Youths, who usually avoid expressing views on politics, turned chatty on local body polls. The net savvy genre is sparing time out to post their comment on the social networking site. This trend has waged a war of words on the site among them. While some favour a political party, others oppose it raising slogans in favour of other.
Facebook accounts of several youths are filled with comments. Saurabh Agarwal, a net savvy youth, has extended congratulation in advance for poll results by posting a comment, though election is scheduled on April 28 followed by results on April 30. Brijpal Singh retaliated with the comment — the party will never win.
Other youth campaign in favour of the Congress. He posts a comment, “Vote for the Congress.” Similarly, they express their opinion on different political parties, highlighting different works and projects started by the party. living in other cities, the youths are having a pulse of ongoing activities of the polls in the state.
Youths are much vocal. They want to participate in politics in a different manner. While the voters keep their choice secret, the young genre openly express their views. The political
parties have also seeking views of the youths and along with campaigning, the net canvassing is also going side by side. For the political parties, this was an effort to woo the youth voters.
“It is changed scenario now. Social networking sites have given a platform to express views on different issues. It is an interesting fact that the youths have stared expressing their opinion on political matters,” a political leader, who created a page to seek favour of youths on social networking site, said.
He said that everybody was free to make comment on the matter. Comment pouring in on the page gave them an idea about the way wind was blowing. He said that the comments of the youths mattered a lot since all the political parties were trying to focus on the youths for the impact of youths was growing in politics.