NGPL organises workshop on Communication and Personality Development at Chennai on 15th Feb 2020 for young leaders

Participants with leaders

NGPL brings together young and senior leaders of all parties in a single platform

Next Gen Political Leaders (NGPL), a registered NGO has organised a full day workshop on 15th Feb 2020 at Madras Management Association (MMA) building on 'Communication and Personality Development for Young leaders'. Young political leaders and political aspirants belonging to all parties participated. Even Senior leaders from all parties shared their experience. The uniqueness of this workshop was that all ideologically opposite leaders were very coordial respecting each others views.

NGPL is the fifth initiative of monthly eMagazine PreSense, published by Prime Point Foundation.

Smt. G Priyadarshini (National President of NGPL) and Sri Sridhar Raj (Executive President of Tamil nadu Chapter) welcomed and shared the roadmap of NGPL.

In the first session, Shri M Selvaraj, CPI MP from Nagapattinam and Dr Jayakumar, Congress MP from Thiruvallur shared the functions of Parliament. This session was moderated by Prime Point Srinivasan.

In the second session, Prime Point Srinivasan made a presentation on "How to build brand image for political leaders".

In the third session, Shri V Rajendran (Chairman, Digital Security Association of India) and Shri Pradhan (Ethical hacker) made presentations of the cyber security aspects.

There was an Elocution competion among the participants, managed well by Smt. Nandini Alagar of Congress Party. 6 participants made presentation on 'the expectations from youth in the politics'. The topper Shri Rajesh was given a prize.

In the fifth session, Sri Ravindran Doraiswamy and Smt Bhanu Gomes (both political analysts) shared their views on the communication and the speaking skills required for young leaders. Sri Nurullah, Senior Journalist moderated this session.

In the last and final session, Sri D Kuppuramu (Senior Vice President of BJP, Tamil Nadu) and Dr VPB Paramasivam AIADMK MLA from Vedasanthur shared their views and advices to grow in political career. This session was moderated by Smt. G Priyadarshni, National President of NGPL.

Sri Hemanth Annadurai from DMK proposed vote of thanks.

Around 70 young leaders from different parties participated. Interestingly, Sri D Kuppuramu, Senior Vice President of BJP attended the full programme from 9.30 am till the end taking notes like any other young participant.

"Though, I have nearly 40 years of political experience, I learn daily from everybody. This workshop has given me an opportunity to meet various young and senior leaders of all parties and learn from them. I continue to be a student of politics" said Shri Kuppuramu in a humble tone.

Read More

NGPL workshop on 'Electoral Reforms'

Next Gen Political Leaders (NGPL), one of the initiatives of your eMagazinePreSense and an offshoot of the Sansad Ratna Awards organised the third workshop at Chennai on Sunday, 19^th May 2019.  NGPL was formed to educate prospective next gen political leaders on the various aspects of parliamentary and democratic procedures and to develop their leadership skills. Fifty young participants from across all political parties coming from various parts of Tamil Nadu State, participated.

In the first session, Shri R Bhagwan Singh (Executive Editor, Deccan Chronicle) and Shri Ravindran Duraiswamy (Political analyst) shared their views about political communication. During the second session, Shri S K Kharvendhan (Former Member of Parliament and Patron of NGPL) and Shri Srinivasa Prabhu (Joint Secretary of Lok Sabha Secretariat) interacted with the participants on the development of leadership skills and knowledge about democracy.  The new logo for NGPL was launched by Shri S K Kharvendhan. In the third session, Dr M Rajendran IAS (Election Commissioner for TN State Cooperative Societies) briefed about the elections in the cooperative system.In the fourth session, contestants for the Member of Parliament seats, Shri DhehlanBaqavi (Central Chennai) and Shri A GMourya (North Chennai) shared their on-field experience.  Shri T K Rangarajan, Rajya Sabha MP chaired the session.  The panellists demanded that electoral reforms should provide for more powers to the Election Commission.

Hon’ble Justice Shri S K Krishnan (Retd Judge of Madras High Court) presented the participation certifications.

Shri Sridhar Raj, President of NGPL announced that similar workshops would be held in other centres too.  SmtPriyadharshini and Shri M R Elangovan, Secretaries were working on conducting similar workshops at Delhi and Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu), he said.

Source : May 2019 issue of PreSense

Read More

NGPL Launched at Chennai with a workshop on 'Emerging challenges and opportunities'

Next Gen political leaders with Shri T K Rangarajan MP (Rajya Sabha) and

Dr Anbumani Ramadoss MP (Lok Sabha)

A unique workshop titled “Next Gen Political Leaders: Emerging Challenges and Opportunities” was organised by your eMagazine PreSense, and the Sansad Ratna Awards Committee on 20^th October 2018 at the Madras Management Association premises, Chennai.  The workshop was supported by Prime Point Foundation and Digital Journalists’ Association of India (DiJAI).  Forty young political leaders from various political parties of different ideologies participated in the full-day workshop.  The Sansad Ratna Awards and DiJAI are initiatives of PreSense.

The following were the speakers with their respective topics at the Workshop:

Speaker	Topic
Dr. Sudarshan Padmanabhan, Associate Professor, IIT Madras	An Overview of Emerging Political Situation Globally and the Opportunities for Youth.
Shri Srinivasa Prabhu, Senior Official of the Lok Sabha Secretariat	The Indian Constitution and Parliamentary Procedures.
Shri Sathyamoorthy, IA&AS (Retired), Former Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General of India and Chairman, Audit Board	Constitutional and Social Accountability.
Shri Naresh Gupta IAS (Retired), Former Chief Electoral Officer, Tamil Nadu	Electoral System in India.
Dr S Ayyar IAS (Retired), Local Bodies Ombudsman Tamil Nadu, and Former State Election Commissioner	The Role of Local Bodies in Democracy and the Guidelines.
Shri Seshu Karthik, Digital Media and Technology Expert	Use of Social Media in Electoral Politics
Shri T K Rangarajan, Member of Parliament (MP), Rajya Sabha and          Dr Anbumani Ramadoss, MP, Lok Sabha	An Interactive Session
Group Captain Vijayakumar, Executive Director, Madras Management Association	Valedictory Address

The participants made use of this unique opportunity to gain knowledge.  Shri T K Rangarajan MP and Dr Anbumani Ramadoss MP presented the participation certificates to the delegate participants. 

The Sansad Ratna Team which organised the workshop, was headed by Bhawanesh Kumar Deora, Ramesh Sethuraman, Ravi Senthil Kumar and Rajaji.  Sridhar Raj of Tamil Manila Congress (TMC) coordinated the workshop. 

The Sansad Ratna Team plans to conduct similar workshops to train next generation leaders.

Read More