YPOST

YOUTH- CONNECTING PEOPLE

INDIA’S general election, the world’s biggest democratic exercise,commences from April 7th. Voting will take place, across 35 states and territories, until May 12th. The country is divided into 543 constituencies with over 1.5m voters. Many lives has improved with the improvement of the growth after a decade of rise in incomes. According to the well known research centre around 70% are the ones who are dissatisfied with India’s prospects.

In this hechtic and rough schedule of the current political situation, at the national level there are two broad groups which is led by Congress on one hand and hindu dominated Bharatiya Janata Party( BJP ) on the other.

The coming election is a chance to see these three broad trends reshape politics. There was an arguement which was made by the urban people regarding the decision of electing Manmohan Singh as the prime minister. They stated that because of them in 2009, an economist like him was elected for this position which would create

 jobs keep inflation down.Such voters care less about caste or religion, and more about economic prospects. This matters for how politics works. Older voters are more likely to be treated as part of an identity group, and then bought off an old-style politics voters also seek pay-offs for their group, like governmental jobs. Yet that approach looks to be outdated, at least among younger, more urban and wealthier voters. They are increasingly likely to consider themselves individuals, not members of groups. Bribing voters may become less useful if group leaders struggle to deliver promised vote banks, as is more and more the case. Voters in todays scenario seem to be judging politicians mostly by their performance. But in the past, getting re-elected was mostly decided on the delivering of proper and smooth economic growth. In state governments, parties presiding over decent economic growth have been re elected like in Gujarat and Bihar and those who have failed to deliver have been uprooted like in UP and Rajasthan.

Television matters most. Those rallies are partly designed to get coverage on evening news broadcasts, regional and national.New technology is increasingly important. The better organised parties use mass text messages to raise lots of small donations. It won't be incorrect to say that  earlier generation was content to be ruled and ruled over and over Expectations of youth in India is more. Ambitions have grown non-linearly, but our system has not kept up. the candidate must be some one who is knowledgeble, who inspires young voter, the professional, educated, and who doesn’t look to the state for benefits.

Soumyadip Roy 
M.sc Media, P.G 1