After tasting success in Uttar Pradesh, the poll-bound Bihar is going to be a litmus test for Mr Rahul Gandhi, who is actively involved in the party affairs in the state.
The General Secretary in-charge of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and NSUI started his forays in Bihar earlier this year with a series of meetings to prepare the ground for the organisational elections in the Indian Youth Congress.
Earlier this month, he again held meetings in the state and raised a number of issues and focussed on development to mobilise the youth, farmers and other sections of the society.
Organisational elections for IYC have been successfully completed in the state and a cadre of youth Congress is there in every panchayat of the state where Congress has politically been on the sidelines for the last 20 years.
In every panchayat, the lowest unit of elections, there are two elected representatives of the IYC.
Similarly, at the level of Assembly segment and Lok Sabha segment, there are two representatives each who are the torch-bearers of the party in the state where the organisation has suffered over the years as the party has been out of power for two decades at a stretch after the Mandal politics.
At the state level too, there are a set of office-bearers who are working to improve the graph of the party.
Party sources said several of these IYC elected members would be given party nomination, even if they are not in a position to win, so that they gain experience in electoral politics in the long run.
In the last Lok Sabha election, Gandhi had actively lobbied for party nomination for the youth so that they get valuable experience. Several of them won bringing in a new dynamism in the party affairs.