People's Democracy

       All-India Youth Rally In Delhi On November 3

 B Prasant

A MASSIVE rally of the youth of the country shall be organised in Delhi on November 3 by the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) based on the following demands:

• Right to work

• Filling up of all job vacancies

• National youth policy and

• National sports policy

 This was stated by the all-India general secretary of the DYFI, Tapas Sinha, and all-India president K N Balagopal in Kolkata at the state office of the DYFI on August 20. This was decided in the meeting of the central executive committee of the DYFI held recently in Kolkata. The two youth leaders believed that the rally would be a massive assemblage of the youth of the country.

Tapas Sinha said that the policy of the union government over the past ten years had given rise to a massive unemployment problem. More than three lakh posts have been abolished. There has been no progress chalked up in the arena of sports. The disastrous national scenario urged upon the people to remove the NDA régime. 

The UPA government, said the youth leaders, must fill up existing job vacancies by keeping in mind the problem of the youth in the country. Railway is one sector that can play a crucial part in reorienting the employment policy. The DYFI will go in for mass collection of at least two crore of signatures across the country on the issues of national youth and sports policies, and thoroughgoing land reforms. With the signatures collected, the DYFI shall move in a deputation to the prime minister. 

The youth leadership said that in view of the 25 years of the DYFI on November 3, a one-year-long programme countrywide will be held to commemorate the occasion.  At the moment the membership of the DYFI stands at more than 1.35 crore.  The 25th year shall be commemorated as the year of struggle, self-sacrifice, and progress.  A target has been set for the collection of five lakh units of blood. All-India demands of the DYFI include also a demand not to privatise profit-bearing PSUs, and the ensuring of the right to work and education for all.

The media conference that the all-India leadership of the DYFI addressed also included state leaders of the DYFI like Ashitanga Ganguly (secretary), and Abdul Hai (president). (INN)