Rahul Gandhi has been traveling around the country asking students and the young people to join politics. He has been holding elections in the Youth Congress and the National Students Union of India in sharp contrast to the parent Congress where Sonia Gandhi's managers have continued to sing the consensus mantra and where the nomination culture has come to dominate, from the block to the All India Congress Committee level.
But the democrat in Rahul Gandhi is visible only as long as it suits him. A case in point is of Chattisgarh where the youth congress is yet to hold the elections and where the election drive is going on.
Sources disclose that Amit Jogi, the son of the former state chief minister Ajit Jogi has been active in the membership drive from the state. So much so that Jogi junior, known to be a somewhat controversial figure in the state has managed to make around 4 lakh members, a huge number surpassing even Rahul Gandhi's expectations. Having worked hard, Amit Jogi on the basis of his membership drive has decided to contest the youth congress president's election in Chattisgarh, a trend approved and encouraged by Rahul Gandhi.
At the mention of Amit Jogi's name, Rahul's New Delhi office panicked and AICC secretary Jitender Singh, a close aide of Rahul's is reported to have made innumerable calls to Amit Jogi asking him not to contest. But so far Jogi junior