Power of Youth

 "Youth and Politics are the most hardest and compulsory thing to change in India. And anyone of them changes another surely changes."

The march of the Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad ABVP.

Dynamic, enthusiastic, rebellious, optimistic and full of high spirit these are the traits which define the Youth of India. For a youth, nothing is actually impossible that's why their participation in nation-building through politics is the most accepted change in the socio-political sphere. 

It was the young blood who came up with high spirited ideas and played a significant role in the freedom fight when the nation was struggling hard to overcome the atrocities of the British Raj.

The youth played a tremendous role in awakening people's instinct to fight for freedom and spreading awareness among Indians about the true face of British Raj and the revolution they were about to bring to attain freedom from the atrocious British government.

Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sukhdev Thapar, Shivram Rajguru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Ashfaqullah Khan were some of the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives at a very young age for the nation.

Today's youth has the potential to change the current political scenario of India. Youth have enormous untapped strength, ideas, innovation and innocence that could totally refresh the politics and build a vibrant India with fearless actions and youthful ideas. 

But the reality is that youth is alienated and they are becoming increasingly disengaged, the youth feel disconnected from current events due to lack of assistance and guidance, lack of experience, and lack of adequate knowledge, which causes them to be less likely to get involved in politics, which creates a trend that the youth is least interested in politics, which causes politicians to ignore almost 35% share of the youth of India's total population in their political campaigns.

This untapped strength of the Youth is often exploited by the chaotic elements of society. Most of the time when the nation faces bandh's/shutdown or riots the fuel for such incidents is the exploited and ignorant youth who was ignored by the society, who's ideas and innovations were crushed down just because of the arrogance of having an experience of a lifetime in politics. The condition of Youth in Kashmir is not hidden from anyone, the separatist leaders exploited the young minds enough to carry out stone pelting on the armed forces in the valley.

Stone pelting in Kashmir

But people should not forget that it was the youth who fueled the revolutionary politics to attain freedom from the Britishers. It was the young freedom fighters who played the role being in front and not bowing down without a fight. The youth when wants something or decides to bring change it becomes an unstoppable and inevitable force. In the Jessica Lal murder case it was the youth who decided to bring justice to her, who voiced their opinions through protests and marches and boosted the judicial process.

• The Assam movement, 1979-1985
• Anti Mandal Commission protests, 1990
• Anti Reservation Protests, 2006
• Nirbhaya movement, 2012
• Pro Jallikattu movement, 2014
• FTII Agitation, 2015
• Rohit Vemula Case 2016

Apart from the Jessica Lal Murder case, these are some of the movements nation remembers which were lead by the youth successfully and displayed the strength of the youngsters.

Chhavi Rajwat India's first female sarpanch of village Soda, Rajasthan.

Chhavi Rajwat is an example of youth being part of change and politics. She despite having an MBA degree and a corporate job left the city life and went back to her village for developing rural India.

So if you have the strength to fight and courage to win with honesty in your heart you need to get rid of your reluctance of joining politics as the country needs you and as they say, 

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.