Two of the 11 resolutions proposed by Gerakan Youth were not passed by the delegations at the Gerakan National Youth Delegates Conference 2011 today.

One was to change the name of Gerakan Youth to Belia Gerakan to attract female youths to take part in programmes organised by the party's youth wing.

The other was to reduce the age limit of Gerakan Youth to 40 from 45, to enable youth leaders to be trained and made more prominent in the party.

Gerakan youth conference Gerakan Nasional Youth chief Lim Si Pin, when contacted after the conference, said the two resolutions were rejected because the delegates regarded that they were not suitable for implementation at the moment.

He said the changing of Gerakan Youth to Belia Gerakan was still not suitable for implementation because there were not much dialogues between Gerakan Youth members and the Gerakan Beliawanis Bureau on the proposal.

"We need to have many more dialogues between the two to carry out the name change and subsequently merging them.

On the resolution on the age limit, Lim said: "The delegates regarded the age 40 as 'still raw' as they are just starting to learn about politics. The five years is a learning period before they venture into politics".

Give freedom to varsity students

Gerakan Youth approved a proposal to the government to amend Section 15 of the Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) to enable undergraduates to be more free to involve themselves in politics.

Gerakan youth conference Other than that, Gerakan Youth is seeking the setting up of a Student Consultative Council which combined student leaders and the administration of public and private Institutions of Higher Learning to discuss problems that would crop up as a result of the amendment.

Gerakan Youth also proposed to the government to give full freedom to the media to report news and the media should be given full power to supervise the publication of their reports.

Seven other resolutions mostly proposing to the government that the interests and need of the people be given priority, among others, in tackling the high cost of living and education.

The conference was opened by Gerakan vice-president Mah Siew Keong and it was also attended by BN Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin.

- Bernama