The Samajwadi Party’s election campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will now be managed by the youth.
At a meeting of the office-bearers of the party’s frontal organisations on Wednesday, Samajwadi president Mulayam Singh Yadav asked the youth leaders to play a more pro-active role in the campaign and mobilise young voters.
The office bearers of the four frontal organisations of the SP — Samajwadi Yuvjan Sabha, Samajwadi Chhatra Sabha, Lohia Vahini and Mulayam Youth Brigade — will now be required to travel across all Vidhan Sabha segments and publicise the welfare schemes launched for the youth by the Akhilesh government. They will also be required to submit a constituency wise report to the party’s state headquarters and this will also include the image and impact of the party’s Lok Sabha candidate in each constituency.
“The campaign will rest on your shoulders and you have a huge responsibility this time. The Akhilesh government has done maximum for the youth and majority of his scheme have the youth as target beneficiaries. You should fan out in each constituency and start a dialogue with the youth and tell them that this government has done so much for them,” the SP president said.
He further said that while the government had designed and implemented the schemes for the youth, it was the duty of the youth in the party to carry the torch forward and inform the people about them.
Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav said that the government machinery could not be relied upon to publicise the achievements of the state government and he was relying on the youth in the party because they had an emotional connect with the government.
Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, who was also present at the meeting, detailed the various schemes that his government has implemented for the youth and said that the youth had benefited maximum under the Samajwadi government.