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Youth Involvement in Indian Politics
Introduction
Politics is a practise any theory of influencing other people on a civic or individual level.More narrowly it refers to achieving and accesing positions of governance-organized control over human comunity,particularly a state.A variety of methods in employed in politics which include promoting its own political views amoung people,negotiation with other political subject,making laws and exercising force including warfare against adversaries.Politics is exercused on a wide range of social level,from clans and tribes of traditional society,through modern local goverments,companies and institutions upto sovereign states to international level.
Importance of Youth in Indian politics
In 2004, 50% of the Indian population was aged 30 years or younger; however, only 35 out of 543 Lok Sabha members (0.06%) were aged under 35. Nevertheless, a World Values Survey conducted by the World bank showed that the proportion of people aged 18–24 who identified themselves as "very" or "rather" interested in politics was around 50%, an increase of 15% since 1990.
Bharat Uday Mission is one outfit of IITians who are planning to enter in politics at a certain point of time. These aren't sufficient enough to change the trend of present political situation in India. Many such ideologies have to be developed right from the schooling and certain schools have taken this initiative like TVSMHSS, Madurai.
All major political parties have youth and student wings, such as Indian Youth Congress, Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and Democratic Youth Federation Of India

Where are youth in Indian politics?

Not many. The vast bulk of these legislators are elderly or middle-aged men, pot-bellied, not highly educated, and not terribly tuned in to the dynamics of globalization. There are only 44 women in the new parliament. Only about 35 parliamentarians are under the age of 35.

But more than 50 percent of India's population of 1.1 billion consists of those below 30 years

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