India is known to be the largest democracy in the whole world – we all know that, not something new. Democracy, by definition, is the govt. of the people, for the people and by the people; we all know that too. But I rather prefer calling democracy, the govt. off the people, far the people and bye the people. Offensive? Please don’t think I am not a patriot or I don’t love my India or am not proud of it. I am really proud of my nation and I am sorry for showing such pessimistic attitude. This is, however, a fact less heard but to which most of you agree with me.
I am one of the citizens of India who comes under that category of
the society that is known to be the future of the nation. Yes, you guessed it right;
I am part of the youth – youth who come under the age of 35, a chunk that forms
70% of the entire population of India. Yet, the political class of our nation
has not been able to fulfil the aspirations of this huge chunk of population. In
the recent years, there has been a spate of the scams that we have come across.
Corruption seems like a monster that has dreadfully taken hold of the entire
political system of ours.
You would be surprised to know that there exists a 40-year age gap between an average Indian Citizen (who is 25 years old) and an average Indian Cabinet minister (who is 65 years old). And mind you, these figures come from a survey conducted by ‘The Economist’. I do not deny the significance of the experience garnered over the age of 65 years but if that experience is utilized to guide those young bloods who are ultimately the future of the nation, that greying of hairs will not go in vain. But, our policy makers have caused utter disappointment to the youth of our country. We do not have well paying jobs; we do not have an education system that can give us hands-on skills to get well paying jobs, the prices of even the daily use products are so much that we end up spending the maximum part of what we earn. Are all these aspirations anything out of the world that the youth hopes to have from those who are running the country? Immense drainage to the nation’s exchequer causes burden on the part of the common man. Yes, our country has great achievers in name of Ambanis and Tatas but ultimately it is the common man who has to suffer.
Coming back to the age gap between the citizen and the Cabinet minister of our country, I would also like to mention about the misrepresentation of the young ministers in our govt. If the ministers target the youth during their election campaigns why are they found aloof when making the policies and implementing the promises that they make? This dishonesty is their failure among the youth.
Politics may be considered a dirty word for a majority of us but today’s youth has that zeal and enthusiasm to identify the loopholes of our political system and bring a change which starts at the grass root level. Of course, we are inexperienced, but then we also have the guts to fight and ultimately the strength to do it. Taking social media as tools of freedom of expression, we have long ways to go and together we can and we will do it.
