 My only question will be why is there so much of unemployment happening and only the rich are becoming richer and the poor are becoming poorer. When they came in power they promised us it would be a free land of insurgency but we can see it increasingly by day. So I would like to ask them what they have done to change what they promised us. Everybody, even us, not even us, even our parents are afraid to go out late or even do some works and all know when they do something like I don't know what I don't know what the government has done but nobody is like free you know free to do whatever they want so I want to access what they have they done for us and what are they planning to do for us. My name is Nandeshwari Samjit Sabham and right now I'm doing my master of technology in electronics in NIT Manipur. I'm Dr. Inlira Khairapam. I'm a general dentist and I'm currently practicing at Romi Health Care Pangai right now. I am Nandita Nong Phombom and currently pursuing master's in English in Rajiv Gandhi University in Arunachal. I feel Manipur is a very different state from others because we have like so many communities and also we need we feel the need of involvement for every individual like to bring development but the level of involvement for the youths as well as the growing up grown up adults and all they are the participation is very less I guess because here we feel that if someone is involved in these things like they are not very good and all I don't know but people can see that way but in recent past years like this election this coming election I I can see the involvement of youths very well like even in going for campaigns and all the youths have played a major role and even in social medias and all the youth plays a major role and as for the involvement of women I see a vast changes in the involvement of women yeah there are women involved in bureaucracy as well as and also in execution in all but yeah and legislature the percentage of women involved as for the past years it's not very much but we have seen this year we have seen many women candidates coming out yeah that's a good sign. From what I have seen during this past BGP rule they were very biased so and I have faced some problems quite myself personally on that also so I prefer Congress over it. This is going to be my first time voting for the election so but then when Congress was in like when Congress was ruling before the BGP came there was not so much of an issue of getting jobs or it's not just about jobs means like we didn't have to be that much scared of going out here and there certain things as a girl as a woman so but now the BGP are ruling there are certain crimes that's happening and now it's not just about our safety but it's more about if we talk about education also there are issues that how do I say because of corruption to be very frank. This is gonna be my first time voting the election and like as I've seen and I've experienced I feel no particular party is like giving opinion for girls giving spaces for girls they put many things for girls in their manifestos I have seen that and even today I have seen like scooty for every girl child in the colleges yeah I have seen that it's a manifesto by BJP I think but I have not seen anything any party doing work properly regarding the woman in the society and what the woman had faces know what woman faces and all they haven't stand properly for women even once. What I felt was when Congress was ruling we thought the there was still corruption back then also but then now it have like tremendously increased so much. I've seen manifestos providing spaces for LGBTQ community and all that's good that's like I think it's very happy to have manifestos. No I don't but we'll see because we have like for the past few years people have been electing the same people who won't do anything no this time the people the involvement is very high. I think in Manipur the party election party best election is not that appropriate it depends upon the candidate yeah it depends upon the candidate like even in high school A.C. so there's Thonaram Brindha yeah people are very supportive of her even though she did not go into she won I don't know what party she wanted to enter but she went to JDU so prior to her what to say political party announcement people were very supportive even now they are very supportive so it's not the part political parties that we are voting for we are voting for the candidates. The woman candidates who are coming up they feel that they are not competent enough to lead the people that's what the society thinks so people usually don't go for woman candidates to vote for them that's what I feel like from the society what I've been hearing in this past year this is my second time voting so last time they were talking about it what will a woman do when she leads the state that's what the thinking is. It's not a thing in terms of a man or woman who is a competent candidate according to you to fulfill your you know your generations desire what kind of definitions what kind of calibers what kind of qualities should a politician have to be your ideal politician. I think somebody who is quite educated and who can speak up for themselves you know and not have somebody else speak for them as a student I think somebody who is quite educated is very important. Someone empathetic empathetic in the sense that someone who can connect with the people yeah education is a must but I feel that someone empathetic someone who can connect the people who can know what the people wants and who can understand what is good and what is bad is very important. Right now we have so many candidates who had like doctorate degrees who have who are retired from high officials and all we have all that but I think empathy is a very important quality that every candidate must have. When we when we started Book Club Info we like we focused on the youths and their talents and all. In Manipur like the the the high officials and all the bureaucrats and all they don't go for talents they don't that try to like know the potential of the youths they just they try to suppress us so I feel that someone who can like bring all the potential in us is a very must. The youths are actively participating right now they're discussing all these things wherever like there's a discussion it's only about this like what can be changed and what needs to be changed most of it. Now when the election is coming around means like the the candidates who are electing the candidates so they are quite active in involvement with the people like of their constituency but when election gets over or when there is a gap between the election you know before the election. For the five years they don't involve that much with the people so I want them to have little involvement with the people. Consistent yeah yeah yeah be consistent because we can see them coming only when the election is quite near they don't do that when the election is over. We often discuss this no like will you get a job in Manipur because it's it's where it all started so yeah I'm planning to come back here in Manipur and like start a life here so yes because yeah we need to do something if we all go I don't know who will bring the change it's like small steps matter so I think we can settle here. I actually was studying outside for quite a long only for my master I'm here because of corona I couldn't go out but since the like study that I'm doing like the subject that I'm doing it will be little difficult for me to get a job here but I want to try for being a professor here in Manipur because the amount of lady professor in our college is quite less so yeah I want to come back. I'm not satisfied with the rate of the change but small steps are coming up that's I'm happy with that we can expect more in the coming elections that's all I can say we cannot bring up changes directly from where we were.