Almost all of us have witnessed the charisma of Obama on various news channels, and how he just sweeped the youth of their feet by his inspiring speeches, which finally became the prime reason of his historic victory.
And now it's election time in India. Seeing the results by courting the youth in America, the political parties here have already set their eyes on how to gather more public attention especially of youth. If the 2004 general elections was fought on the platform of the aam admi, then the forthcoming 2009 Lok Sabha elections is going to be all about luring the young voters.
Rahul Gandhi nowadays is going full throttle campaigning Gujrat. Even back here in Delhi, and at many other metropolitan cities, like Bombay and Lucknow huge banners of Rahul Gandhi have been put up alongside bridges or at crossroads. I have also seen some of the other ministers posters like that of Kapil Sibal & Pranab Mukherjee in markets, and other public places.But the one that has both shocked and impressed me most is the "Advani for PM "campaign. Consider this, Mr. LK Advani, even at 81 years of age is running for the post of prime minister. Now that's something commendable. I doubt if any country had an older prime minister or president than this. He has started trying out weights at a gymnasium :P, launched a personal website(on his 81st bday), chats online to reach out to students.
I usually get these ads on Orkut. And on some digging I found that advertisements similar to these goes to approximately 2000 websites mostly visited by Indians via google adsense. That's quite a lot of easy bucks for google.Actually, all this is a positive sign. Hopefully political parties will now start taking youth more seriously and won't just play pitiable vote-bank politics after all we comprise approx. 30% of India's population. what's your say?? Cheers!!!.
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The signs are good that the political parties are trying to woo the young people of India to vote for them.
But the problem is that the young people of India are stupid arses who do not go out and vote only.
I do hope this changes in the upcoming general elections and we all proudly flaunt our inked finger.
Well, as I said in my post the government has already started taking youth point of view seriously. I have learnt that their ate meetings organized by Kapil Sibal ,where the purpose of the meeting is to bring together representatives from government and youth forums to discuss functioning of government and how positively youth can participate in daily working of government.
That's more like a democratic India. :)
Seriously Advani is some politician
Gawd....I really doubt any other country would actually have such an ancient politician, who wishes to be elected as PM.
But then again, who else can the BJP possibly project?
The coming elections are going to be really interesting.
As far as Rahul Gandhi is concerned, please do not start comparing his forced charisma which is more due to him being from Nehru-Gandhi family than from being a charming politician in his own right with that of effortless elegance and bursting brilliance of Obama.
Actually by promoting a party like Congress with its pseudo-secularist agenda and feudal democratic setup, we have still not realized the long cherished dreams of our founding fathers.
Plus on one hand Obama is a Harvard scholar while Rahul Gandhi could enter DU only through sports quota. So there is a wide intellectual chasm between the two.
As far as Advaniji is concerned, his effort at this age is really charming.
But apart from him Morarji Desai, our first non-congress PM was also elected at the age of 81.
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