Mangalore, January 21: As many as 200 Youth Congress workers here on Saturday registered their names to donate their eyes after their death to Udupi based Prasad Netralaya.
Veteran Congress leader and former Union minister B Janardhan Poojary formally handed over the filled registration forms of eye donation to Prasad Netralaya chairman Krishna Prasad at the Youth Congress Convention organized at Town Hall.
Mr Poojary also encouraged the congress workers to set an example before the society.
State ignoring youth
Speaking at the Convention State Youth Congress president Rizwan Arshad said that the BJP led Karnataka Government has completely ignored the youth of the state. “The BJP leaders have forgotten their poll-time pledge of Rs 15,00 unemployment allowance for unemployed youth” he said.
He said that the State government even failed to effectively implement various schemes of Union government.
Mr Arshad went on to ridicule the recent proposal of Youth Budget by Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda saying that it would be as useless as the 'agriculture budget' of former CM B S Yeddyurappa.
Misusing Youth Power
Mr Arshan accused the Sangh Parivar of misusing the youth power and leading youth towards communalism. The recent incident of the hoisting of Pakistani national flag at Tahsildar's office in Sindagi by Hindutva activists is a small example for the disastrous tricks of communal forces, he said.
Gandhinagar MLA Dinesh Gundu Rao said that the biggest achievement of the first ever BJP government of South India, to create most corrupt chief minister in the history of the state. “The first BJP CM of the state has created history by becoming the first CM to be imprisoned”, he said.
Dakshina Kannada district Congress Committee president B Ramanath Rai, Mangalore MLA U T Khader and other Congress leaders Vijayakumar Shetty, Priyanka Kharge, Bondala Jagannath Shetty, Mamatha Gatty were also present among others.
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