Youth

YOUTH

On the roads of Indian democracy, we have travelled for about 65 years now and shall continue the journey for years to come in the same rickety ancient grubby vehicle of ours that has driven us for so long. The list of travellers is an assemblage of young dazzling men and women. The blatant contrast between them arouses debates. It makes us ponder over the role of youth in Indian politics.

Good morning friends, I, Parth Kumar Saria, today is here to enlighten you on the topic – ‘WE’, yes my friends, each one of us, sitting in this very room, represent – ‘YOUTH’.

Youth is the joy, the little bird that has broken out of the eggs and is eagerly waiting to spread out its wings in the open sky of freedom and hope. Youth is the spring of Life. It is the age of discovery and dreams.

India is of largest youth population in the world today. The entire world is eyeing India as a source of technical manpower. They are looking at our youth as a source of talents at low costs for their future super profits. If Indian youth make up their mind and work in close unity with working class people, they can hold the political power in their hands. Indian youth has the power to make our country from developing nation to a developed nation. Is it a dream? No, their dreams take them to stars and galaxies to the far corners of the unknown and some of them like our own Kalpana Chawla pursue their dream, till they realize it and die for it in process.

The youth hopes for a world free of poverty, unemployment, inequality and exploitation of man by man – a world free of discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, language and gender – a world full of creative challenges and opportunities to conquer them. But let us convert these hopes in reality.

The role of youth is of most importance in today’s time. It has underplayed itself in field of politics. It should become aspiring entrepreneur rather than mere workers. It can play a vital role in elimination of...