In Focus-Parley | Should children be involved in political campaigning?
In Focus by The Hindu

In Focus-Parley | Should children be involved in political campaigning?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 22, 202635 min
  • Politics

Tamil Nadu recently went through a game-changing election that threw up a surprise. The TVK won largely on the strength of its appeal among young people; the younger the people were greater was their enthusiasm for the TVK and Vijay, the current chief minister. Many older voters were telling journalists that their sons, daughters and grandchildren were telling them to vote for Vijay. Recently, a DMK candidate who lost in Salem North went to court, arguing that Vijay had appealed to children to persuade their parents to vote for the TVK, and that this was wrong. The H...

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This is In Focus, the Hindu's current affairs podcast. Recently Tamil Nadu went through a game-changing election. It threw up a surprise. The TVK won the election based largely on appeal to young people. Younger people drove the change that brought the current party into power.

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But there were some complaints or reporters were going to the field. They actually saw that the younger they were, the more enthusiastic they were for TBK and for Vijay. One of the things that many older people were saying was that the younger people in

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their family were telling them to vote for Vijay, even though they may have been implaning towards the traditional parties. And some of them were even saying there was a complaint. I heard a complaint for instance in a village of Virudhurnagar that a man in his 60s was

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