- Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
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Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha
President Anurag Singh Thakur Vice President Rajiv Babbar Chairperson Gaurav Rajput Founded 1978 Headquarters New Delhi Mother party Bharatiya Janata Party Website http://bjym.org The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) (Hindi: भारतीय जनता युवा मोर्चा), translation: Indian Popular Youth Front) is the youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It is founded in 1978 and first national president was Kalraj Mishra.
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Organization
The BJP is one of the few parties in India to have a popular-based governing structure, where workers and leaders at the local level have a great say in much of the decision-making. This has also been blamed for public spats between different factions of the party. Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha which is Youth wing of BJP has similar organizational structure like BJP.
The highest authority in the BJYM is the National President. Many BJP prominent leaders like Rajnath Singh, Pramod Mahajan, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, etc., were National President of BJYM. Beyond this, there are several Vice-Presidents like Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, General-Secretaries, Treasurers and Secretaries. The National Executive consists of an undetermined number of senior party leaders from across the nation who are the highest decision-making body in the party. At the state level, a similar structure is in place, with every state unit being led by the respective President, General Secretary, Incharge and Co-Incharge. State level Morcha mainly focuses on the local issues.
BJYM also maintains close relation with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which has millions of affiliates. It also maintains close links to other Sangh Parivar organizations, such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (an organization promoting consumption of domestic goods over foreign imports). Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad also works very closely with the Yuva Morcha.
Ideology
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha believes in the all core ideologies of the BJP. The concept of Integral Humanism has a special place in its ideology, with the party aiming to transform India in to a modern, progressive and enlightened nation which draws inspiration from India's ancient Indian culture and values. Being the youth wing of the BJP, it mainly focuses on the issue related to Indian youth.
Historically, the party has favored youth in opposing increase in unemployment and increase in corruption which makes difficult for talented youths to get employments opportunity. It also supports the reforms in education and emphasizes on the computer education.
Recent issue stances
Illegal map of India on Wikipedia
Main article: India map dispute between Wikipedia and the BJPAmit Satam, the youth president of the organization in Mumbai and a small group protested outside of the Fort campus of Mumbai University during a conference related to Wikipedia.[1]
Economic issues
- Bringing back Indian Black Money in Swiss banks - During 15th Lok Sabha election in 2009 party supported the issue raised by BJP Prime minister candidate Lal Krishna Advani for bringing back the Indian black money from Swiss banks.[2]
- Increasing prices of commodity - In recent year prices of the commodity increased a lot in India. Youth Morcha supports that the price of the essential commodities and services should be affordable by the poor people. It protested many times against the rise of prices.[3] It also advocates the health care cost should also be bring down to make it affordable to common mass.
Social issues
- Unemployment - Increasing Party has long term aim of having employment opportunity for all youth in all sections of society. It believes that government should take affirmative action for creation of more job opportunity for students. It demanded government to provide a definite action plan about how government is going to address the issue of increasing unemployment.[4]
- Health Care reforms - Youth morcha supports for providing the 24hour services in government hospitals for the treatment of patients. It also supports that the large number of vacancy of the doctors posts especially the gynecologist, orthopedics and surgeon, in government hospitals should be filled. These large number vacancy is causing the poor patients to approach private medical hospitals whose cost they are not able to afford. The party suggests patients should get the benefits of CT-scan and other laboratory facilities in government hospitals.[5]
Security
- Protection of Indian students in Australia - On 1 June 2009 Youth Morcha held a protest against the recent alleged racist attacks on Indian students studying in Australia and demanding increased security for them. A six-member BJYM delegation also met the Australian High Commissioner, John McCarthy, and Deputy High Commissioner Sarah Hooper to express anguish and dismay over the repeated attacks.[6][7]
- Terrorism - Youth Mocha supports that government should not take soft approach against the terrorism. It advocates terrorism in Punjab was completely abolished by hard action of police chief of the state K.P.S. Gill, similarly government should take hard steps with zero tolerance policy to fight against terrorism in India.[8] It also supports that in house terrorism (Naxalites) which is currently present in most of the Indian states should also be taken seriously to prevent killing of innocent people. It demands government to put more pressure on Pakistan for cracking down the terrorist groups in Pak occupied Kashmir and Talibani Militants.[9] During Mumbai attack by Pakistani terrorists on 26 November 2008, Youth Morcha demanded the resignation of the current Indian defiance minister A. K. Antony.[10] Morcha opposed UPA government for its soft approach against terrorism evident by not hanging Afzal Guru, convicted for attacking Parliament.[11]
National leadership
Following is the list of national leadership of BJYM:[12]
- National President
- National Vice President
- Rajiv Babbar (New Delhi)
- J P S Rathore (Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh)
- Vivek Thakur (Patna, Bihar)
- Nahar Singh (Pali, Rajasthan)
- Ashok Sharma (Nalbari, Assam)
- National General Secretary
- National Secretary
- Jai Kumar Rawal, MLA (Dhule, Maharastra)
- Sunil Kumar, MLA (Udupi, Karnataka)
- Vani Tripathi (Versova, Mumbai)
- Shivraj Shah, MLA (Mandla, Madhya Pradesh)
- Dr. Kasam (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh)
- National Treasurer
- National Office Incharge
- Subhash Yaduvans (New Delhi)
- National Office Secretary
- Sandeep Thakur (New Delhi)
- National Joint Secretary
- Khushal Jaggarwal (New Delhi)
State leadership
Following is the list of state President, state General Secretary and state In Charge:[13][14]
State State President State General Secretary-nitin naveen State In charge Andaman Nicobar Mohd. Raffi K. Paramshivam K.T. Raghawan Andhra Pradesh Dr.kasam venkateshwarlu P.V.N. Narender Rao Mahesh Tagnakai, Jatin Mohanti Arunachal Pradesh Dooni Neech Ashok Sharma Assam Dilip Sekia Nitin Naveen Bihar Pradeep Dubey Rajesh Verma Sanjeev Chourasia Chandigarh Gurprit Singh Dhillon Maheshinder Singh Sidhu Jaswanth Bablu Chhattisgarh Sanjay Shrivastav Kishor Rai Shivraj Shah, Yashwanth Jain Dadra and Nagar Haveli Prayank Parmar Santurbhai Pawar Vani Tripathi Daman Diu Naveen Bhai Raman Bhai Patel Santubhai Pawar Vani Tripathi Delhi Nakul Bhardwaj Sunil Yadav Mithilesh Tiwari Gujarat pradipsinh vaghela Rupesh Mahatme Tushar Patel gujarat Haryana Mahipal Dhanda Pavitra Singh Asim Goyal Himachal Pradesh Rakesh Jambwal Hemanshu Mishra Vivek Thakur, Manoj Pathak Jammu & Kashmir Pawan Khajuria Sajay Wadu Rajesh Hanny Jharkhand Anant Ojha Samir Urao J P S Rathore Karnataka Girish Mattanar P.U. Rabon Devaiah Jaikumar Rawal, Damu Nayak Kerala K. Surendran V.K. Sanjeevan Dr. Kasam Lakshadweep N. Mohammad Swami Gour Madhya Pradesh Jitu Jirati Rajnish Agarwal, Ram Kishore Kawre R.P. Singh, Ajay Singh Bhadoria Manipur L. Surjeet Singh Vasant Singh Jayant Das Maharastra Dhananjay Mundey Poonam Mahajan Rao Nahar Singh, Bintu Ghoghari Meghalaya Besin Lemin Kunjeet Drai Mumbai Mihir Kotechar Vinod Mishra Rajiv Babbar, Bintu Ghoghari Mizoram Lima Chang Nagaland Jemas Vizo L.Basant Sharma Orissa Bibhuti Bhushan Janna Bibhudatta Mohapatra Ritesh Tiwari, Bhupendra Arya Puducherry N. Balu Khandhawalu Raghuram Punjab Vivek Moudgil Rajendra Bitta Anurag Thakur, Munish Sharma Rajasthan Ashok Lahoti Hemant Lambha Pravesh Verma, Jaiveer Rana Sikkim Ajeet Das Tamilnadu Gopa Kumar S.M. Vishwanathan Raghuram, V.B. Rajesh Tripura Tapas Majumdar Shyamlendu Bikas Poul Ashok Sharma Uttar Pradesh Dayashankar Singh Rajesh Choudhary Uttarakhand vinod kandari Kuldeep Singh West Bengal Koshik Moitra Sayantan Basu Akshay Lahoti List of previous presidents
Year Name Place Rationale 1978–1980 Kalraj Mishra Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh 1980–1986 Satya Dev Singh Shrawasti, Uttar Pradesh 1986–1988 Pramod Mahajan Mumbai, Maharashtra 1988–1990 Rajnath Singh Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 1990–1994 Jagat Prakash Nadda 1994–2000 Ramashish Rai Deoria, Uttar Pradesh 2000–2002 Shivraj Singh Chauhan Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh 2002–2005 Kishan Reddy 2005–2007 Dharmendra Pradhan Angul, Orissa 2007–2010 Amit Thaker Ahmedabad, Gujarat 2010-2011 Anurag Thakur Hamirpur State and territorial parties units
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Punjab Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Chandigarh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Kerala Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tamil Nadu Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bangalore North Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Mumbai Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Goa Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Orissa Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Jharkhand Unit
References
- ^ . BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15803308.
- ^ "BJP Yuva Morcha campaign". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2009-04-05. http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/05/stories/2009040554411000.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-05.
- ^ "BJYM holds protest march against UPA govt". The Indian Express. http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/bjym-holds-protest-march-against-upa-govt/310444/. Retrieved 2008-05-16.
- ^ "BJYM demands special policy for youth". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2007-11-29. http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/29/stories/2007112952500300.htm. Retrieved 2007-22-27.
- ^ "BJYM demands facilities for poor patients". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2008-09-05. http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/05/stories/2008090555190300.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-05.
- ^ "BJYM protests attacks on Indian students in Australia". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2009-06-02. http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/02/stories/2009060257330400.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
- ^ "Indian students in Australia slam BJP protests". Theindian.com. http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/indian-students-in-australia-slam-bjp-protests_100199882.html. Retrieved 2009-06-02.
- ^ "Government soft on terror, says BJYM". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2008-10-26. http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/26/stories/2008102651220300.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
- ^ "BJYM demand". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2008-12-28. http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/28/stories/2008122851370300.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-28.
- ^ "Antony should quit: BJP". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2008-12-03. http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/03/stories/2008120351690300.htm. Retrieved 2008-12-03.
- ^ "BJP protests against UPA ‘failure’ to check terrorism". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2008-09-15. http://www.hindu.com/2008/09/15/stories/2008091558350300.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
- ^ BJYM National leadership
- ^ BJYM State President and General Secretary
- ^ BJYM State Incharge and Co Incharge
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