CONGRESS SANDESH COMPLETES ITS SEVEN YEAR

States WatchMUMBAI: The Mumbai Pradesh Youth Congress celebrated the36 th birthday of Shri Rahul Gandhi, MP, here on 19 th June. Onthis occasion free note-book to around 4,000 school children ofMunicipal schools were distributed. Such note books distributionprogramme will continue for about a month so that around 50,000students benefit from it.The function was attended by local MP, Shri Eknath Gaikwad,Shri Jagannath Shetty (MLA), Minister of State for Tourism, ShriSuresh Shetty and Shri P.U. Mehta, MLA.SRIRANGAM (TRICHY): The 36 th birthday of Shri Rahul Gandhi,MP, was celebrated by the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee in aunique way. Special poo␣ arranged by Shri Balasubramanian,general council member (PCC member), Tamil Nadu CongressCommittee.Shri S.K. Karvendan, MP from Palani, also arranged special poojasat Sri Palani Andavar temple and also at the Madurai temple.VARANASI: The Mahanagar Sonia Gandhi Brigade celebrated thebirthday of Shri Rahul Gandhi, MP, here on 19 June by organizing afunction at the Care and Career School premises. Brigade president,Shri Pramod Verma, who presided over the function, distributed cakeand sweets among the people present at the function.Senior party leaders including Shri Manishanker Pandye, ShriNew PCC PresidentsNew Delhi: Following names have been cleared by theCongress President for the Presidentship of theirrespective Pradesh Congress Committees as perresolutions passed by the PCC delegates, according to ShriJanardan Dwivedi, general secretary, AICC, upto 13 July:Arunachal Pradesh - Shri Mukut Mithi; Jammu &Kashmir - Sh. Peerzada Mohd. Sayeed; Maharashtra -Smt. Prabha Rau; Rajasthan - Shri B.D. Kalla; UttarPradesh - Shri Salman Khurshid; Andhra Pradesh - ShriKeshav Rao; Assam - Shri Bhubaneshwar Kalita; Goa -Shri Ravi Naik; Meghalaya - Shri O.L. Nongtudu;Mizoram - Shri Lalthanwala; Nagaland - Shri HoketoSumi; Orissa - Shri Jayadev Jena; Sikkim - Shri NarBahadur Bhandari; Andaman & Nicobar - Shri KuldeepSharma; Daman & Diu - Shri Ketan Patel; Lakshadweep- Sh. Moosa Manikfar Kallikagothi; Mumbai RegionalCongress Committee - Shri Gurudas Kamat; Bihar - ShriSadanand Singh; Delhi - Shri Ram Babu Sharma; MadhyaPradesh - Shri Subhash Yadav; Jharkhand - Shri PradeepBalmuchu; Karnataka - Shri Mallikarjun Kharge; Punjab- Shri Shamsher Singh Dullo; Tripura - Shri Samir RanjanBurman and Dadar & Nagar Haveli - Shri Vikram SinghParmar. ␣ ❖Remembering Abbas TayyabjiS.M. Sultan, Shri Haren Pandye, Shri Ganga Sahay Pandye, Smt.Krishna Singh, Veena Pandye Indira Gupta, Shri Sarfaraz Ahmed,Shri Anand Kishore Mishra, Shri Mukand Yadav, Shri AmitBhattacharya, Shri Rajkumar Verma, Shri Rajkumar Singh, ShriChangur Lal, Shri Dinesh Singh, Shri Kushwha Manoj Gupta, ShriDharmendra Gupta and Shri Sanjay Shah Laddu. The programmewas convened by Shri Harendra Pandye and Shri Shakeel Ahmadgave vote of thanks. ❖NEW DELHI: The FreedomMovement Memorial Committee ata meeting held on 12 June, 2005at Secular House here decided toobserve 150 th birth anniversary ofShri Abbas Tayyabji in the year2005. Shri Shashi Bhushan, ex-MP, a veteran freedom fighter,presided over the meeting.Tayyabji was a veteran freedom fighter who was arrested inCivil Disobedience Movement in 1932. After his release fromjail, he presided over the Eleventh Session of Praja Mandalat Amroli. He presided over the Baroda session of PrajaMandal in 1936. It was also pointed out that he had thedistinction of being nominated Acting President of IndianNational Congress after the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi indefiance of Salt Act on May 4, 1930. ❖July, 2005Congress Sandesh21