B.V. Srinivas is first Kannadiga to become IYC president
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B.V. Srinivas, who hails from a non-political household in Bhadravati of Shivamogga district, is the first Kannadiga to occupy the coveted put up of the president of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC), which has produced a number of nationwide leaders throughout the previous few a long time.
Interestingly, BJP’s incumbent youth wing president on the nationwide stage, Tejasvi Surya, is additionally from Karnataka.
Mr. Srinivas, 39, who was interim president of IYC for over a yr now, was appointed full-time president of the organisation by AICC interim president Sonia Gandhi. He is the 18th president of IYC. Mr. Srinivas represented the Karnataka under-16 staff. “The party has recognised my commitment and dedication to the work assigned to me and has given me a bigger responsibility now,” Mr. Srinivas advised The Puucho on Thursday.
Born in a center class household of the Balija group, Mr. Srinivas has neither cash energy nor any member of the family in politics. A pupil of National College, Basavanagudi, in Bengaluru, he started his political profession as a NSUI member throughout faculty days. Later, he grew to become a block Congress president of IYC, adopted by positions on the district stage and State stage of IYC.
He shifted to the nationwide capital when he was appointed as nationwide secretary and later common secretary of IYC. He was appointed vice-president in 2018 for a yr.
Being loyal to former Congress president and MP Rahul Gandhi, he was appointed the interim president of IYC in 2019 when Keshav Chand Yadav resigned from the put up of the president after the occasion’s poor present in 2019 common elections.
On his new duty, Mr. Srinivas stated: “Youth cannot be used only for raising slogans in political rallies. They have to be participants in decision-making process.”
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Mr. Srinivas launched a number of campaigns and protests specializing in unemployment, migrant disaster and arrange a facility to allow migrants to journey in Shramik trains to Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and different Northeastern States. It was beneath Mr. Srinivas’s management that the IYC organised “National Unemployment Day” on the birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 17.
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