THE POLL dates for 15^th Lok Sabha elections have been announced. World would watch the election of largest democracy of the world in five faces from April 16 to May 23. The 15 Lok Sabha elections would decide the fate of six national and 224 regional parties. A total of 740 millions voters would decide the next ruling government of India.

 
Election commission has given the details of the young voters which amounts 24 per cent of electorate this time. The contradiction is that India has more than 40 per cent MP aged between 50 and 90 years of age. All the parties are planning to woo the young voters to get the maximum number of seats in the next parliamentary elections. We can only hope that parties would also increase the seat share for the young politicians. But it does not seem to happen. All the parties want votes of youngsters but for oldies only.
 

Congress has Rahul Gandhi as the young face of party. Rahul has been seen visiting slums and villages of the different states for projecting himself as a ‘real’ leader. BJP prime ministerial candidate LK Advani has also showed that he is a tech-savvy with a vision of a youngster by lifting dumbbells at the age of 78. Advani has taken the support of online advertising to attract the young Internet users. He is also planning to visit college campus across the country to propagate his ideology ahead of LS polls. He is asked for volunteers to support in his college campaign and many have come ahead to support him. 
 
India has some young Turks in both houses of the parliament. Rajesh Pilot’s son Sachin Pilot, Madhav Rao Scindhias’s son Jyotiraditya Scindhia, Indian National Congress also has former MP Jitendra Prasad’s son Jatin Prasad, Union minister Murli Deora’s son Milind Deora, actor-cum-politician late Sunil Dutt’s daughter Priya Dutt, former Andhra Pradesh CM NT Ramarao’s daughter D Purandeshwari and few more.
 
Other parties also have young faces like former Lok Sabha Speaker PA Sangma’s daughter Agatha Sangma, former CM of Tamilnadu M Karunanidhi’s daughter Konimozhi and NCP president Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule are few examples of the leaders who are carrying forward their political lineage.
 
Samajwadi Party has Akhilesh Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav. Kalyan Singh’s son Rajbir Singh, Bhajan Lal’s son Kuldip Vishnoi, Prakash Singh Badal’s son Sukhbir Singh Badal and few others have stepped into their parents’ shoes.
 
It seems that we are having many young leaders in Indian politics. But the other side of this coin is not as bright as it should be. All the aforementioned young leaders have not come from grassroots. Most of them have won just because of their political background. They have not gone to the process of making a politician. Despite this fact, their capabilities can not be questioned. But the dependence of all these leaders on senior politicians in the party for almost all the important decisions shows that they are more of a memo-queen of their political parties.
 
This is not a good sign that young politicians have not been accepted unless they have any political background. We need young politicians those can understand the need of youngsters, which amount 24 per cent of registered voters or approx 180 million youths. Indian youth need the good professional institutes, good educational and health policies, good job opportunities, better life style, good roads, availability of all the brands in his/her city, corruption less society, proper security in public places, comfortable transport facilities and many more. Youths are more demanding than other ‘aam aadmi’. They are looking for an ‘Obama’ to happen in India. Their demands are not too much. They know the capacity India and ready to extend their hand for the incredible change in India’s future. But who is ready to hold their hand.
 
If they can prosper the Silicon Valley in USA then why can’t they do the same magic in Bangalore? If most of the well trained Indian doctors and engineers are working for western countries to make sure the proper running of research institutes and health centers, why can’t they do this in India? They can do it but they need something in return.
 
After watching complicated political strategies, the young generation of India wants to know about the reality in the promises of the politicians, young or old. The need of the government, which doesn’t play political tantrums by raising caste, religion, regional and other trivial issues, in their manifesto. The young voters would definitely look for the government that would be able to solve the problem of economic slump. They would vote for the government, which would create jobs for them in times of crisis.
 
We can only hope that next government would listen to these issues and surely, they would not ignore this voice and if they would do, it would be at their own peril. Is anyone listening?