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The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) (Hindi: भारतीय जनता युवा मोर्चा), translation: Indian Popular Youth Front) is the youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party. It is founded in 1978 and first national president was Kalraj Mishra.
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[edit]History
[edit]Organization
The BJP is one of the few parties in India to have a popular-based governing structure, where workers and leaders at the local level have a great say in much of the decision-making. This has also been blamed for public spats between different factions of the party. Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha which is Youth wing ofBJP has similar organizational structure like BJP.
The highest authority in the BJYM is the National President. Many BJP prominent leaders like Rajnath Singh, Pramod Mahajan, Shivraj Singh Chauhan etc. were National President of BJYM. Beyond this, there are several Vice-Presidents, General-Secretaries, Treasurers and Secretaries. The National Executive consists of an undetermined number of senior party leaders from across the nation who are the highest decision-making body in the party. At the state level, a similar structure is in place, with every state unit being led by the respective President, General Secretary, Incharge and Co-Incharge. State level Morcha mainly focuses on the local issues.
BJYM also maintains close relation with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which has millions of affiliates. It also maintains close links to other Sangh Parivar organizations, such as Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (an organization promoting consumption of domestic goods over foreign imports). Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad also works very closely with the Youth Morcha.
[edit]Ideology
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha belives in the all core ideologies of Bharatiya Janata Party. The concept of Integral Humanism has a special place in its ideology, with the party aiming to transform India in to a modern, progressive and enlightened nation which draws inspiration from India's ancient Indian culture and values. Being youth wing of Bharatiya Janata Party, it mainly focuses on the issue related to Indian youth.
Historically, the party has favored youth in opposing increase in unemployment and increase in corruption which makes difficult for talented youths to get employments opportunity. It also supports the reforms in education and emphasizes on the computer education.
[edit]Recent issue stances
[edit]Economic issues
- Bringing back Indian Black Money in Swiss banks - During 15th Lok Sabha election in 2009 party supported the issue raised by BJPPrime minister candidate Lal Krishna Advani for bringing back the Indian black money from Swiss banks.[1]
- Increasing prices of commodity - In recent year prices of the commodity increased a lot in India. Youth Morcha supports that the price of the essential commodities and services should be affordable by the poor people. It protested many times against the rise of prices.[2] It also advocates the health care cost should also be bring down to make it affordable to common mass.
[edit]Social issues
- Unemployment - Increasing Party has long term aim of having employment opportunity for all youth in all sections of society. It believes that government should take affirmative action for creation of more job opportunity for students. It demanded government to provide a definite action plan about how government is going to address the issue of increasing unemployment.[3]
- Health Care reforms - Youth morcha supports for providing the 24hour services in government hospitals for the treatment of patients. It also supports that the large number of vacancy of the doctors posts especially the gynecologist, orthopedics and surgeon, in government hospitals should be filled. These large number vacancy is causing the poor patients to approach private medical hospitals whose cost they are not able to afford. The party suggests patients should get the benefits of CT-scan and other laboratory facilities in government hospitals.[4]
[edit]Security
- Protection of Indian students in Australia - On 1st June, 2009 Youth Morcha held a protest against the recent alleged racist attacks on Indian students studying in Australia and demanding increased security for them. A six-member BJYM delegation also met the Australian High Commissioner, John McCarthy, and Deputy High Commissioner Sarah Hooper to express anguish and dismay over the repeated attacks.[5][6]
- Terrorism - Youth Mocha supports that government should not take soft approach against the terrorism. It advocates terrorism in Punjab was completely abolished by hard action of police chief of the state K.P.S. Gill, similarly government should take hard steps with zero tolerance policy to fight against terrorism in India. [7] It also supports that in house terrorism (Naxalites) which is currently present in most of the Indian states should also be taken seriously to prevent killing of innocent people. It demands government to put more pressure onPakistan for cracking down the terrorist groups in Pak occupied Kashmir and Talibani Militants.[8] During Mumbai attack by Pakistani terrorists on 26 November 2008, Youth Morcha demanded the resignation of the current Indian defiance minister A. K. Antony.[9] Morcha opposed UPA government for it's soft approach against terrorism evident by not hanging Afzal Guru, convicted for attacking Parliament.[10]
[edit]List of previous presidents
| Year | Name | Place | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 - 1980 |  | Kalraj Mishra | Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1980 - 1986 |  | Satya Dev Singh | Shrawasti, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1986 - 1988 |  | Pramod Mahajan | Mumbai, Maharashtra | |
| 1988 - 1990 |  | Rajnath Singh | Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh | |
| 1990 - 1994 |  | Jagat Prakash Nadda | ||
| 1994 - 2000 |  | Ramashish Rai | ||
| 2000 - 2002 |  | Shivraj Singh Chauhan | Sehore, Madhya Pradesh | |
| 2002 - 2005 |  | Kishan reddy | ||
| 2005 - 2007 |  | Dharmendra Pradhan | Angul, Orissa | |
| 2007 - Present | Amit Thaker | Ahmadabad, Gujarat | ||
[edit]State and territorial parties units
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Himachal Pradesh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Punjab Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Chandigarh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Kerala Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Tamil Nadu Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Karnataka Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Bangalore North Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Andhra Pradesh Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Gujarat Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Maharashtra Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Mumbai Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Goa Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Orissa Unit
- Official site of Bharatiya Janata Party, Jharkhand Unit
[edit]References
- ^ "BJP Yuva Morcha campaign". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2009-04-05.
- ^ "BJYM holds protest march against UPA govt". The Indian Express. Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
- ^ "BJYM demands special policy for youth". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2007-22-27.
- ^ "BJYM demands facilities for poor patients". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2008-09-05.
- ^ "BJYM protests attacks on Indian students in Australia". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2009-06-02.
- ^ "Indian students in Australia slam BJP protests". Theindian.com. Retrieved on 2009-06-02.
- ^ "Government soft on terror, says BJYM". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2008-10-26.
- ^ "BJYM demand". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2008-12-28.
- ^ "Antony should quit: BJP". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2008-12-03.
- ^ "BJP protests against UPA ‘failure’ to check terrorism". The Hindu. Retrieved on 2008-09-15.
[edit]External links
BJYM Candidate Websites
International BJP Support
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