DAYS OF THE YOUNG - WHO ARE THE YOUNG MPs?
The only thing of serious consequence in the Congress plenary was the demand to give the youngsters their due role in party and government - read that as give Rahul Gandhi his due role. Rahul Gandhi is certainly not the youngest of them but given the composition of the Indian Cabinet where the Health Minister Dr. Ramdoss at 38 is the youngest minister, he is young enough. Both the youngish looking Maran and Selja are past forty while the more youngish looking Chidambaram is past sixty with many of them on the wrong side of seventy. The Congress has ten members in Lok Sabha who are less than forty, but not one of them is a minister but they are all big names with the youngest of them Deepender Singh Hooda, sachin Pilot and Milind Deora being less than thirty. The other big names with small ages below forty are Priya Dutt at 39, Rahul Gandhi at 36, Navin Jindal at 36, Jitin Prasad at 33, Jyothiraditya Scindia at 35 and some small names likes Tejeshwini at 39 and Balashowry at 38. It will be certainly a good idea to consider some of these youngsters for Cabinet posts instead of some of those fossilized old men we have in the Cabinet. If the very old can mess up the country, shouldn't the youngsters be given a chance?