23 Pct Indian Youth Likely to Vote According To Caste: Survey

Bangalore: Today’s Indian youth no longer exercise their voting rights just for the sake of casting a vote but they do so to elect leaders after thorough research and who also match upto their expectations as they are aware of the present needs of the country, reports Paramita Ghosh for Hindustan Times.

Despite the fact that 21.7 percent youngsters in Lucknow and 21.3 percent in Patna see their future with a party, just 10 percent in Ahmedabad assume it, according to the HT-MaRS Youth survey 2013. In Mumbai only 9.5 percent youth are interested to be politically active.

The unstable interest levels are associated to the different ways in which the youth across the country connect with politics. Shiv Vishvanathan, a sociologist said, “In the hierarchy of development, places such as Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmedabad have done better. Its youth know whether they support a party or not, their agenda will be served and in any competition for material advancement, they will dominate. They can afford to be lukewarm about politics,” as reported HT.

On the other hand, for youth in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, politics is considered as a diversion and a necessity on account of the socio-economic inequalities and for them caste plays a big political factor.

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