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[00:00:00] in the history of space,
[00:00:03] there are stories that Prime Minister Narendra Modi
[00:00:07] mentioned in the 136th episode of his Mann Ki Baat program.
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[00:00:25] report will also be checked
[00:00:27] students are rejected Punjab National Bank, symbol of trust.
[00:00:49] that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said that the Gen Z movement
[00:00:53] is not against the country, and we should listen to them and
[00:00:57] engage in dialogue with them. He said that Gen Z
[00:01:00] is far more honest and patriotic than our generation, so
[00:01:04] their intentions should not be questioned. After the ongoing movement at Jantar Mantar,
[00:01:08] to take the exam, an atmosphere was created across the country
[00:01:11] regarding Gen Z, that this entire generation is bad
[00:01:16] not come with and they are all anti-national.
[00:01:21] not form a common merit. Today, we will first decode this dialogue between Mohan Bhagwat and Gen Z.
[00:01:24] After this, we will show you a bitter truth
[00:01:28] about India's examination system. In our country, the success rate of the UPSC exam
[00:01:31] is only
[00:01:33] 0.17%. That is, less than half a percent.
[00:01:38] due to just half a mark In the year 2025, out of 576 thousand
[00:01:41] candidates, only 958
[00:01:45] students were successful in UPSC, they passed, and
[00:01:48] the rest were considered rejected.
[00:01:52] The entire system of competitive exams
[00:01:54] have received medals is actually less about finding merit
[00:01:57] and more about elimination. Have you ever thought
[00:02:01] what happens to the 99%
[00:02:04] candidates who get rejected in these exams?
[00:02:07] And finally, we will tell you the truth about Gen Z's very negligible
[00:02:11] participation in Indian politics.
[00:02:14] India has the largest Gen Z population
[00:02:17] in the world, 38 crore, but
[00:02:21] even then, there are only six MPs
[00:02:24] and 20 MLAs from Gen Z across the country.
[00:02:28] Today, the big question is whether Gen Z's
[00:02:31] representation in our country's parliament and assemblies
[00:02:34] should now increase. The RSS chief
[00:02:37] today spoke with the youth of the country on many issues,
[00:02:41] including Gen Z education and reservation, and around 2,000
[00:02:44] students from nearly 100 cities across the country
[00:02:47] participated. Today, the world's largest voluntary
[00:02:50] organization, the RSS, has held its biggest dialogue with India's new generation,
[00:02:54] nearly 38 crore Gen Z and 35 crore Gen Alpha.
[00:02:58] Those born between
[00:03:00] 1997 and 2012
[00:03:04] are called Gen Z, and
[00:03:07] you will also have to attach today their age is between 14 and 29
[00:03:09] years. So today I will tell you
[00:03:13] that at the place in Mumbai where I am standing today, a very big
[00:03:17] event took place. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat was present here.
[00:03:21] There were about two thousand Gen Z children
[00:03:24] here, students. Most of them were school students.
[00:03:27] And
[00:03:31] today, all the questions that Gen Z had in their minds
[00:03:36] He is counted among those were asked to Mohan Bhagwat ji, and he answered them one by one.
[00:03:40] So first, I will show you Mohan Bhagwat ji's
[00:03:43] most important statement today. Watch this first.
[00:03:46] The movement is also a way of dialogue.
[00:03:50] है
[00:03:54] We are sitting here and talking, if it's understood, fine.
[00:03:57] Otherwise, our
[00:04:18] and unsuccessful students.
[00:04:27] BJP, or similarly for other parties.
[00:04:37] youthful energy and new thinking.
[00:05:02] every child was behaving with there is a lot that needs to be done in Indian education. It's not happening in this regard.
[00:05:05] When we were people, when we were of Gen Z's age,
[00:05:09] our generation's nature was such
[00:05:11] That's why the term "brown sahib" that we would accept what the elders said.
[00:05:14] We wouldn't question it.
[00:05:17] That was the situation at that time.
[00:05:19] Now Gen
[00:05:22] Z, they ask questions, they need logical answers,
[00:05:26] correct?
[00:05:29] And with that, they need love.
[00:05:30] चाहिए,
[00:05:33] If there is love, then only can we answer. If we don't know each other,
[00:05:36] there's no relationship between us, and you ask a question, I'll say,
[00:05:40] "Who are you to ask?" That's how it'll be.
[00:05:43] But if we know each other, and there's some relationship, then if you ask, I'll answer.
[00:05:47] So these talks should
[00:05:50] happen.
[00:05:53] In a democracy, this is the way.
[00:05:55] In English, it's called debate,
[00:05:59] but we have a word here, Shastrartha.
[00:06:01] In that, there's no वाद and प्रतिवाद
[00:06:05] (argument and counter-argument). There's पूर्व पक्ष and उत्तर पक्ष
[00:06:09] (proponent and opponent). So we all look at the arguments, and
[00:06:44] so the problem here is that in our society, people who earn
[00:06:48] good money, but they are laborers, then
[00:06:51] they don't get prestige, they don't get
[00:06:55] respect in society. And we need to bring
[00:06:58] dignity of labor into our society. We need to respect them,
[00:07:02] and gradually after that, people will start
[00:07:05] doing their work. People who are earning their livelihood by doing
[00:07:08] any work, they will not feel ashamed
[00:07:12] that people think we are doing some small work. No work is small or big.
[00:07:16] You have to talk about this for everyone.
[00:07:18] पड़ेगी,
[00:07:22] But
[00:07:24] here, if I summarize
[00:07:27] this entire dialogue for you,
[00:07:30] if I extract
[00:07:32] its essence,
[00:07:36] then many people were thinking that perhaps Mohan
[00:07:40] Bhagwat would say something different from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
[00:07:43] Many people came looking for the spice
[00:07:47] that there might be some differences between the RSS and the BJP or the government.
[00:07:51] However, the RSS chief did not mention
[00:07:54] the government even once. He did not mention
[00:07:57] Prime Minister Modi even once. But there are
[00:08:01] many similarities in their thinking.
[00:08:05] For example, when at Jantar Mantar
[00:08:07] so many obscene videos
[00:08:10] were made about Prime Minister Modi, in which very abusive language
[00:08:14] was used against him, this became a very big issue. But what did Prime Minister Modi
[00:08:18] say? He said, "These are our own children. I
[00:08:22] want to forgive all of them. These are not someone else's children; they are our own children,
[00:08:25] children of this country. Mistakes happen. We should sit with these children
[00:08:29] and explain to them, and I forgive all these children,
[00:08:33] and I want to work for the country
[00:08:36] with them."
[00:08:38] हूं,
[00:08:40] RSS chief Bhagwat also said almost the same thing,
[00:08:44] that he trusts the youth. Our Gen Z youth
[00:08:47] are not bad; they need love, they also want to ask questions,
[00:08:51] but at the same time, they also need love. And he also said
[00:08:55] that Gen Z are children of our family; it is our responsibility
[00:08:59] to care for them, guide them, and show them the right
[00:09:02] direction. So if
[00:09:06] you look at the ideologies of both of them on this entire matter,
[00:09:10] the ideologies and the thinking are almost the same
[00:09:14] for both.
[00:09:17] One more thing, after this dialogue, the atmosphere
[00:09:20] that prevailed in our country regarding Gen Z was that Gen Z
[00:09:24] is becoming very ill-mannered, their language is becoming very bad. Gen Z
[00:09:28] जेंजी,
[00:09:31] makes videos in such bad, indecent language,
[00:09:34] they have nothing to do with principles.
[00:09:38] I want to tell you my experience today. There is an organization,
[00:09:41] है,
[00:10:15] full responsibility, and imagine, such young children
[00:10:18] had
[00:10:20] this dialogue with Mohan Bhagwat ji. This
[00:10:23] was
[00:10:26] you understand that
[00:10:29] they kept
[00:10:31] silently
[00:10:34] listening to his words. I
[00:10:37] was thinking that Mohan Bhagwat ji is 75 years old,
[00:10:41] and the children who were here today were all 17,
[00:10:44] 18 years old, at most 20 years old.
[00:10:48] But look at the dialogue, Gen Z, school
[00:10:52] children, are sitting in front, under 20 years old,
[00:10:55] and in front is 75-year-old Mohan
[00:10:58] Bhagwat. And on the other hand, if you look at Delhi, then
[00:11:02] there is 75-year-old Prime Minister Narendra
[00:11:05] Modi. Now in our country, you see, 75-year-old
[00:11:09] Mohan Bhagwat and 75-year-old Narendra Modi
[00:11:13] are talking to Gen Z, they are being talked to in their language.
[00:11:16] Mohan Bhagwat today had a very
[00:11:20] interesting dialogue with the children.
[00:11:23] Some things he said in Hindi, some things he said in English,
[00:11:27] and all in all, you can say that the dialogue
[00:11:31] was very good.
[00:11:31] था
[00:11:35] Today, Prime Minister Modi attended the convocation ceremony of IIT Delhi.
[00:11:39] In this program, he said that every generation has
[00:11:43] its own challenges and responsibilities, and for this generation, the coming
[00:11:46] time is even more challenging. And in the next 35 years,
[00:11:50] the work of this generation will be the foundation of a developed India.
[00:11:54] Prime Minister Modi told the students not to just ask questions,
[00:11:57] but also to show the courage to find solutions. He said that today many students have received
[00:12:04] medals for their achievements, but if there were more girls among them,
[00:12:07] it would have been even better.
[00:12:09] Today,
[00:12:13] many
[00:12:15] students
[00:12:19] for their achievements.
[00:12:22] I congratulate everyone
[00:12:26] very much for this.
[00:12:29] But if there were one or two more daughters, it would have been even better.
[00:12:42] Sorry, why one or two? There should have been more.
[00:12:44] थी,
[00:12:48] Today at IIT Delhi,
[00:12:52] some AI-related
[00:12:55] initiatives have also been started. For this,
[00:12:58] I also wish
[00:13:01] all of you many congratulations.
[00:13:04] Friends,
[00:13:07] today
[00:13:09] all of you and all
[00:13:12] the students,
[00:13:15] I am not Baba Bageshwar,
[00:13:17] हूं,
[00:13:21] but something must be going on.
[00:13:23] Friends, you all know
[00:13:26] that every generation
[00:13:28] faces
[00:13:31] its own challenges during that time period.
[00:13:33] है
[00:13:36] And every generation also has its own
[00:13:39] national responsibility.
[00:13:41] Our country
[00:13:45] has also seen that time of slavery
[00:13:48] when
[00:13:51] that generation had
[00:13:54] only one goal,
[00:13:57] the independence of India.
[00:14:00] For that,
[00:14:03] they made sacrifices,
[00:14:06] struggled for a long time.
[00:14:09] Today we
[00:14:12] are breathing in independent India.
[00:14:16] Behind this is the penance,
[00:14:19] sacrifice, and martyrdom
[00:14:23] of that generation. And friends, in today's era,
[00:14:27] we have different challenges,
[00:14:31] and therefore our responsibilities are also different.
[00:14:34] In the next
[00:14:37] 30-35 years
[00:14:41] of your life,
[00:14:44] whatever you do
[00:14:47] will influence our journey towards a developed India.
[00:14:50] Today our
[00:14:53] youth are building their own launch vehicles,
[00:14:57] launching rockets,
[00:15:00] and achieving such feats
[00:15:04] that only a select few countries
[00:15:08] in the world have achieved.
[00:15:10] I am confident
[00:15:13] that today somewhere
[00:15:16] a young engineer of the country
[00:15:19] is proudly saying,
[00:15:23] है,
[00:15:26] "First in my bloodline to build
[00:15:28] a rocket."
[00:16:08] And I firmly believe
[00:16:12] that everything from chips to ships
[00:16:15] will be built right here by your hands.
[00:16:19] बनेगा
[00:16:25] And some young person is confidently saying
[00:16:29] today that in this sector, the youth are creating
[00:16:33] new possibilities.
[00:16:35] Somewhere drones are being used in fields.
[00:16:37] Drones are delivering medicines.
[00:16:40] Drones are helping in the country's defense and security.
[00:16:44] And today
[00:16:47] some young person is saying,
[00:16:50] "First in my bloodline
[00:16:54] to make a drone."
[00:16:56] Friends,
[00:16:59] India's startup revolution has been shaped
[00:17:03] and strengthened by youth like you
[00:17:06] from this generation.
[00:17:09] So many founders have emerged
[00:17:12] from this institute. If so much can happen
[00:17:15] from one institute,
[00:17:19] then imagine how much great power
[00:17:23] is being prepared across the country.
[00:17:25] I have seen the journey
[00:17:28] of many IIT alumni. The reason for their success
[00:17:32] was
[00:17:36] that they identified
[00:17:40] those questions that the world
[00:17:43] had
[00:17:47] stopped considering as questions. They
[00:17:49] था,
[00:17:52] sought solutions
[00:17:55] to those problems with which
[00:17:59] others had already compromised.
[00:18:03] And
[00:18:06] therefore, in
[00:18:09] life, maintain
[00:18:11] curiosity, keep your learning instinct
[00:18:15] alive,
[00:18:18] keep it awakened. Maintain
[00:18:21] consciousness. The things that are accepted
[00:18:24] without
[00:18:27] thinking, just
[00:18:31] examine them. Question
[00:18:34] them. But don't
[00:18:37] just ask questions.
[00:18:40] Also have
[00:18:42] the courage
[00:18:44] to find their solutions.
[00:18:48] This thinking
[00:18:51] will create
[00:18:54] your distinct identity.
[00:18:57] Campus life
[00:19:01] जीवन
[00:19:04] and life outside campus,
[00:19:08] there is a very big difference
[00:19:12] between these two.
[00:19:13] है,
[00:19:18] In IIT exams, there is a syllabus,
[00:19:20] है,
[00:19:22] but in the exam of life, everything
[00:19:25] is out of syllabus.
[00:19:28] है,
[00:19:35] In our country, the cockroach movement
[00:19:37] lasted for 35 days. There were many slogans, big celebrities
[00:19:41] and leaders participated in this movement, and they wanted big changes
[00:19:44] to happen in the country, but this movement, which started with paper leaks,
[00:19:48] was limited to the issue of the resignation
[00:19:52] of India's Education Minister. In this entire movement,
[00:19:55] many things were said against India and Prime Minister Modi,
[00:19:59] and there was disinformation, but no one talked about what changes
[00:20:02] should be made in our country's examination system.
[00:20:06] Today we will decode
[00:20:09] the bitter truth of India's examination system for you,
[00:20:13] and the biggest truth is this picture
[00:20:16] of how millions of students in India every
[00:20:20] year go through private schools, tuition
[00:20:23] classes, coaching centers, and online
[00:20:26] courses to reach competitive
[00:20:30] exams. Today, this is the situation
[00:20:33] of our country that we have told you. The entire country is giving exams.
[00:20:36] Millions of students are sitting in exams
[00:20:40] in every corner of the country. You will feel that all the youth
[00:20:44] of the country are doing the same thing. When goods come out of this factory,
[00:20:47] successful competitors emerge from this factory. But this factory costs a lot of money.
[00:20:51] In India,
[00:20:53] every
[00:20:56] year, millions of our country's youth take competitive exams,
[00:20:59] but have you ever wondered what the real purpose of these exams
[00:21:03] is? Do these exams select
[00:21:07] the best student? Do they select the most qualified student?
[00:21:11] the most qualified students for the country?
[00:21:14] Or is it to make millions of youth realize
[00:21:18] that they are not qualified? That they are rejected?
[00:21:22] That is, these exams focus more on weeding out
[00:21:26] than on testing merit. The primary purpose of these exams
[00:21:29] is to weed out. In the beginning, weed out 98 out of 100 people.
[00:21:32] They are all useless. The Union
[00:21:35] Public Service Commission, or UPSC, is considered the biggest exam
[00:21:39] in our country, the most prestigious exam, where entry into civil services
[00:21:43] happens. IAS, IPS, IFS are made
[00:21:47] by passing this exam. In the year 2025,
[00:21:50] 576 thousand students
[00:21:53] appeared for the UPSC exam. Consider it almost 5.75 lakh,
[00:21:56] out of which only 14,161
[00:22:00] students qualified for the written, i.e., main examination,
[00:22:04] while only 2,736
[00:22:07] students reached the interview stage. The success rate of UPSC
[00:22:11] is 0.17%.
[00:22:14] Please remember this.
[00:22:18] रखिएगा
[00:22:20] The success rate is 17% for the UPSC exam, meaning
[00:22:24] not even half a percent of people pass.
[00:22:28] If we compare the students who appeared for the interview in this exam,
[00:22:31] 35% students were successful, and in the interview too,
[00:22:35] 65% of students were eliminated, they failed,
[00:22:37] they were rejected. But were the students who failed
[00:22:41] really unqualified?
[00:22:44] Was there really any lack in their merit, any lack in their hard work,
[00:22:48] any lack in their effort? Were there so few seats
[00:22:51] that they had no chance of succeeding?
[00:22:54] So these few seats
[00:22:57] also cause a lot of injustice. In our country,
[00:23:01] competitive exams have now become less of a merit test
[00:23:04] and more of an elimination machine.
[00:23:08] The future of students is decided by even one mark, and even
[00:23:11] a loss of half a mark can change your entire life,
[00:23:15] your entire career. Even with half a mark less, the question is
[00:23:19] whether such a fine line can exist between talent and
[00:23:22] incompetence. Can you decide with just
[00:23:25] half a mark that this student is talented
[00:23:29] and this student is useless? Every year,
[00:23:32] millions of youth take UPSC, SSC, Railway,
[00:23:35] Banking, State Public Service Commission, NEET, etc.
[00:23:39] Many jobs, but only one can get it. So 99 candidates
[00:23:43] will be out anyway. This
[00:23:46] does not mean that the other 99 people had no ability.
[00:23:50] The other 99 people do not have merit, do not have hard work, do not have capability.
[00:23:53] It only means that the opportunities
[00:23:57] are very limited, jobs are very
[00:24:00] limited, and from here a very big industry
[00:24:03] stands up, where
[00:24:07] demand is very high and supply is very low.
[00:24:11] Today, competitive exams are not just about studying, but have become
[00:24:14] a very big business. Today, every candidate
[00:24:18] wants to become a customer of the success rate
[00:24:22] by doing coaching, test series, and online courses, and who knows what else.
[00:24:25] They want to see their name in the list of successful
[00:24:28] candidates.
[00:24:32] The more competition there is, the more business there will be,
[00:24:36] the more money will be earned. That means education no longer remains
[00:24:39] just a learning process, but becomes an expensive
[00:24:42] economic race, which is in our country. When there will be millions of candidates
[00:24:46] and only a few thousand seats, then the price of a question
[00:24:49] paper will go into crores of rupees. That's why question papers are leaked.
[00:24:53] In such a situation, big gangs who leak question papers,
[00:24:56] gangs who facilitate cheating, fake
[00:25:00] candidates, and the game of corruption begin. In our country,
[00:25:03] the word merit is used for both successful
[00:25:08] The one who succeeded has merit,
[00:25:11] and the one who failed does not have merit.
[00:25:15] In our country, this idea of merit is based on the system
[00:25:19] and thinking of the British government 100 years
[00:25:22] ago. In 1835, British
[00:25:26] उनकी सोच पर आधारित है, वर्ष 1835 में ब्रिटेन
[00:25:30] historian and politician Lord
[00:25:33] Macaulay made several recommendations
[00:25:36] for reforming India's education system. All these are his
[00:25:40] ideas. Lord Macaulay had said that we need to
[00:25:43] create a class in India that is Indian in blood
[00:25:47] and class, Indian in identity by blood,
[00:25:51] but its interests, its moral
[00:25:54] ideals, and its intellect should be like the British.
[00:25:57] They should think like the British.
[00:26:01] is often used for them, meaning a sahib
[00:26:05] whose skin color is brown, but thinks like the British.
[00:26:08] Lord Macaulay's idea was that English is necessary
[00:26:12] to connect the people of India with modern knowledge, and
[00:26:16] his policy changed the direction of the education system,
[00:26:20] which affected our country's examination system and for the first time, this
[00:26:24] merit-based system came, in which 99% of our
[00:26:29] by saying that they do not have merit. On Macaulay's recommendation,
[00:26:32] the Civil Services Commission was established in our country
[00:26:36] in 1854, which after independence
[00:26:39] became known as UPSC. Its name was kept UPSC.
[00:26:43] In the year 1864,
[00:26:46] Rabindranath Tagore's elder brother Satyendranath Tagore was the first
[00:26:50] Indian to pass this exam. At that time,
[00:26:53] people in India had to go to London to take the exam
[00:26:57] and study European subjects. So imagine, in that era,
[00:27:00] in that century, in the period of 1864, 65, 70,
[00:27:03] how many people from India
[00:27:07] could go to London
[00:27:10] who could study European subjects. Even today, in most exams
[00:27:14] in our country, including UPSC,
[00:27:17] emphasis is placed on the same
[00:27:21] Now there is a need to change this examination system.
[00:27:24] Small fine-tuning will not do anything.
[00:27:27] There is a need to bring a new fundamental
[00:27:31] change. Its entire structure, the thinking behind it,
[00:27:35] needs to be changed. Students whose future changes forever
[00:27:40] or one mark should also get a chance, because
[00:27:44] they do not lack merit. One student has 99%,
[00:27:47] another student has 99%, so do
[00:27:51] you think there is a big difference between them? And for this,
[00:27:55] today we want to give three suggestions to the country.
[00:27:58] First, there should be a National Talent Pool in our country.
[00:28:02] Its creation should happen. In this, those candidates who were slightly behind
[00:28:06] the cutoff percentage should be kept for at least three or
[00:28:09] five years. Instead of conducting new exams,
[00:28:13] these students should be recruited into government departments,
[00:28:16] in various state governments, in jobs,
[00:28:20] instead of having countless exams for different departments,
[00:28:24] different state governments every time. You should create a National
[00:28:27] Talent Pool across the country. You might have seen that
[00:28:30] in our country, we also have a talent pool for cricket.
[00:28:34] Today, in our country, there are at least 40-50
[00:28:37] contracted players from BCCI, from whom we select 11
[00:28:41] and then keep rotating them. Similarly, a talent
[00:28:45] pool of youth and students
[00:28:48] should exist in our country, saying that these are our brightest
[00:28:51] talents, this is the talent pool of students.
[00:28:54] Second, instead of merit,
[00:28:58] instead of cutoff percentages, a merit band
[00:29:01] system should be implemented. For example,
[00:29:05] the abilities of those who score 95% to 100%
[00:29:08] marks are almost the same. You cannot say that a child
[00:29:11] who scored 98% is less talented
[00:29:15] and a child with 99% is more talented.
[00:29:18] Therefore, they should be placed in the same category.
[00:29:21] We can create different categories like 95 to 100%,
[00:29:24] 90 to 95%, 85 to 90%,
[00:29:28] and place them in a merit band. Then, based on the needs of different departments,
[00:29:32] their skill tests,
[00:29:35] and interviews, students should be selected from this merit
[00:29:39] band. And thirdly, the examination calendar
[00:29:43] should be implemented on time. For example,
[00:29:47] in our country, most exams often get delayed, and
[00:29:50] results can take months, sometimes even years. Especially in exams held by state governments.
[00:29:54] Now, for every recruitment, there should also be a law for this.
[00:29:58] These are two-three things that we want to put before the people of the country,
[00:30:02] before the students, before the governments, today.
[00:30:06] Where did competitive exams for government jobs
[00:30:08] first start? They started in China.
[00:30:12] In China, the competitive examination
[00:30:16] system started in the seventh century, where officials were selected
[00:30:19] based on written exams, not on birth or recommendation.
[00:30:23] This system has been going on in China for about 1300 years.
[00:30:27] After this, in the 18th and
[00:30:30] 19th centuries, other countries also started adopting
[00:30:34] a merit-based recruitment system. Germany started conducting exams
[00:30:38] for high administrative positions in 1743,
[00:30:41] while France, after the revolution of 1789,
[00:30:45] made its government The principle of appointment based on merit
[00:30:49] for positions was adopted. For a long time in Britain,
[00:30:53] government jobs were only available through recommendations. But then,
[00:30:56] in 1855, the Civil
[00:30:59] Service Commission was formed, and in 1870,
[00:31:03] competitive examinations were made mandatory for most
[00:31:06] government jobs. It's
[00:31:10] good to conduct examinations.
[00:31:12] It's good to have competition. But in an exam where you
[00:31:16] know that only half a percent of children will succeed, what will you do with the remaining
[00:31:20] 99.5% students? Today,
[00:31:23] you also have to think about
[00:31:27] this. This protest at Jantar Mantar has actually taught the country a lot.
[00:31:30] It has also taught politicians a lot, and
[00:31:34] a lot is changing after this. After this
[00:31:37] protest, the biggest challenge for political parties
[00:31:41] is whether the reels that are seen on Instagram
[00:31:44] today will also translate
[00:31:48] into votes tomorrow.
[00:31:50] These Gen Z children, when they become voters, who
[00:31:54] will they vote for? In the year
[00:31:57] 2029, in the next Lok Sabha elections,
[00:32:00] Gen Z will emerge as the biggest
[00:32:03] vote bank. Gen Z's share of total
[00:32:07] voters will be between 29 and 33%. This is a very
[00:32:10] large chunk, and the number of Gen Z
[00:32:14] in the next election will be approximately 38 crores.
[00:32:17] If 38 crore people wish, they can overturn the
[00:32:20] results of any election. Every third
[00:32:24] voter will be Gen Z. In
[00:32:28] the next Lok Sabha elections, there will be approximately 5 to 6 crore
[00:32:32] new voters, and all of them will be
[00:32:35] Gen Z. Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Rajasthan,
[00:32:39] and Madhya Pradesh are the states with the most Gen Z voters,
[00:32:42] and here, 31.5 to 37%
[00:32:45] Gen Z voters will be present. A total
[00:32:49] of 188 Lok Sabha seats are in these states
[00:32:53] alone, which you are seeing on your screen. And here, you can see
[00:32:56] that Gen Z will account for approximately 32 to 37%
[00:33:00] of the total voters. Gen Z voters
[00:33:03] will have a direct impact on 188 Lok Sabha seats.
[00:33:06] Only three large states in the country - Kerala,
[00:33:09] Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh - have
[00:33:13] Gen Z voters with a population of 22
[00:33:17] to 25%. Even here,
[00:33:20] there are 84 Lok Sabha seats in these states. Therefore,
[00:33:24] the 2029 election will not
[00:33:27] just be fought between political parties, but rather
[00:33:31] it will be a contest between social media algorithms,
[00:33:34] ideologies circulating on social media,
[00:33:37] Instagram, and EVMs. Gen Z
[00:33:40] is not a prisoner of any fixed ideology.
[00:33:43] They don't have a fixed ideology. They don't think like BJP
[00:33:47] or Congress. That means this generation
[00:33:51] is neither left, nor left-winger, nor right-winger. They are not in any
[00:33:54] camp. They don't have any fixed
[00:33:58] ideology. They determine their votes
[00:34:02] based on emotions, issues, and immediate experience.
[00:34:05] Gen Z is not
[00:34:09] a permanent vote bank of any party, any ideology, any state, or any region.
[00:34:13] They are not a permanent vote bank of any leader.
[00:34:15] Rather, they are floating voters. They are sitting on the border line.
[00:34:18] They can go anywhere. Earlier, the vote bank in India
[00:34:21] was formed on the basis of caste,
[00:34:24] religion, and regional identity. But now
[00:34:28] social media has created a new identity, and that is
[00:34:31] digital identity.
[00:34:34] And what is digital identity? Digital identity
[00:34:37] for today's youth is not coming from their caste,
[00:34:41] not from their region, not from their religion.
[00:34:45] Digital identity is coming from what kind of content they create,
[00:34:48] what they think, what they think about life,
[00:34:52] what their dreams are, and who their followers are, and who
[00:34:56] they follow. This is the new caste. Gen Z's
[00:35:00] political views may be strong, but their
[00:35:04] unity is weak. All these people
[00:35:07] live in different information networks, and it is not necessary that they
[00:35:11] adopt the political ideology of their parents.
[00:35:15] In earlier times, children often liked the same party,
[00:35:18] voted for the same party, which their parents liked
[00:35:22] or voted for.
[00:35:25] You may remember, you will find many families who will say that we have been
[00:35:28] voting for Congress for three generations, four generations. You will find families who will say that we have been voting
[00:35:32] for BJP generation after generation. Our family
[00:35:35] is a traditional voter of BJP.
[00:35:39] Every generation votes for
[00:35:42] And at that time, the head of the family
[00:35:46] was usually the father, and what the head of the family
[00:35:49] said, women, children,
[00:35:53] youth, all those people did what the head
[00:35:56] said. That is, what
[00:35:59] the father said or what the grandfather said. But this Gen Z
[00:36:03] is different. This is the biggest change in Indian politics,
[00:36:06] which you will see in the upcoming elections. They form their
[00:36:10] political ideology by looking at social media, YouTube,
[00:36:13] Instagram, and the internet,
[00:36:16] not by listening to speeches of leaders. The biggest
[00:36:19] damage of the recent Gen Z movement was to the government
[00:36:23] or to the opposition. This is also a very big debate.
[00:36:25] Therefore, whether it is BJP
[00:36:29] or Congress, or all other parties or their leaders,
[00:36:32] they will have to see that now in the upcoming elections,
[00:36:36] perhaps politics is also going to change.
[00:36:39] It is possible that the biggest battleground of Indian politics
[00:36:43] may become Instagram. Now
[00:36:47] look, after this movement, what happened is that the opposition
[00:36:50] is very happy. Opposition leaders are very happy that see,
[00:36:54] these students have made the government bow down.
[00:36:59] Opposition leaders are considering this movement as the biggest
[00:37:03] proof of increasing anger against the government in the country, and they feel
[00:37:06] that the anger of the youth will automatically convert into votes
[00:37:10] for opposition parties. They feel that they will get direct benefit
[00:37:14] from this. But the real question is whether the opposition will be able to convert
[00:37:18] Gen Z's anger into votes, and this is also the biggest weakness
[00:37:21] of the opposition today. If opposition
[00:37:25] parties and their leaders truly had so much information
[00:37:28] about public discontent, then why did
[00:37:32] they not associate it with themselves? All these people whom they think
[00:37:36] were angry with the government, why did this anger
[00:37:40] of the youth
[00:37:43] Congress? Why did all these opposition leaders
[00:37:48] strategy together with parties like Samajwadi Party, Trinamool Congress, or
[00:37:52] DMK? But this time its leadership
[00:37:55] was not in the hands of any leader. Its leadership was completely
[00:37:59] scattered. There was dissatisfaction, but that dissatisfaction
[00:38:03] had no political direction. Therefore, it is not necessary that
[00:38:06] opposition leaders will benefit from the anger of the youth.
[00:38:10] Rahul Gandhi will benefit, other leaders will benefit,
[00:38:13] Akhilesh Yadav will benefit, because in politics, every
[00:38:17] voter looks for a strong alternative, and
[00:38:21] at this time, the people of this country are not seeing
[00:38:24] opposition parties as a strong opposition alternative. Why?
[00:38:28] I will tell you. There are approximately three years
[00:38:31] left until the next Lok Sabha elections, and in these three years, many
[00:38:35] such issues will arise that will affect the thoughts
[00:38:38] of Gen Z. Therefore, political parties will now have to
[00:38:42] change their election campaign methods. Until now, election campaigns
[00:38:46] involved large rallies, road shows, crowds of thousands of workers
[00:38:49] gathered by paying money in buses,
[00:38:53] long speeches, and if there was a movement
[00:38:57] or protest after the election campaign, slogans of "Down with" and "Death to"
[00:39:01] were raised. These are old-fashioned things. Now the method of election campaign
[00:39:04] is slowly changing. In the coming time, not just the crowd gathered in the field,
[00:39:08] but the atmosphere created on the mobile phone screen will decide
[00:39:11] the course of the election, and social media,
[00:39:15] reels, and algorithms will also become a very
[00:39:18] important part of electoral strategy.
[00:39:54] Punjab National Bank, the name you can bank upon.
[00:40:03] After the Jantar Mantar movement, there is a lot of buzz about Gen Z across the country.
[00:40:07] Suddenly, everyone has started talking about Gen Z.
[00:40:11] But the participation of Gen Z in our country's politics
[00:40:14] is very low. Their number is 38
[00:40:18] crores, but how many people in our country's politics are from
[00:40:22] Gen Z, even though we have the largest
[00:40:25] Gen Z population in the world? Those born between
[00:40:28] 1997 and 2012
[00:40:32] are called Gen Z, and today their age
[00:40:36] is between 14 and 29 years.
[00:40:39] Now look at this. At this time, the population
[00:40:43] of people between 14 and 29 years
[00:40:47] in our country is 38 crores,
[00:40:49] and this is 26% of the country's population.
[00:40:53] 26% of our population is from
[00:40:55] Gen Z, aged 14
[00:40:58] to 29 years. Today, Gen Z
[00:41:01] is not just working, but they are creating startups,
[00:41:05] running their own businesses, making new
[00:41:08] inventions in new technologies,
[00:41:12] entering sports, entering media.
[00:41:15] You will see Gen Z everywhere. Gen Z
[00:41:18] are artists, Gen Z are actors, Gen Z
[00:41:22] are running their own startup companies. Gen Z
[00:41:25] is everywhere, dominating everywhere. But what is the share of Gen Z
[00:41:29] in the country's Parliament and state assemblies
[00:41:33] in our country? Very negligible.
[00:41:36] At this time, out of 540 MPs in the Lok Sabha,
[00:41:40] only six MPs are from Gen Z. Only
[00:41:43] six. In 2024,
[00:41:47] 98 Gen Z candidates contested elections. Only
[00:41:50] 98 across the country. But only six of them won.
[00:41:54] And out of these, five MPs come from political
[00:41:57] families. That is, the young MPs in our country
[00:42:01] who are below 29 years are already very few,
[00:42:05] only six, and out of these six, five
[00:42:08] are from political families, meaning they are there
[00:42:12] because they were born in big families and their parents
[00:42:15] have made them MPs and sent them here
[00:42:19] by winning the Lok Sabha election. Only one
[00:42:22] MP, only one MP in our entire Lok Sabha
[00:42:26] is from Gen Z and is not from a political family.
[00:42:30] Only one. Currently, there are a total
[00:42:33] of 4123 MLAs in the country, and out of these, only 20
[00:42:37] MLAs are below 29 years old,
[00:42:40] i.e., Gen Z. And out of these 20, eight
[00:42:43] MLAs come from big political families whose
[00:42:46] parents or other family members are already in politics.
[00:42:50] Now let me tell you
[00:42:53] in the Lok Sabha, because many people also say that
[00:42:57] लोकसभा में प्रदर्शन कैसा रहा क्योंकि बहुत सारे लोग यह भी कहते हैं कि भाई
[00:43:00] we have now.
[00:43:04] Their performance is
[00:43:06] as follows: The average attendance of these MPs so far is
[00:43:10] 89%, which I would say is impressive, very good.
[00:43:14] 89% attendance. They have asked an average of
[00:43:17] 93 questions and participated in about 19
[00:43:21] debates in the Lok Sabha. Congress MP Sanjana
[00:43:24] Jatav from Bharatpur, Rajasthan, has
[00:43:26] 100% attendance in the Lok Sabha.
[00:43:30] Shambhavi Chaudhary, who comes from a political family in Bihar, asked the
[00:43:33] most questions, 207. The family background of Gen Z MLAs and
[00:43:37] MPs shows that the path to reaching Parliament or the Assembly
[00:43:40] still passes through political legacy.
[00:43:44] However, the performance of those who have come
[00:43:48] is decent. And
[00:43:51] now
[00:44:05] fees, everything is done.
[00:44:08] Budget is made. Yes,
[00:44:11] 5 thousand saved. Should I buy a new sari? No,
[00:44:15] you bought one last month. Make a budget
[00:44:18] first, then save small savings
[00:44:21] in the bank, and watch your money grow.
[00:44:25] Good. Go, brother. RBI says financial wisdom
[00:44:29] is a prosperous
[00:44:32] woman.
[00:44:33] What is the effect on politics?
[00:44:39] What is the effect on language? What is the effect on families?
[00:44:42] You have seen, Gen Z has also left a very deep impact
[00:44:46] on society. So
[00:44:49] not just politics, Gen Z has also changed
[00:44:52] the ways of marriage. Now see a new
[00:44:55] change that has come in our society. Now, before marriage, not
[00:44:59] an astrologer, but a detective is needed.
[00:45:02] Now, for whom to marry, not relatives,
[00:45:06] but detectives are consulted.
[00:45:09] Detective agencies are consulted. Earlier, before marriage, horoscopes were checked.
[00:45:13] Now, social media accounts like Instagram and Facebook
[00:45:17] are checked. In our country, the trend
[00:45:20] of getting a background check done by a private detective
[00:45:24] before marriage is now increasing very rapidly, and this
[00:45:27] can be considered a very big impact of the Ketan Agarwal murder in Pune.
[00:45:31] You may remember, about a month and a half ago, 20-year-old Siya
[00:45:35] Goyal, along with her 22-year-old boyfriend, murdered
[00:45:39] her 26-year-old fiance Ketan Agarwal in Pune.
[00:45:42] This incident broke familial trust in marriage.
[00:45:46] Now no family wants to take any risk
[00:45:50] before marriage. Every family is afraid
[00:45:53] that the family, the boy or girl with whom they have arranged their child's
[00:45:57] marriage, will not do the same to them. If the same thing happens to them,
[00:46:01] what will happen? So it's better to find out in advance.
[00:46:05] Therefore, now a large number of families want to get all kinds of checks
[00:46:08] before marriage through
[00:46:12] private detectives. That is, what kind of boy or girl
[00:46:16] it is. Earlier, relatives used to tell, but now
[00:46:20] detectives are doing this work. This may sound like a joke,
[00:46:23] but this is the new changing reality of marriage in our country.
[00:46:27] Earlier, the to-do list for marriage,
[00:46:30] the checklist, included things like booking
[00:46:34] a banquet hall, booking catering,
[00:46:38] booking a band, booking a photographer. Now people also do
[00:46:42] a lot of other things, make videos. A lot of things happen.
[00:46:45] Event management people also come now. But now it is possible that another name
[00:46:48] may be added to that list. And that is private
[00:46:52] detective. Book a photographer. Now people do a lot of other things,
[00:46:56] make videos. A lot of things happen. Event management people also come now.
[00:47:00] But now it is possible that another name may be added to that list.
[00:47:03] And that is private detective. The family will say before marriage
[00:47:07] where is the detective agency's report? Until the report comes,
[00:47:11] they will not proceed with the marriage. That is, along with the horoscope,
[00:47:14] a background
[00:47:18] before marriage. The biggest thing is that earlier, investigations were only done in arranged
[00:47:21] marriages, but now even in love marriages,
[00:47:25] families are getting the background verification
[00:47:28] of the boy or girl done. So
[00:47:32] is this just caution or increasing
[00:47:35] distrust in our relationships? Usually, a private
[00:47:38] detective agency charges about one lakh to five
[00:47:41] lakh rupees for a background check
[00:47:45] before marriage. This investigation
[00:47:48] is completed in 15 to 20 days. It includes
[00:47:51] social media accounts, bank account
[00:47:55] records, old past relationships, your ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends,
[00:47:58] employment records, how much debt you have
[00:48:01] taken, how much debt the family has, where loans have been taken from,
[00:48:05] all this is investigated. Criminal
[00:48:08] records, whether the boy or girl has a drug habit,
[00:48:11] how the boy or girl behaves.
[00:48:14] Where the boy or girl usually
[00:48:18] goes, which clubs they go to.
[00:48:21] Which places they go to, if they go to any dance bar, that is,
[00:48:25] instead of trust, verification has started to take over.
[00:48:28] In the last few decades, cases of background checks before marriage
[00:48:32] have increased almost 10 times. Now, background checks before marriage
[00:48:36] account for almost 50 to 60%
[00:48:40] of the business of many private detective companies.
[00:48:43] In today's digital age, a person has two identities. One
[00:48:47] that is visible to society, which anyone can see, and the other
[00:48:51] that is hidden in your mobile phone, hidden inside your social media
[00:48:54] account. And this is the reason why families
[00:48:58] now want to confirm facts instead of relying
[00:49:01] on meetings or the opinions of relatives. The biggest reason for this change
[00:49:05] is not curiosity but fear.
[00:49:08] In the last few years, many cases of fraud, domestic violence, and
[00:49:12] murder after marriage have come to light in our country. You may remember that last
[00:49:16] year, a girl named Sonam Raghuvanshi murdered her husband Raja Raghuvanshi
[00:49:20] during their honeymoon in Meghalaya.
[00:49:22] Before this, many such cases have come up.
[00:49:26] You may remember another case in which a wife killed her husband
[00:49:30] and put the body parts in a blue drum.
[00:49:34] In our society, earlier, marriage bureaus
[00:49:38] or online matrimonial websites were very popular. Similarly,
[00:49:41] now pre-marital verification services are becoming increasingly popular.
[00:49:45] Therefore, it is possible that in the coming years, background checks before marriage
[00:49:48] will become as common as getting a passport
[00:49:52] or police verification seems common to you today.
[00:49:56] Along with your Aadhaar card,
[00:49:59] a detective agency's verification report before marriage.
[00:50:03] So this is a very big change coming in our country.
[00:50:06] Now, just meeting will not be enough. Earlier, the boy's family used to go
[00:50:10] to the girl's house. The girl would come, serve tea,
[00:50:14] samosas, and some other food items, and the girl's family would say
[00:50:18] that our daughter made all this food. And other things also happened.
[00:50:25] Our daughter has these qualities. The boy's family would say, our son has these
[00:50:29] qualities, and marriages used to happen with the help of relatives.
[00:50:32] You must have seen countless such scenes in movies,
[00:50:36] but now all this is ending.
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