Rahul Gandhi And Future Of Youth Politics
Rahul Gandhi hails from a powerful political family of India and is the son of Sonia Gandhi, Congress President and wife of the late Rajiv Gandhi, former Prime Minister of India . Rahul's great grand father Jawaharlal Nehru was one the founding members of the Congress party in independent India. Even though his mother entered active politics, Rahul did not show much interest until 2003. He slowly and steadily built his image as a youth force of the Congress party.
Rahul made his intentions to enter politics strongly by making a goodwill visit to Pakistan to watch the two nations play cricket. In May 2004, he contested the elections and won by a huge margin a seat in the Lok Sabha. He started his political career from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. His victory generated considerable media excitement and anchortext enthusiasm. The younger generation started looking up at him as a role model.
Rahul Gandhi has been working on steadily in building a strong image in the political scenario of the country. His steps are proving him to be a mature human being and is building confidence amongst his supporters that one day he will be the future of Indian politics. India is one of the world's youngest democracies with more than 60 per cent of its population between the age group of 18 and 45 years. With majority of population in its younger years, India is boozing with confidence and zeal and in coming years is ready to leave an impact on the world politics Modern Day Youth have been shaped by a variety of historical forces.
These forces are worth a second look, as the Indian youth is a major influence on the future operations. India has for the past six decades saw many parties, many ideologies, many brilliant vision and great leader. As our democracy is becoming stronger, it gave rise to many large and small political entities. Congress, the party of the people, has experienced many changes, since its inception. Over the years India has seen many great leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and others, who, with their unwavering commitment, courage and inspirational leadership helped youth of the nation to move in the right direction.
However, at this juncture, India welcomed Rahul Gandhi for the confidence of youth and being the motivating factor that can set standards for them. Rahul Gandhi almost single-handedly won more than 20 seats in Uttar Pradesh and the Congress party a total of 204 seats in the Lok Sabha . His decision to go alone in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh has proved to be very effective. Rahul Gandhi has taken up Bihar as his 'Battle zone' .On his Bihar Campaign the youth icon visited Patna Women's college driving the students crazy.
Rahul, who visited the college for an interactive session with the girls, had quite an impact on them. Rahul , projected a deep approach during his media interaction. Rahul is relying on the youth for Congress's new membership drive 'Team Bihar' to repeat the success achieved in UP. At the same time he tried to win over the confidence of the greats of Nitish Kumar, Jayalalita, Navin Patnaik and Mamta Banerjee by praising their works in their respective states.
