Brut visited Delhi’s Ramjas College to speak to students about their expectations from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Here is what they said…
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00:00CAA has nothing to do with taking away any person's citizenship.
00:05What is the government doing with CAA?
00:06If everyone gets citizenship before 2024, before the elections,
00:09then they will become voters.
00:10We want Modi ji to come again from this election.
00:12Shri Narendra Modi, rather than giving speeches,
00:15I think it's more important to help more pro-rest country.
00:18After 10 years, I don't think India will be a developed country yet.
00:23Lots of conflicts that will happen in the next 10 years.
00:25Why do you think that?
00:27Because I think we have been fighting over unnecessary things in this present time.
00:33What are the unnecessary things you are talking about?
00:36The CAA, I mean the CAA bill amendment that happened.
00:39We are at Delhi University's Ramjas College,
00:42one of the three founding colleges of the institution.
00:45Back in 1942, some students of this college joined the freedom struggle
00:48during the Quit India movement, which resulted in their arrest.
00:52It is also believed that the college hostelers sheltered Chandrashekhar Azad
00:55when he was absconding from the British government.
00:58Today, Brood is here to speak to students about what they want from the 2024 General Elections.
01:03Join us as we hear from these young minds.
01:06Let's go.
01:11Do you mind if we record your answers?
01:12Sure, sure, sure.
01:13What do you want from this 2024 General Elections?
01:16The middle class people are suffering and that is where the government lacks
01:20and it should work on.
01:21So there should be policies on the middle class people
01:24and focused and implemented also.
01:27What kind of policies?
01:28Can you please elaborate on the same?
01:30Proper facilities given to each and everyone.
01:33What kind of facilities?
01:34Facilities like education.
01:36In the villages, people are not getting proper education.
01:40If I am from Jaipur and I am comparing myself to a kid from Churu
01:43or some lower districts of Rajasthan, I can see the difference.
01:47I can see the difference in the government school I have studied
01:49and the government school they have studied.
01:51So this is where the middle class or the people who are
01:55below some good level of income are suffering.
01:59It should focus on retaining the youth in the country.
02:02Like this term brain drain.
02:04People are getting educated in this country.
02:05My sister is an IITian.
02:07She wants to go abroad. Why?
02:09Because opportunities are less here.
02:11Even when they have a recession, my sister knows
02:14she'll earn abroad more than here in India.
02:17Why?
02:18We can say reservation and other stuff.
02:21We cannot singularly criticise reservation.
02:23But it is.
02:24We have less creativity, innovation and opportunities here in India.
02:28So the government can create more opportunities.
02:32In the whole world, India's name is more in comparison to the palace.
02:36People don't just know us for our cultural identity or diversity.
02:40We are also known for our technical achievements.
02:44S.J. Sankar sir, the way he is representing our country
02:48is like a Hanuman.
02:53The government has been saying for years
02:55that they will end the train batting in 10 years.
02:57They will end it in 5 years.
02:58They will end it in 4 years.
03:00But the batting will never end.
03:02The government should focus on employment.
03:04Because if there is no employment,
03:06there is no employment.
03:07Because employment is the government's guarantee.
03:10It is a guarantee that we will be able to live our lives.
03:14The government says, we have planned for this.
03:17But if a person is earning Rs.500 a day, that's fine.
03:22But if he earns Rs.15,000 a month, that's not much.
03:26But if you look at the inflation rate,
03:30it is more than 5%.
03:31If you look at it that way, even Rs.500 is less.
03:34The government should focus on that.
03:35I still think that women in general are not treated equally.
03:41I mean, we have been fighting for equality for a long time.
03:44But I still think that there is a lot of discrimination going on.
03:48Discrimination where?
03:49Discrimination in the work fields, for example.
03:51There have been a lot of times where, for example, in labour work,
03:55where women have been told that you can't do this because you are a woman.
04:01And there has been a lot of discrimination in the paying also.
04:05I have seen that.
04:06So that's why I feel like that is still going on.
04:09And girls are still scared to walk alone at night.
04:14That should not happen.
04:15We want Modi to come back from this election.
04:17Because Modi has done the work of making the country a Hindu nation.
04:21You can see how the roads were before.
04:23How the roads were in the Congress government.
04:24And how they are now.
04:26You can see the change between the students.
04:27Come to college, come to the college campus.
04:30You can see how clean it is in the college campuses.
04:33The Prime Minister of India, that is Shri Narendra Modi,
04:36I think he should really help as much as press conferences as it can be.
04:42Because press conferences are a means to have a true and fair communication with your people.
04:51The people who voted him right.
04:53As per the records, there are very, very, very less.
04:57Rather than giving speeches, I think it's more important to have more press conferences.
05:01So in a way, it will be able to provide citizens what they want to hear.
05:06Where do you see India in the next 10 years?
05:13After 10 years, I don't think India will be a developed country yet, to be honest.
05:19Because we have been developing for a long time.
05:22We have been developing since, I don't know, 50-60 years.
05:25And we have not still developed yet.
05:27I think there will be lots of, you know, lots of political issues.
05:33Lots of conflicts that will happen in the next 10 years.
05:35Why do you think that?
05:37Because I think we have been fighting over unnecessary things in this present time.
05:43What are the unnecessary things you're talking about?
05:46The CA, I mean, the CA bill amendment that happened, that is going on right now.
05:51I don't know if it's unnecessary, but the people are going into religion over this thing.
05:56They're not, I mean, they're deviating from whatever their initial intentions were.
06:01And then they're blaming it on religion.
06:03The Centre has implemented the Citizenship Amendment Act.
06:06What are your views on that?
06:07I have just one question that the timing of rolling out it just before the Lok Sabha elections.
06:13That why it has been enacted and taken into action at this moment.
06:19Why not earlier?
06:20Because the law was, the law became an act in 2019.
06:24So why did it take four years, why did it take four years to enact it now?
06:28I'd rather not say anything about CA because I have not made my mind over it.
06:33But I do think like almost what I've read until now, I feel it is a little discriminatory
06:38and violating some rules of the constitution.
06:40Why do you think it's discriminatory?
06:42It is discriminatory against the Muslim people, Muslim community, for some aspect they are
06:48neglecting their rights and they are limiting their rights somewhere, somewhere.
06:52I am not very clear about what it is about, but this is what I've read in the editorials
06:57and I've understood with what I've read.
07:57Even they accepted our country instead of what they want.