Community Youth Collective has galvanised youth into preparing a ‘unmanifesto’ to be presented to political parties ahead of the 2014 general elections.
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| Priorities: Access to quality education. |
One of the easily forgotten themes of debates that have surrounded the upcoming elections is the lack of youth participation and absence of genuine representatives in Parliament.
Indian history has witnessed many young people leading the country towards independence; both Gandhi and Nehru became politically active at a young age.
However, over the last few decades, our enthusiasm seems to have been muted, arguably due to deep-rooted corruption and government insensitivity towards various social issues.
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