What the young people want.

A survey among young voters in India showed that, "a significant section of both BJP-leaning and non- BJP-leaning youth felt that unemployment, women's safety, and corruption were among the biggest area of concern currently", wrote Kwatra and Bhattacharya. The survey also showed that, "Roughly half of India's urban millennials support the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while only a sixth favor the principal opposition party, Congress." Support for the BJP was 62% among Hindus and only 21% among non-Hindus. Family, friends, work and religion are equally important to both BJP and non-BJP supporters. BJP-leaning youth are slightly more conservative when it comes to gender roles and much more conservative when it comes to eating meat, especially beef. Paradoxically, they are slightly more liberal when it comes to inter-caste or inter-religious marriage. Only Hindus have reservations about eating beef, other religions don't. So it is curious that BJP-leaning youth are against eating beef but not against marrying into other religions. While older people are against the government running businesses, "An overwhelming majority of millennials and post-millennials cutting across political divide want governments to run businesses in strategic sectors such as defence and to create more jobs in the public sector." That is because there is high unemployment and, even more worrying, the labor force participation rate, which is the proportion of people working or actively looking for work, is only around 50%. Government jobs offer security which is why 24 million applied for 120,000 vacancies in Indian Railways. Also, salaries are much higher for government workers than in the private sector. A World Bank survey showed that from 1995-2000, the average annual salary of a government employee in the UK was 1.4 times the average British citizen's income. For Indonesia it was 1.0 times, for Singapore it was 2.9 times, while for India it was a whopping 4.8 times the average annual income of the Indian citizen. That is why those with PhD degrees applied for posts of peons in UP and for post of mortuary attendants, considered unclean by Hindus, at a government medical college in Kolkata. Not surprising that young people want the government to control businesses and to increase jobs in the public sector. "To be able to work 996 is a huge bliss," said Jack Ma, China's richest man. Meaning from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. "An average employee in Mumbai works 3,315 hours a year -- which is more than any other place on earth, a study by Swiss investment bank UBS has found." Government control of business allows politicians to misuse public funds for political gain. It is like the story of the Monkey's Paw.