju |
| 2 | Arunachal Pradesh | Tarh Johnny |
| 3 | Assam | Zubair Anam |
| 4 | Bihar | Shiv Prakash Garib Das |
| 5 | Chhattisgarh | Akash Sharma |
| 6 | Goa | Joel Andred |
| 7 | Gujarat | Shri Harpalsinh Chudasama |
| 8 | Haryana | Divyanshu Buddhiraja |
| 9 | Himachal Pradesh | Chhater Singh |
| 10 | Jharkhand | Abhijit Raj |
| 11 | Karnataka | H. S. Manjunath |
| 12 | Kerala | Rahul Mamkootathil |
| 13 | Madhya Pradesh | Mitender Singh |
| 14 | Maharashtra | Shivraj More (Working President) |
| 15 | Manipur | Ningthoujam Popilal |
| 16 | Meghalaya | Adrian L Chyne Mylliem |
| 17 | Mizoram | Lalmalswama Nghaka |
| 18 | Nagaland | Lima lemtur |
| 19 | Odisha | Ranjit Patra |
| 20 | Punjab | Mohit Mohindra |
| 21 | Rajasthan | Abhimanyu Poonia |
| 22 | Sikkim | |
| 23 | Tamil Nadu | Lenin Prasad |
| 24 | Telangana | Shiva Sena Reddy |
| 25 | Tripura | Rakhi Das |
| 26 | Uttarakhand | Sumit Bhullar |
| 27 | Uttar Pradesh | Dipak shivhare W.Ankit Tiwari Vishal Singh Parash Sukla |
| 28 | West Bengal | Azahar Mollick |
| 29 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | Diksha Dular |
| 30 | Chandigarh | Deepak Lubana |
| 31 | Dadra Nagar Haveli | |
| 32 | Daman and Diu | |
| 33 | Delhi | Akshay Lakra |
| 34 | Jammu and Kashmir | Akash Bhart |
| 35 | Ladakh | Aamir Hussain lone |
| 36 | Lakshadweep | T. K. Shukoor |
| 37 | Mumbai | Akhilesh Yadav |
| 38 | Puducherry | Anandhbabu Natarajan |