Rahul Gandhi and his Youth Politics

Congress, the peoples party has gone through a lot of changes over the years. Since it started it has metamorphosed itself. After great inspiring leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, they now have their eyes on Rahul Gandhi, who started his political career at a very early age. He has been setting a standard to promote the youth politics and help the youth of India to move in the right direction. He is a motivational factor to all the youngsters and the main reason is probably because he wants the youth to join politics and give them a national platform to take part in the decisions to strengthen the nation.

India is one of the youngest democracies in the world with 60% of its population between 18-45 years. Over the years India has seen many political parties, great leaders but now its time to change it a little by giving young people a chance to participate. Rahul Gandhi was the first one to propose this idea to the congress in the meetings and that’s the reason why we have young MP’s like Sachin Pilot, Sandeep Dikshit and Rahul himself.

He is popular and someone who is not afraid to speak the truth. He wants to bring change in the country so he has recruited a lot of young members in the party since the youth has a lot of impact on the political affairs. India has its majority of its population in its younger years and they are blooming with confidence.

The Amethi MP’s ambition of making Indian Youth Congress the “world’s largest youth body in politics” may soon bear fruit. Rahul Gandhi calling the youth to participate in the politics is getting a marvelous response, He has elected 200 electorates aged 18 to 35. He has also insisted that the party’s youth organisations hold internal elections for posts.

It is expected that Rahul would propose few names to be included in the cabinet or at least for MoS seats to encourage youths in the politics. But what is disheartening to hear is that youth politics is restricted only to the sons and daughters of the political leaders because almost all the candidates come from political families. It would have been more fruitful if the youths were elected beyond the families having political background.