Monday, February 11, 2008

Today 70% of indian population is below the age of 40 yrs.The average school of thought is:
Have decent education, get a professional degree, get a good job, marry a decent girl/boy, earn a great amount of money & when u retire u should own a nice house in the countrside with a good car in the garage & children settled in their lives.

We all are doing/wanna do any professional course & we are spending our4-6 career defining years in the institutes providing these courses. But are we becoming better citizens after passing out from these institutes? An example to more exemplify my point:"On Republic day & Independence day, we all buy flags but do we know next day where they are? They are on streets, footpaths and many other places and many a time we walk over them without even noyicing about them." Do we fully recognize the importance of our national flag? Let me tell you a story to show the importance of flag. When Alexander-The Great with his army reached Bharat, he was stopped at a village on the border of Bharat by the villagers and a few soldiers of Poros. Alexander couldn't defeat the villagers & move forward.His gud luck and he found a traitor who told him the secret to defeat the villagers. He told Alexander until the flag of Poros is there on the top, he could not defet the villagers. On that night only, the flag was changed & next day, the villagers were defeated & Alexander moved on. This is the importance of a flag.

Our majority of population is below the age of 40. We all want to be engineers, doctors,IS, entreprenuers, architects, fashion designers, writers, journalist etc. and working with an MNC and having a huge paycheque in our pocket at the end of the month.Why our country is being governed by people who don't belong to this majority? Why are they not being replaced? Because younger people are not joining politics.They don't have the compettion.All political parties more or less have same ideologies & way of functioning.Why don't we want to join poltics?Because it's dirty or our parents wanted us to be engineers,doctors,etc. No, because we don't want to. We don't see poltics as a career option. It's a reality. When by preparing 1-2 yrs for a professional course & studying 4-6 yrs. a professional course, u get a good job, all this in a comfortable envoirnment.Then, why would anyone want to spend his whole day out on streets & villages, irrespective of weather, for years. But to upgrade the level of governance, we need young people with new visions. We need younger (corporaters, mayors, MLAs, MPs and younger cabinet minister). Toady in our elections the use of right to vote is exercised mainly by rural India. Majority of people in cities do not vote. Why? Because they cannot connect with the ideologies and policies of present poltical parties. They do not have parties with policies, which they want, in their agenda. We need young people form political parties, contest elections to get this huge population to exercise their right to vote.

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