Indian Youth Congress

Indian Youth Congress (IYC)
Logo of the IYC
President	Uday Bhanu Chib
Chairperson	Rahul Gandhi
Founded	9 August 1960 (64 years ago) (9 August 1960)
Headquarters	5, Raisina Hill, New Delhi, Delhi, India
Membership	50 million
International affiliation	Progressive Alliance, Socialist International
Website	iyc.in

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The Indian Youth Congress is the youth wing of the Indian National Congress party. The Indian Youth Congress was a department of the Indian National Congress from the period just after the Partition of India in 1947 until the late 1960s. While prime minister, Indira Gandhi gave the Youth Congress a new dimension by establishing it as a frontal organisation of the Congress Party, with the objective of doing social work. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi was the first president of the Indian Youth Congress who later became Minister of Broadcasting and Parliamentary affairs in the Indian cabinet; Narayan Dutt Tiwari was the first President. Jitin Prasada was also the president of the Indian youth congress.

During the 1970s, under the leadership of Sanjay Gandhi, the Youth Congress undertook activities such as tree plantation, family planning, and fought against domestic violence and dowry deaths. After the death of Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi took over in charge of the Youth Congress. After he became prime minister in 1984, Rajiv Gandhi reduced the voting age to 18. Rahul Gandhi was appointed a general secretary of the All India Congress Committee on 24 September 2007 and was given charge of the Indian Youth Congress^[1] along with the National Students Union of India.^[2]

The Indian Youth Congress has its headquarters in New Delhi and is headed by Uday Bhanu Chib. There are 39 office bearers at the national level, followed by the state, Loksabha, Assembly and Booth level. In all, 174,000 committees have been formed at the Booth level.^[3]

In the early seventies, the Youth Congress was mostly the work of Saiyid Nurul Hasan, who served as the education minister from 1972 to 1977. The organisation's most effective unit was the West Bengal Youth Congress, where its first elected president, Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, who transformed the unit into a fulltime cadre, made it a body not to be ignored.^[4]

During the Emergency, the organisation became an important body in the use of Sanjay Gandhi. The banning of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh helped with adding members from the banned organisation.^[4]

In 2001, several Youth Congress workers held Lalkar Rally around Parliament of India to protest against UTI Scam under National Democratic Alliance government and asked for resignation of then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.^[5][6][7]

In 2011, 2,500 Youth Congress activists rallied and protested in Calcutta against the violent attacks on its supporters by the All India Trinamool Congress party.^[8][9]

In 2012, Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress organized civil disobedience movement in all 23 sub-divisions in Tripura as part of agitation to protest against the Left Front government's failure to provide employment, nepotism, rise of crime and atrocities against women in the state. This saw procession of 4,000 Congress workers and detainment about 25,000 Youth Congress activists across the state.^[10]

Kunal Choudhary is the President of Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress.^[11] In 2012, Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress president submitted a memorandum to the Governor of Madhya Pradesh demanding dismissal of the State Government run by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not able to protect teenager girls and murders.^[12]

In 2012, Youth Congress workers of Karnataka took out a procession in protest against the failure of the Government of Karnataka under BJP to tackle drought in 123 taluks and staged a mass protest in front of all taluk offices and locked the offices.^[13] A memorandum was submitted to Deputy Commissioner.^[14]

In January 2013, a 17 kilometer rally was held in Kannur demanding the dissolution of BJP government for 'failing' to provide good administration and losing the support of the majority.^[15][16][17]

On 14 January 2013 more than hundred Youth Congress activists staged protests across India against Pakistan and its army outside the old customs gate at the Attari border over the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani forces.^[18][19]

In August, 2012 the Pradesh Youth Congress Jammu and Kashmir launched a statewide protest against the Government led by National Conference for the implementation of the 73rd and 74th Amendments to the Constitution of India relating to Panchayti Raj in Jammu and Kashmir. The protests were led by J&K youth Congress president Mohammad Shahnawaz Choudhary.^[20]

In January 2015, Indian National Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi directed nationwide protest against Land Acquisition Ordinance brought in by Indian Central government.^[21] The protest took place in various part of country.^[22][23] On 18 February, Indian Youth Congress protested against Vyapam Scam and Land Acquisition Ordinance near Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha where they were charged with water canon in which several youth congress volunteers were hurt and arrested along with Indian Youth Congress National President Amrinder Singh Raja Warring.^[24]

Days after Youth Congress members in Kerala publicly slaughtered a calf ^[25] to protest against beef ban, Kerala Police on Thursday arrested eight people who were involved in the incident.

S.no	President	Portrait	Term		Place
1	N. D. Tiwari		1969	1971	Uttarakhand
2	Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi		1971	1975	West Bengal
3	Ambika Soni		1975	1977	Lahore, British India
4	Ramchandra Rath		1978	1980	Odisha
5	Ghulam Nabi Azad		1980	1982	Jammu and Kashmir
6	Tariq Anwar		1982	1985	Bihar
7	Anand Sharma		1985	1987	Himachal Pradesh
8	Gurudas Kamat		1987	1988	Karnataka
9	Mukul Wasnik		1988	1990	Maharashtra
10	Ramesh Chennithala		1990	1993	Kerala
11	Maninderjeet Singh Bitta		1993	1996	Punjab
12	Jitin Prasada		1996	1998	Uttar Pradesh
13	Manish Tewari		1998	2000	Punjab
14	Randeep Surjewala		March 2000	February 2005	Chandigarh
15	Ashok Tanwar		February 2005	February 2010	Haryana
16	Rajeev Satav		February 2010	December 2014	Maharashtra
17	Amrinder Singh Raja Warring		December 2014	May 2018	Punjab
18	Keshav Chand Yadav		May 2018	July 2019	Uttar Pradesh
19	Srinivas BV		August 2019	22 September 2024	Karnataka
20	Uday Bhanu Chib		22 September 2024	Incumbent	Jammu and Kashmir

• Indian National Congress
• National Students Union of India

• Militants target rally organised by the Youth Congress in Srinagar. at Wikinews
• Official website