Jobs please! What young voters want from politicians before 2019 polls

Jobs please! What young voters want from politicians before 2019 polls Employment is the prime concern of young Indians, according to a 2016 survey of more than 6,100 respondents by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

Politics News : India’s Gen Z, a key swing constituency in the 2019 general elections, has a simple message for politicians: more jobs, please.

As many as 130 million first-time voters — more than the population of Japan — will go to the polls due by May. A key issue for this electorate is Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s failure to deliver on his promise of creating 10 million jobs a year — a pledge that won him the hearts of India’s youth in the 2014 election.

Yet with barely eight months to go to national polls, voters who believe job creation is Modi’s biggest failure have risen to 29 per cent from 22 per cent in January 2018, the Mood of the Nation survey by India Today found.

“The youth will certainly be a key demographic,” said Harsh Pant, professor of International Relations at King’s College in London. “While the issue of jobs may hurt Modi in the coming elections, it is also a reality he remains hugely popular with the youth compared to any other politician.”

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