Join politics, shun notion that it's dirty work: Politicians to youths

The BJP, Congress, and the AAP Saturday asked the youth to shun the notion that politics is a "dirty job" and appealed to them to join the public life to take the country forward.

The parties' spokespersons -- Sambit Patra (BJP), Priyanka Chaturvedi (Congress) and Raghav Chadha (AAP) -- said this during the inaugural session of India Today Mind Rocks Youth Summit here.

Urging youngsters to join the public life, Patra said, "There is a famous saying -- if good people are not ready to be part of politics, then they should be ready to be ruled by the bad ones."
Chadha said, "Traditionally, families want a lucrative, standard, conventional career for their children such as medicine, engineering, and chartered accountancy. They usually think that politics is dirty work."
He said, "Sixty-five per cent of India's population is aged below 35. In 2020, the average age in India will be 29. Therefore, it is important for the youth of India to step up and participate in politics."
On dynastic politics, Patra of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said, "It did not allow people like you and me to enter the mainstream politics for years. One of the biggest deterrents to development politics is dynastic politics."