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Where are Youth Congress office bearers?

If the Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi is known for his absence from the Lok Sabha, the Youth Congress national office bearers are following suit. Rahul Gandhi, who is also in charge of the Youth Congress wing of the party, attended the recently-concluded budget session for thirteen days while he was absent for twenty two days. The same is the case with national office bearers. 

The Youth Congress office which had been buzzing before the assembly elections in the five states now wears a deserted look with national general secretaries and secretaries of the youth congress missing from their offices. A national general secretary of the Youth Congress accepts the fact that he hasn't visited the Delhi office in the last two weeks as he is now focussing on his home state. 'We need to prepare the ground for in our home states, if we wish to contest elections and remain in active politics,' says a general secretary, who is also an in-charge of a state where the Congress party fared poorly in the assembly elections. 

A cursory glance at the attendance register in the Youth Congress office paints a dismal picture. Out of the twenty seven national office bearers, on an average not more than two to three office bearers are present daily. 'It is nice that our office bearers are working in the field rather than sitting in the office idle the whole day,' says Rajeev Satav, Youth Congress president, while defending the absence of the office bearers. 

The local Youth Congress cadre says with no instructions coming from the national leadership there isn't any work at the local level. 'Since the Uttar Pradesh elections, we have undergone one internal training. Apart from that at the ground level no work is happening,' says Abdullah, Lok Sabha President, Muzzafarnagar. 
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