As Rahul sits down to pick Youth Congress chief, contenders face questions on Ram Temple, caste census
New Delhi: Topics ranging from the decision of the Congress to skip the Ram Temple consecration ceremony to the party’s demand for a nation-wide caste census—which bore Rahul Gandhi’s imprint—came up for discussions as he interviewed the candidates for the next president of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC).
From the Congress’s Surguja Lok Sabha candidate Shashi Singh to Haryana Youth Congress chief Divyanshu Budhiraja, Rajasthan MLA Abhimanyu Poonia to Bihar Youth Congress chief Shiv Prakash Garib Das, Rahul interviewed 31 candidates this week in two batches.
As they walked in for the interviews Monday and Tuesday, the candidates found the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha waiting with their individual profiles, in which their personal and organisational journeys were meticulously m...