DUSHANBE, March 2, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- A founding meeting of a local cell of Sozandagoni Vatan, which is the youth organization of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP), took place in the Shahrinav district on February 29.

Sozandagoni Vatan leader Adham Mirsaidov says their organization now has its local cells in Dushanbe, all districts and cities and Sughd and Khatlon provinces and districts subordinate to the center.

“In spring, we plan to open our cells in districts of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region,” Mirsaidov said.

According to him Sozandagoni Vatan now has some 8,000 members.  Besides, 52,000 young members of the People’s Democratic Party have automatically joined the organization.

Sozandagoni Vatan is the youth organization of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP).  The PDP created the Sozandagoni Vatan organization in July and its founding conference took place on July 27, 2011.  The conference elected Adham Mirsaidov, formerly head of the PDP organizing department, chairman of the Sozandagoni Vatan organization.  The main objective of the organization is in fostering a spirit of patriotism, devotion to ideas of national self-consciousness and independence of the country in the young generation.

Founded in 1993, the People’s Democratic Party of Tajikistan is the biggest political party in Tajikistan.  Its chairman is President Emomali Rahmon.  The party controls some 70 percent of seats in the lower house (Majlisi Namoyandagon) of the parliament.  It is the largest party, boasting more than 160,000 registered members.