DEMOCRACY is the buzz word for our political system.
What kind of democracy is this where a nation with majority of voting population lies between 18- 40yrs elects a majority of people above 60 to power? Are we really satisfied with the way our country is being governed? Should it not bother us that at the age people generally take retirement and rest, our politicians actually become eligible to be at the helm of affairs? Why is it so that people below 50 years are considered as too young in Indian politics?
The country desperately needs some young leaders who personify energy, enthusiasm, morality, and diligence. No doubt we have progressed a lot in the last 64years but the development pace would have been completely different had some young torchbearers led this process of development like Sanjay Gandhi,Rajesh Pilot,Pramod Mahajan.
Nowadays we have only a handful of young leaders like Rahul Gandhi, Sachin Pilot, Milind Deora, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Varun Gandhi, etc, but they are in the political scenario because they belong to influential political families. It is next to impossible to find a young leader with no political family background.
Today,youth are not interested in actively participating in the political field. They are content with what they are doing and how the country is being governed & only feel its dirty politics. But this reason seems to hold no ground seeing the discontent shown by the youngsters towards cases like Anna Hazare's Jan Lokpal movement,Reservation system, Jessica lal murder case etc. The youth of modern India are aware of the problems faced by our country. Given a chance they would be ready to change the political condition of the country for better.
Time has come to reform political system & electoral system of India by adopting certain below mentioned actions:
- Retirement age for contestant in elections should be 70yrs
- Contestant should hold Bachelors Degree
- No criminal record(if any case pending against them should come up clean through fast track court)
- Foreigners having Indian Citizenship shouldn't be allowed to contest
As for the youth of our country, they can contribute in more ways than just contesting elections. Much can be done in areas like educating people, raising awareness about various social ills, and many other areas.
We can just wish that the next time we go to vote we find more names of youngsters who can make our country a better place to live in.
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