I don’t understand why non-violence is so unwanted in society,” says noted Gandhian activist and president of Ekta Parishad Rajagopal PV.
Rajagopal PV is in city for the three day Youth Training Camp organised by Ekta Parishad. On Monday he interacted with the media persons under the interactive session Young Media People Interaction held at Gandhi Bhavan. During the session he spoke on peace and non-violence.
Rajagopal majorly talked about the urban youth and the rural youth. He said that the role of today’s youth is a major one in encouraging non-violence in society. “Youth has the power to change. Change the scenarios and change the conditions. If youth will take a stand then only the situations will change for betterment,” he added.
He said that the children should be trained since their school time. “Everything needs to be worked upon through grass-root level. To inculcate non-violence and peace in the personality of youngsters we should train them.”
Elaborating further he said, “I have talked to few schools, colleges and universities about training students for peace and non-violence. Hope to get positive response from them.”
Rajagopal then quoted about various conflicts. He said that it is required to understand the dimensions of conflicts then only the youth will know how to work and in what direction.
He said that he is recently working on history based conflict. “We need to know history well and then need to react,” he added. “I believe that the social groups and government has a long distance. We have a history of social movement in solving the problems. This distance needs to be covered for a healthy society.”
During the training camp he highlighted about the issues related to youth. “We are targeting 500 districts of the country to train youth and bring them together for peace and non-violence.”
He talked about the nationwide campaign ‘Youth for Justice and Peace’. “This campaign is a way to bring youngsters together working in mainstream industry to contribute their bit for the society.” Rajagopal informed that in year 2019 Ekta Parishad has a plan to carry out foot-march from New Delhi to Geneva observing 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.